6950/6970 dilemma

[TheRagnarok]

I don't post much, but I am here everyday. Anyways I was looking for some advice on my GPUs. I have a XFX 6950 with unlocked shaders/stable and I recently bought an ASIS XFX 6970 on Ebay, RMA'd, and they sent me a new 6970 in the retail box!...... Should I keep the 6970 and crossfire, or sell em both and get a 7970 ?.... Thanks for looking.

[kenkickr]

What resolution and games do you play with. I have a 6970 crossfire setup and play my current games (Dead Space 3, Dishonored, and Dirt 3) and 5760 x 1080 without issues. Mine are OC'd to 950Mhz core and 1425 ram. The only issue I see is with crossfiring a 6950 unlocked with a 6970 the core and ram speed are going to be set to the lowest(6950) speeds. If you can OC that 6950 to 6970 speeds or more and play at 1080 I think you'll like what you have.

[eidairaman1]

Originally Posted by TheRagnarok

I don't post much, but I am here everyday. Anyways I was looking for some advice on my GPUs. I have a XFX 6950 with unlocked shaders/stable and I recently bought an ASIS XFX 6970 on Ebay, RMA'd, and they sent me a new 6970 in the retail box!...... Should I keep the 6970 and crossfire, or sell em both and get a 7970 ?.... Thanks for looking.

Give us the entire build sheet of your computer and we might be able to answer your question better

[Pehla]

hmm. that would be dilema for me too..
realy dont know what would i do!! bot options rocks the house.. what ever u do u will enjoy that's for sure..

[TheRagnarok]

My system specs has been updated, and I play at 1900x1200. Jeez you must be using 3 monitors to push that res! And ive had the 6950 oced to 900 stable/950 stable-ish with voltage bump, also, both cards have 2gb of VRAM each.

[TheRagnarok]

Well I opened the card up so its not new anymore, my power supply only has two 2 x 6 pin connectors so I found an old 2 x molex to 6 pin pcie, and I wired up the second one with and old PSUs 6 pin, and added 2 extra pins by cutting a 4 pin cpu power connector in half.... I don't think these adapters are rated to spec so ill be getting a new psu SOON. But anyways after playing around in Crysis I think I'm going to keep these cards. Also, prolly cheaper to keep them as I paid $300 for the 6950 at launch and $136 for the 6970 (including the shipping to XFX RMA center), I took a big risk buying this thing on ebay.
Also, Also, I may get http://www.amazon.com/ATI-CrossFire-...7I?ref=prid-20 to move the 6950 down to the other 16x slot ( its in a 4x slot so I dont know really know if this will impact performance much )



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[Pehla]

i never use crosfire befoer but i think u only need one bridge for ur setup?!?!
i dont know if that other bridge can interfeere with setup..

[Aquinus]

Originally Posted by Pehla

i never use crosfire befoer but i think u only need one bridge for ur setup?!?!
i dont know if that other bridge can interfeere with setup..

It doesn't make a difference. CFX in the end only uses one of them for 2-way CFX. One of the installed bridges is just inactive.