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Upgrade from 6950

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I've an MSI 2 gig afterburner 6950 shaders unlocked and running 1.2v with 900 core and 1375 memory. I am thinking of upgrading to maybe an Nvidia card a 6600 ti or an amd 270x. My cpu is a 6100bd overclocked to 4.2 gig.

Mainly play Mechwarrior online or battlefield 4, Crysis 3 doesn't seem to play well. Any advice welcomed, budget £160. Thanks.
 
Thing is Crysis 3 plays poorly, not sure if card is working correctly or if 6100bd is awful and I'd be better going piledriver route?
 
If you have a good power supply 700 watts or better you could grab a second hand 6950 and crossfire getting 280x performance ish for a 50-£60 outlay but it will eat like 500 watts +.

Only cards worth upgrading to would be 7950 3gb 7970 or 280x or gtx 760/670/680 the gtx 760 is 2gb vram though I'd look at making sure to get 3gb or more onboard vram in whichever card you get.
 
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My PSU is a 500W Corsair Modular. Is a 6100BD chip at 4.2 gig any good? or is that slowing my gaming down?
 
I have just upgraded from a 6970 to an R9 270X.

Whilst the upgrade to some seems a little pointless, I have seen plenty of GPU benchmarks for BF4 where the 270X is getting nearly double the frame rates of a 6970, let alone a 6950. With Mantle on the way this will improve yet further, which is not available on a 6 series card.

Check this out - http://www.techspot.com/review/734-battlefield-4-benchmarks/page3.html

270X is pretty much matching a 7950 and that is for a standard edition card.

I went for the Powercolor Devil edition. Overclocked out of the box with very good cooling. Should easily match a 7950. Currently £157.99 with both BF4 and an AMD Ruby code (4 games). Warranty is dealt entirely by OcUK so perfect peace of mind.
 
PapaLazaru said:
I have just upgraded from a 6970 to an R9 270X.
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Thanks for that info. What cpu do you have though? my motherboard is not utilizing the memory correctly either. I have some Patriot ram 2100 and it down clocks it to 1600 despite there being a profile for it. I've fired some extra voltage at it but the board has stuck 2 fingers up in my direction.

The ram used to run at 2100 mhz in my old FM2 set up. Is my CPU going to limit the 270X?
 
I have an ageing Phenom 965BE. I think the 278X ia about as good as I will get before I start seeing a bottleneck. It was running well with the 6970.

I would not worry about the RAM too much, it makes minimal difference. Mine runs at 1600Mhz.

It's a good card but beware as the price of £157.99 is temporary and so are the codes, which effectively bring the price down to less than £130 as I can get £25.00 odd for them in the members market. It is by far the cheapest 270X available and it is clocked out of the box.

Should see smooth 60FPS+ in high settings on BF4.
 
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