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Upgrade from HD6950?

adamgwsmith

adamgwsmith

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If I sell my HD6950 I'll have a budget of around £300.

Can I get a significant upgrade for this? Is it worth it?

What would you recommend? Current setup in sig.

Cheers!
 
I have no idea what you could get, but I have that card (unlocked and clocked) and play games at 1200p with ease. If you have a 1440p screen or have eyefinity then an upgrade makes sense.

You really would be upgrading just for the sake of it otherwise.
 
adamgwsmith said:
If I sell my HD6950 I'll have a budget of around £300.

Can I get a significant upgrade for this? Is it worth it?

What would you recommend? Current setup in sig.

Cheers!
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Considered a 7950? I upgraded from a 570 gtx to the 7950 and saw a big difference. You can also oc the 7950 to match a 670.
 
Geo-Gamer said:
I upgraded from a 570 gtx to the 7950 and saw a big difference.
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A big difference? Really? An overclocked 570 can reach 580 speeds and a 7950 is roughly around the same speed as a 580, give or take a few fps here and there. I think your "big difference" differs significantly from mine tbh.

Honestly though, for 1080p a 6950 should still be able to cut it pretty well. I'd be waiting until at least the next generation of cards before upgrading, unless of course that money is burning a big hole in your pocket ;)
 
coupe69 said:
A big difference? Really? An overclocked 570 can reach 580 speeds and a 7950 is roughly around the same speed as a 580, give or take a few fps here and there. I think your "big difference" differs significantly from mine tbh.

Honestly though, for 1080p a 6950 should still be able to cut it pretty well. I'd be waiting until at least the next generation of cards before upgrading, unless of course that money is burning a big hole in your pocket ;)
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Well bf3 on ultra on my 570 struggled to keep at a constant 60 fps+ and the low VRAM didn't help either. With the 7950 it's pretty much a 60-90 fps, and yes now and then dips in the 50.

But yes I agree where you are coming from and it is on par with 580 but the oc potential on the 7950 when reached 1150 MHz sits next to the 670 on benchmarks.
 
If your gaming@1080p, then I don't think you are going to be that impressed regardless what team you pick, unless you persuade yourself otherwise.

If you have the itch then there's not much going to stop you from waiting until next gen where you should see some real gains(unless it's another shifty +15% improvement like 58/69, 4/5 series).

cobbly123 said:
Just sold 2 6950(full 6970 bios) and gone to a HIS 7950 turbo everything feels a lot smoother and cost nothing to change :)
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I'm gutted mine are gone, they were great clockers, don't notice the 'smoother' everybody talks about going from(a well setup;)) CrossFire to single gpu setup, and they were noticeably faster than my 7970@1160MHz, BF3 mins had at least +10 fps faster.

The only reason they got split was because of a couple of 3D titles not scaling at all(despite scaling properly in 2D with said titles), and a modded Skyrim that broke 2Gb.
 
tommybhoy said:
If your gaming@1080p, then I don't think you are going to be that impressed regardless what team you pick, unless you persuade yourself otherwise.
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Exactly!

You're going to struggle to find a game out there that brings your 6950 to its knees at 1080P, unless you turn silly amounts of eye candy on.
It's not like days of olde when a single generation upgrade would turn a previously unplayable game into playable.

Hopefully when Sony and Microsoft get a grip with their next generation of consoles things may start moving a little quicker again....
 
coupe69 said:
A big difference? Really? An overclocked 570 can reach 580 speeds and a 7950 is roughly around the same speed as a 580, give or take a few fps here and there. I think your "big difference" differs significantly from mine tbh.

Honestly though, for 1080p a 6950 should still be able to cut it pretty well. I'd be waiting until at least the next generation of cards before upgrading, unless of course that money is burning a big hole in your pocket ;)
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This.. Good advice ..
 
Thanks for all the advice everyone - much appreciated.

Seems sensible to stay with what I have for now and upgrade to a 8950 or whatever the next equivalent is.

Thanks again.
 
is your 6950 running at stock speeds?

wind it up a bit :)

currently running my 6970 @1250/1400 and it handles everything I throw at it at 1080p

your 50 is pretty similar to my 70 so I wouldn't expect it to be far off with a bit of clocking
 
Delta12 said:
is your 6950 running at stock speeds?

wind it up a bit :)

currently running my 6970 @1250/1400 and it handles everything I throw at it at 1080p

your 50 is pretty similar to my 70 so I wouldn't expect it to be far off with a bit of clocking
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40% overclock on a 6970? wow, is that on the stock cooler?
 
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