What Graphics Card(s) Should My Brother Get?

[Karlos_the_n00b]

It was indeed me, it's from Techpowerup.com LINK.

Damn it, just found it too, Cheers anyway SieB

Original thread we where discussing it in: http://forum.overclo...ed/page__st__20

Also found these:

http://www.techpower...rozr_II/32.html

http://www.guru3d.co...ii-oc-review/23

http://www.techpower...ozr_III/27.html

In summery, 6950 twin frozr 2 very likely not, 6950 twin frozr 3 YES!

Me now really want 6950 Twin Frozr III!

Hope this helps

 

[KapteinFruit]

It was indeed me, it's from Techpowerup.com LINK.

Thanks for the link and great work. I was really hoping that MSI would be good at unlocking which they are. So now we're thinking about two MSI 6950's with the Twin Frozr III cooler. What do you think?

 

[SieB]

If it was me I would just go for one 580 and add another one down the line. Two 6950's might be more powerful but one 580 is more than enough for one screen at 1920x1080 and in about a year to two years time when the 580 struggles running games you could add another or just buy a new more powerful card. That is what i would do anyway I have never been interested in running two cards I would rather just buy one high end card and do with out all the CF/SLI hassle.

 

[Karlos_the_n00b]

If it was me I would just go for one 580 and add another one down the line. Two 6950's might be more powerful but one 580 is more than enough for one screen at 1920x1080 and in about a year to two years time when the 580 struggles running games you could add another or just buy a new more powerful card. That is what i would do anyway I have never been interested in running two cards I would rather just buy one high end card and do with out all the CF/SLI hassle.

@SieB /cough 890FX /cough no sli

 

[SieB]

@SieB /cough 890FX /cough no sli

Oh, he said he was thinking of two MSI 6950s I just assumed he meant SLI.

If it's a single card then I would definietly go with the 580 if you can afford it, otherwise the 6950.

 

[Karlos_the_n00b]

Oh, he said he was thinking of two MSI 6950s I just assumed he meant SLI.

If it's a single card then I would definietly go with the 580 if you can afford it, otherwise the 6950.

No mate. Whilst most the Intel boards atm support both SLI and Crossfire, the AMD boards of late only support Crossfire.

You might have been confused by the first page where some of us where telling him to run SLI before knowing what board he was using.

 

[muzza1875]

6950 perhaps? i have 2 and they are beast

 

[Luger718]

6950s would be my suggestions

 

[Karlos_the_n00b]

6950s would be my suggestions

If it was my money then I'd be looking at a couple of those 6950 twin frozr 3's and unlock them to 6970's.

That to me sounds a mint setup for what your getting for your money.

 

[SieB]

No mate. Whilst most the Intel boards atm support both SLI and Crossfire, the AMD boards of late only support Crossfire.

You might have been confused by the first page where some of us where telling him to run SLI before knowing what board he was using.

I know this, but i haven't been following the thread, just the last few posts. In the one I replied to he said "So now we're thinking about two MSI 6950's with the Twin Frozr III cooler." This is why I thought he meant SLI.