Replacement nvidia card for my 6950?

[morkfromork]

Just bought an LG W2363D-PF 3d monitor for gaming on. At the moment i have an msi 6950 2048 card but this is not compatable for the 3d part.

Is there a card that is equal to the 6950 2048 or twin cards that run as fast from nvidia that i can buy. Would have to sell my 6950 but not really looking to spend much more to change.

Still not sure i want to do 3d yet but would be nice to know what i could get if i wanted to try.

 

[mickyflinn]

Just bought an LG W2363D-PF 3d monitor for gaming on. At the moment i have an msi 6950 2048 card but this is not compatable for the 3d part.

AMD HD3D technology is enabled on ATI Radeon HD 5000 Series GPUs and above using Catalyst 10.10 or later, however Bu-ray 3D playback is only supported on AMD Radeon HD 6000 series GPUs and above.


http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/amd-hd3d/Pages/gaming.aspx

 

[morkfromork]

The lg screen i have only supports nvidia 3d not ati though.

 

[Freddie1980]

For the same around about the same performance and considering your going 3D your looking a GTX570 1.2Gb. There was one going for £240 but I don't know if it's still on offer or not the 560TI 2Gb is also a decent card, with some overclocking you can 6950 type performance.

 

[tommybhoy]

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-146-GW&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1341

This card could fare better than the 570 in the likes of BF3.

Crysis 2, Rage(with the 2Gb config), DA 2, Metro, new Metro, Shogun 2 etc, should perform better as well due to the extra vram:

Iirc the extra vram helps with 3D gaming as well(maybe someone here could advise you).

They overclock like champs!

That would be my choice over the 570 as now you need as much vram as possible with DX11 titles, yes even at 1920:

 

[Terrier_Jimlad]

^^ that screenshot doesnt make sense, the R6950 TFIII is a 2GB card not 1GB?

 

[tommybhoy]

^ It's the new 1GB version:
http://hardocp.com/article/2011/10/17/msi_r6950_1gb_twin_frozr_iii_power_edition_review

 

[BlackBat]

This is what I'd suggest, faster clocked than the Phantom, £5 cheaper, takes up two instead of three slots and AFAIK has UK RMA if anything goes wrong.