[S3phro]

Heya Guys,

Currently shopping for a new gpu setup..

I was pretty set on a pair of twin frozr III 560ti's or 6950 twin frozr IIIs..

But after seeing the 6870x2 benchmarks It's pretty impressive..

I'll be looking at running eyefinity/surround on 3x23" monitors so it'll be running a pretty high resolution on games like Rift, BC2 etc..

Thoughts?

 

[N3Xus]

Go for Crossfired 2GB 6950's. Awesome scaling(almost 2x performance as single card) and 2GB of VRAM for high res gaming.

 

[S3phro]

Pretty much what I was thinking, plus the twin frozr III's overclock like a boss..

 

[frannyvox]

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Originally Posted by N3Xus;14176407
Go for Crossfired 2GB 6950's. Awesome scaling(almost 2x performance as single card) and 2GB of VRAM for high res gaming.

Agreed. These cards really are the best for CF scaling. It's just great to have two of them.

EDIT: YES, the TwinFrozr III does OC very nicely.

 

[goldcrow]

6950 crossfire no question. 2gb vram will really help push games on a 5760x1080 resolution.

 

[Farih]

6950 CF

but dont think you can play rift in all its glory with 3x23inch screens though
when i had 6950 CF i could just do rift at max settings on 1920x1080

 

[Razi3l]

6950 2GB CF will be much better than the other two options.

 

[WhitePrQjser]

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Originally Posted by Farih;14176461
6950 CF

but dont think you can play rift in all its glory with 3x23inch screens though
when i had 6950 CF i could just do rift at max settings on 1920x1080

Uhm, I built a system for a friend of mine with a Phenom II X4 955 BE, and a single 2Gb. HD6950, and he runs Rift maxed out at 1920x1080, so there's something wrong...

 

[N3Xus]

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Originally Posted by S3phro;14176420
Pretty much what I was thinking, plus the twin frozr III's overclock like a boss..

MSI TFIII's ftw! They also have the BIOS switch if you wish to unlock to 6970.

 

[supra_rz]

6950 for me , 2gb vram + amazing scaling = win

 

[NineteenEleven]

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Originally Posted by N3Xus;14176513
MSI TFIII's ftw! They also have the BIOS switch if you wish to unlock to 6970.

the BIOS switch you refer too is for fan profiles, it doesnt unlock it to the 6970 shaders.

you can flash your BIOS to the 6970 but there is not "fall back" option when you do so.

Also i have 2x 6950 twin frozrs and im very happy with it, they handle any game currently on the market excellent with no OC.

 

[N3Xus]

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Originally Posted by NineteenEleven;14176587
the BIOS switch you refer too is for fan profiles

Ah I remember seeing somewhere that it was the BIOS switch.

 

[NineteenEleven]

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Originally Posted by N3Xus;14176624
Ah I remember seeing somewhere that it was the BIOS switch.

only on reference models.