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Nocky24 · 16 Dec 2010 at 15:55

Option 3.

Bad Company 2 seems to favour the 570 and nvidia cards in general (based on benchmarks & own experiences).

There's honestly not much in it between the 6970 and 570 though and it basically boils down to price and which games you play. Both are solid cards. The 6970 clinches it at anything over 1080p though imo.

The 6950 is worth some consideration though if you're willing to overclock and go xfire later

RavenXXX2 · 16 Dec 2010 at 15:57

Skyrocket said:
miss information

For a start we can't adjust voltage on the 69** cards yet as there is no voltage tweaking software so how would one know how far it clocks or scales unless one was talking out of ones backside.

Mr Krugga · 16 Dec 2010 at 15:59

Gibbo said:
Option 2. 6950 and overclock it, then buy another one at a later date.

MichaelM · 16 Dec 2010 at 16:22

Get a 6950 to **** off Skyrocket

kmufc77 · 16 Dec 2010 at 16:26

option 3

Gibbo · 16 Dec 2010 at 16:27

NEW OPTION 4.

Pair of 5850's for £250 from OcUK!

jigger · 16 Dec 2010 at 16:32

Gibbo said:
NEW OPTION 4.

Pair of 5850's for £250 from OcUK!

Oh you *"*"*"*"

Hmmm more decisions...

Jakus · 16 Dec 2010 at 16:35

Actually looking at Your option spread the really sensible thing to do would be to pick up a 5870

Purgatory · 16 Dec 2010 at 17:09

2 of these MSI ATI Radeon HD 5850 Twin FrozR II 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card if you are willing to crossfire.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-103-MS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=411

basically same performance as a 5970 at less then £250 all new and better components and cooling

Or the ati 5870 is a bargain now and is really same performance as a 6950. If you dont want to crossfire.

6970 is a bit over priced and I really only see it as a 5875 sort of update...

If you want cuda and physx go for the 570 cracking card for the price and performance.

Rroff · 16 Dec 2010 at 17:14

Option 3... or if you want something right now instead of waiting for stock:

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-066-GI&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=1810

Exsurgo · 16 Dec 2010 at 17:14

Option 2 or Option 4. Option 4 if you have decent case cooling and PSU.

[WU-TANG]GZA · 16 Dec 2010 at 17:35

Case cooling and psu all in my sig.

Hmmm stop giving me options Gibbo !!

Although the reason why I got the TX950 from OcUK in the first place was to xfire/SLI - I don't think I want to.

Think I would rather single card it up....

I think I would rather the 6950 over the 5870 due to 2GB memory and newer tech....even though 5870 does outperform it currently.

Jeez...just not easy.......

opethdisciple · 16 Dec 2010 at 17:42

[WU-TANG]GZA;18016898 said:
Case cooling and psu all in my sig.

Hmmm stop giving me options Gibbo !!

Although the reason why I got the TX950 from OcUK in the first place was to xfire/SLI - I don't think I want to.

Think I would rather single card it up....

I think I would rather the 6950 over the 5870 due to 2GB memory and newer tech....even though 5870 does outperform it currently.

Jeez...just not easy.......

How come your not going higher than 3.4Ghz on your i7?

[WU-TANG]GZA · 16 Dec 2010 at 18:05

opethdisciple said:
How come your not going higher than 3.4Ghz on your i7?

Not really felt the need. Don't think it's bottlenecking anything at 3.4Ghz

When it's a bit older and 16 cores are out then I'll put it to 4.0 or 4.2ghz or w/e u can get these to on air....

Marine-RX179 · 16 Dec 2010 at 18:14

[WU-TANG]GZA;18017102 said:
Not really felt the need. Don't think it's bottlenecking anything at 3.4Ghz

Except for Black OPs

While i7 at 3.4GHz is faster than Phenom II X4 at 4.0GHz for gaming, you might benefit clocking higher if you are using a fast graphic card as if you do get a GTX570 and overclock it to 850/900MHz, your i7 at 3.4GHz might be some what holding it back in some slightly more CPU demanding games.

OLDPHART · 16 Dec 2010 at 19:43

Option 5 > x2 570's

[WU-TANG]GZA · 16 Dec 2010 at 20:48

OLDPHART said:
Option 5 > x2 570's

Erm.....no

EDIT: plus if I was going to do that it would be 2 6970s. Not 2 570s

Basill · 16 Dec 2010 at 21:04

Would have to be between the 6950 & 570, 6950 if your using more than 1 screen and if your not i would pick the 570.

AgedIdiot · 16 Dec 2010 at 21:04

Depends on what exactly your looking for - in order of cost :-

1.Stick with what you have
2.5850 - very good price and a good boost on your 4890.
3. Cheapest new tech. - 6950
4. 6970 or 570 - not much difference between the two - if , for whatever reason, you prefer one over the other then go for that one.

You can always , if cards are still available, crossfire/sli later .

Skyrocket · 16 Dec 2010 at 21:04

RavenXXX2 said:
For a start we can't adjust voltage on the 69** cards yet as there is no voltage tweaking software so how would one know how far it clocks or scales unless one was talking out of ones backside.

Scaling is the same as on 5870 series = ie a bit pants.
Considering that 69##=58##+fast mem+stick on tesselators.
It's a given fact that they scale pretty poorly when oc.
A 389mm core gpu ain't going to scale as good as a 500mm core.
it's simple physics.

Fact number 2

Look at thech Review for oc results.
4% oc without voltage. That's beyond crap, that's epic.
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/HIS/Radeon_HD_6970/32.html