Joe Canadian Posted May 25, 2012 Member ID: 822 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 87 Topic Count: 317 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5477 Content Per Day: 0.97 Reputation: 5025 Achievement Points: 42632 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 20 Joined: 12/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 25, 2023 Birthday: 03/01/1967 Posted May 25, 2012 I am looking for a new graphics card with at least 2GB of memory and was wondering which one I should get. Don't really want to spend more than $200... Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 OC 820MHZ 2GB 5.0 GBPS GDDR5 XFX Radeon HD 6950 800 MHZ 2GB 5.0GHZ DDR5 or Galaxy GeForce GTX 560 GC 850Mhz 2048MB 4GHz DDR5 Galaxy GeForce GTX 550 Ti GC 900MHZ 2GB DDR5 3.9GHZ DDR5 I would appreciate your feedback Thanks! Awards
Blackbart Posted May 25, 2012 Member ID: 51 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 51 Topic Count: 342 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5974 Content Per Day: 1.04 Reputation: 3766 Achievement Points: 45818 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 27, 2021 Birthday: 06/26/1949 Posted May 25, 2012 This is the same card that I'm running in my new puter...XFX Radeon HD 6950 800 MHZ 2GB 5.0GHZ DDR5... :) Awards
Markoff Posted May 25, 2012 Member ID: 54 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 90 Topic Count: 497 Topics Per Day: 0.09 Content Count: 4547 Content Per Day: 0.79 Reputation: 2331 Achievement Points: 32363 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 5 hours ago Birthday: 03/17/1965 Device: Windows Posted May 25, 2012 iv'e got the Sapphire Radeon HD 6950 OC 820MHZ 2GB 5.0 GBPS GDDR5 all i can say is what a differents it made to my game play i love it ....................... Awards
Joe Canadian Posted May 25, 2012 Member ID: 822 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 87 Topic Count: 317 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5477 Content Per Day: 0.97 Reputation: 5025 Achievement Points: 42632 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 20 Joined: 12/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 25, 2023 Birthday: 03/01/1967 Author Posted May 25, 2012 Thanks Bart and Markoff, I think I will be getting the Radeon 6950, just wondering if the Galaxy GeForce GTX 560 GC 850Mhz 2048MB 4GHz DDR5 is as fast or a comparable card. Awards
Merlin007 Posted May 25, 2012 Member ID: 2068 Group: +++ COD5 Head Admin Followers: 71 Topic Count: 1127 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 8583 Content Per Day: 1.64 Reputation: 7547 Achievement Points: 76572 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 67 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 19 hours ago Birthday: 05/23/1973 Device: Windows Posted May 25, 2012 This is the same card that I'm running in my new puter...XFX Radeon HD 6950 800 MHZ 2GB 5.0GHZ DDR5... :) I am running the XFX 6950 as well. Solid card for the money that should keep up for a while. Awards
simplemod Posted May 25, 2012 Member ID: 623 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1072 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 417 Achievement Points: 7809 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 27, 2018 Birthday: 10/26/1982 Posted May 25, 2012 Thanks Bart and Markoff, I think I will be getting the Radeon 6950, just wondering if the Galaxy GeForce GTX 560 GC 850Mhz 2048MB 4GHz DDR5 is as fast or a comparable card. cant remember which post it was in, but somebody just ordered that card in the last couple days. I think maybe Dean ordered it.
tsw 8.5 Posted May 26, 2012 Member ID: 906 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 144 Topic Count: 537 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 17544 Content Per Day: 3.12 Reputation: 42645 Achievement Points: 151942 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 691 Joined: 12/20/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 52 minutes ago Birthday: 11/30/1960 Device: Windows Posted May 26, 2012 i have the 560 ti 448 classifed..EVGA and the card is great ..runs any game out there ... Exe 1 Awards
Cylon Posted May 27, 2012 Member ID: 2447 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 13 Topic Count: 24 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 306 Content Per Day: 0.06 Reputation: 226 Achievement Points: 2172 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/01/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 20, 2023 Birthday: 09/07/1993 Posted May 27, 2012 Personally I love the Radeon series but I have been thinking about switching to nvidia Awards
shooter Posted May 27, 2012 Member ID: 459 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 23 Topic Count: 75 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 776 Content Per Day: 0.14 Reputation: 401 Achievement Points: 5416 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/20/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 29, 2022 Posted May 27, 2012 i'm still running everything with the radeon HD 5850. bought it 2 years ago and still running strong. the 6950 is the latest one and strongest but for me there aint no need for it yet.
Xtreme Posted May 28, 2012 Member ID: 3095 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 1 Topic Count: 16 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 188 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 115 Achievement Points: 1277 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/29/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 10, 2013 Birthday: 02/14/1963 Posted May 28, 2012 Why do you insist on a 2GB card? Memory is only useful if you play at very high resolutions, the processing speed of the GPU is the most important feature on a video card hands down. For most folks and most games a 1GB card is sufficient. The 6950 is an excellent card but about $50 more than the 6870 and only a few fps faster. I picked up my 6870 for $150 and it runs everything I throw at it with ease. I still think it's the best bang/buck card out there today.
Exe Posted May 28, 2012 Member ID: 2567 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 52 Topic Count: 41 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2904 Content Per Day: 0.57 Reputation: 983 Achievement Points: 17120 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 06/08/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: Sunday at 07:40 PM Birthday: 12/11/1986 Device: Windows Posted May 28, 2012 Why do you insist on a 2GB card? Memory is only useful if you play at very high resolutions, the processing speed of the GPU is the most important feature on a video card hands down. For most folks and most games a 1GB card is sufficient. Yes you're right! But maybe he's running with a 2560x1440 or more. What's your screen Joe? Awards
Joe Canadian Posted May 28, 2012 Member ID: 822 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 87 Topic Count: 317 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5477 Content Per Day: 0.97 Reputation: 5025 Achievement Points: 42632 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 20 Joined: 12/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 25, 2023 Birthday: 03/01/1967 Author Posted May 28, 2012 xtreme: I usually buy a new video card every 2 years and then sell them, so I just sold my XFX Radeon HD 6790 for $90 and bought a EVGA GeForce GTX 560 ti fermi with 2 GB of memory. I was about $45 cheaper than the XFX Radeon 6950. Both cards seem to be pretty good and the specs comparable. My CPU is an AMD quad core and I have 16GB of memory. exe: I have an LG 23" LED backlit and don't plan to upgrade in the near future as this is the size of monitor I like for gaming. So I am running my games at 1920 x 1080. Not sure if I could go any higher with COD2, COD4, and COD5 unless I get a bigger monitor that is. Gotta invest in technology when you have nasty enemies such as the pimp, ferzulo, dean, larsin, ratcamper etc. :-) Will see how it goes, I have been pretty unlucky with my gaming keyboards and headsets so far. I love the razer lycosa but have to do a RMA and get a new one every six months or so. Thank you guys for your feedback!!! Awards
Exe Posted May 28, 2012 Member ID: 2567 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 52 Topic Count: 41 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2904 Content Per Day: 0.57 Reputation: 983 Achievement Points: 17120 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 06/08/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: Sunday at 07:40 PM Birthday: 12/11/1986 Device: Windows Posted May 28, 2012 exe: I have an LG 23" LED backlit and don't plan to upgrade in the near future as this is the size of monitor I like for gaming. So I am running my games at 1920 x 1080. Not sure if I could go any higher with COD2, COD4, and COD5 unless I get a bigger monitor that is. Gotta invest in technology when you have nasty enemies such as the pimp, ferzulo, dean, larsin, ratcamper etc. :-) Ok, so 1gb memory seems to be enough but you do what you want your choice ^^ No need to invest in technology for those guys... Just skills and a good uav... Guess Shooter sells it on another topic... Awards
SCooBY>XI< Posted May 28, 2012 Member ID: 3233 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 15 Topic Count: 29 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 334 Content Per Day: 0.07 Reputation: 40 Achievement Points: 2030 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 02/23/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 28, 2013 Birthday: 04/09/1967 Posted May 28, 2012 Both companies make great cards atm so you could do well going either way --- As you may Know I recently built a new machine to play the latest games --- I went with an AmD /ATI build (see my post ---"time to upgrade again " for components --- every game I throw at the black edition 7870 --it laughs at on max settings and the card has never gone over 40 C Bf3 runs on ultra (all settings maxed ) average of 120 -140 fps Looking forward to see what it can do on --Guildwars 2 with large (100 + people ) clan wars on screen at once !!! Look for a price drop on these cards in June as ATI pushes their 7970 cards the 7870's will drop considerably ---with minor overclocking they blow away most of the 7970 's atm Good reviews on toms hardware and 3d guru for them .
Xtreme Posted May 31, 2012 Member ID: 3095 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 1 Topic Count: 16 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 188 Content Per Day: 0.04 Reputation: 115 Achievement Points: 1277 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 12/29/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 10, 2013 Birthday: 02/14/1963 Posted May 31, 2012 xtreme: I usually buy a new video card every 2 years and then sell them, so I just sold my XFX Radeon HD 6790 for $90 and bought a EVGA GeForce GTX 560 ti fermi with 2 GB of memory. I was about $45 cheaper than the XFX Radeon 6950. Both cards seem to be pretty good and the specs comparable. My CPU is an AMD quad core and I have 16GB of memory. exe: I have an LG 23" LED backlit and don't plan to upgrade in the near future as this is the size of monitor I like for gaming. So I am running my games at 1920 x 1080. Not sure if I could go any higher with COD2, COD4, and COD5 unless I get a bigger monitor that is. Gotta invest in technology when you have nasty enemies such as the pimp, ferzulo, dean, larsin, ratcamper etc. :-) Will see how it goes, I have been pretty unlucky with my gaming keyboards and headsets so far. I love the razer lycosa but have to do a RMA and get a new one every six months or so. Thank you guys for your feedback!!! Every two years is a good upgrade cycle to follow. I try to go about 3 years unless an amazing deal pops up. I'm old and my games are usually pretty old, hell, I still frag on the COD2 server with XI folks. When I get newer games I tend to not run crazy resolutions because for me it's all about FPS and eye candy. Usually my older gen cards will run the latest gen games perfectly fine at good frame rates, nice eye candy but at lower res on my 22" LCD.
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