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Fishymachine · Dec 12, 2011, 05:36 PM

In the case of a 6870, it will hit some sort of GPU-bottleneck long before the need for more than 1GB ... so I think you should either look for a 1GB 6870, or 6950(1GB will suffice even for it at most res) or a GTX560Ti ... and should the 78xx (die shrink of Cayman) hit the store sometimes this month?

Processor:	Athlon II X$ 635
Motherboard:	Asrock 880G Extreme3
Memory:	A-Data 2*2GB 1333 CAS8
Video Card:	HD 4250
Hard Disk:	WD Green 640
PSU:	Nexus RX5300

Dec 12, 2011, 05:36 PM	#8
Fishymachine Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 206 (0.14/day) Thanks: 16 Thanked 9 Times in 9 Posts System Specs	In the case of a 6870, it will hit some sort of GPU-bottleneck long before the need for more than 1GB ... so I think you should either look for a 1GB 6870, or 6950(1GB will suffice even for it at most res) or a GTX560Ti ... and should the 78xx (die shrink of Cayman) hit the store sometimes this month?