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Upgrading from 6950 crossfire - Advice needed

morpheus9394

morpheus9394

morpheus9394

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Hi,
I currently have 2x6950 in crossfire and I am currently to upgrade to one of the new Nvidia Geforce 670/680/690 cards.
I have a 30" monitor running at 2560x1600.
My 6950s are great and I am run 90% of games with full detail but they start to struggle when AA is enabled.
I have £900 to spend to trying to decide whether to go with 2x670, 2x680 or 1x690. Sli and crossfire support in games is not as good as it should be though it seems the Nvidia are doing a better job at making sure SLI drivers are ready when top games are released.
I would love to get just one card but I don't think 1x670/680 will give me enough power to run at 2560x1600 with full detail.
What would you do?
btw- My CPU is a i7 970 OC'ed to 4.2ghz
 
2x670 4GB cards and clock the nuts off them!!

:)

edit// The EVGA 4GB cards come in at £400 a piece, may even find them cheaper if you shop about - you'll still have around £100 left spare.

1 x Windforce has me blown away, wish I could afford SLI!
 
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I would say wait.

As someone who got 6950 crossfire in September or so, then got 2 x 7950, then 2 x7970, I would suggest go without the AA, as it's not that much of a problem at such a high res.

Will shortly be going 2 X GTX 670, but that is simply because I won one in a competition, and my original plan when originally getting P8Z68 system end last year was to eventually go Nvidia + 3770K.

If you really got the cash to spare then sure, go for it, but if you are in the least doubtful, then hang tight til end of year.
 
eyetrip said:
I would say wait.

As someone who got 6950 crossfire in September or so, then got 2 x 7950, then 2 x7970, I would suggest go without the AA, as it's not that much of a problem at such a high res.

Will shortly be going 2 X GTX 670, but that is simply because I won one in a competition, and my original plan when originally getting P8Z68 system end last year was to eventually go Nvidia + 3770K.

If you really got the cash to spare then sure, go for it, but if you are in the least doubtful, then hang tight til end of year.
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You are right. It is just pure greed on my part. There is nothing wrong with my 6950s. You know how it is though......."OOOHHH spare cash, what upgrades can I buy with that?" :D
Can I resist the temptation.......
 
Is the performance that bad when AA is applied? You could try something like morphological AA. That is supposed to be accompanied by a far lower performance hit. :)
 
And having said what I just said....

Found some Windforce 670's at great price, so will be RMAing the ref KFA2 I just got from OcUK, and selling on the one I won, as by the time I added accelero mono coolers, it will land up costing more than the windforces...

OcUK gonna hate me.
 
I had 6950's in Xfire, And i swapped them both for a single 7970.

games run 100% smoother, yes the fps is slightly lower but due to no crossfire microstutter it feels 100% faster

this is on a 30" hazro so my res is max
 
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You are right. It is just pure greed on my part. There is nothing wrong with my 6950s. You know how it is though......."OOOHHH spare cash, what upgrades can I buy with that?"
Can I resist the temptation.......
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I would not buy anything at the moment. I read monday on Techpowerup that ATI are going to release some new 79xx series cards in the near future. If they are any good it may push prices down on the GTX6xx cards.
 
As a 6950 xfire user myself, i say wait. Im keeping these for another year atleast. This gen hasnt lit any fires in my mind to be honest.
 
AMD and Nvidia need to find a better way of scaling multiple GPUs.
In the old 3dfx days, you could just add a second card and you would automatically double performance in every game. Simple and easy.
Anyway, I think you guys are right, I am better off sticking with what I have got for now.
 
I couldn't resist, I upgraded to a Geforce 670 and its amazing.
It is faster than my 2x 6950 combined in every game and it feels smoother too.
I am going to buy another 670 on Monday so I know I will have more than enough grunt to run every game with full detail etc etc at 2560x1600.
It is a great card, very happy.
 
morpheus9394 said:
I couldn't resist, I upgraded to a Geforce 670 and its amazing.
It is faster than my 2x 6950 combined in every game and it feels smoother too.
I am going to buy another 670 on Monday so I know I will have more than enough grunt to run every game with full detail etc etc at 2560x1600.
It is a great card, very happy.
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What make did you buy mate? also 2GB 4GB?
I'm in same boat lol! in bf3, it just don't feel as smooth as it should.
And i have good spec!
What drivers you using?
 
up2nogooduk said:
What make did you buy mate? also 2GB 4GB?
I'm in same boat lol! in bf3, it just don't feel as smooth as it should.
And i have good spec!
What drivers you using?
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I originally bought a Gigabyte Windforce 2GB card but it was faulty and they didn't have any more in stock (not OCUK) so I bought a Palit Jetstream 2GB and it has been rock stock solid, so far.
It runs BF3 like butter. Super smooth at 60fps ultra settings with 8xAA vync on.
Lovely.
Gonna get another next week once the first one has proved itself :D
 
morpheus9394 said:
I originally bought a Gigabyte Windforce 2GB card but it was faulty and they didn't have any more in stock (not OCUK) so I bought a Palit Jetstream 2GB and it has been rock stock solid, so far.
It runs BF3 like butter. Super smooth at 60fps ultra settings with 8xAA vync on.
Lovely.
Gonna get another next week once the first one has proved itself :D
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Nice :)
What settings did you change in the controll centre! ?

Cheers :)
 
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