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6950 (6970) dead, which replacement?

Mud

Mud

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My ATi 6950 (flashed to 6970) appears to have given up the ghost (28 months old). What's the logical replacement? Really, all I play is a bit of GTR Evolution at ~5000x1600 (3 screens using softTH) which the 6950 did fine. The rest of the system is a Intel [email protected] and 8GB DDR3 running at 1333MHz - I don't really want to downgrade or spend unnecessarily if bottle-necked. Does need 3 digital outputs (2xDVI for Dell 2007FPs, + DVI/displayport for U3011). Quiet is a priority, as is cool-running.

TIA, I've fallen out of the bleeding-edge performance scene :)
 

C64

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I misunderstood what C64 was getting at - thought he was saying the pre-clocked card was pushing the architecture. I agree, no harm will come from arguably overspeccing the card slightly.

I thought a cpu at 2.8 ghz could bottleneck a 7950 is all, guess I was wrong pretty sure that would bottleneck a 7970 though.

I just don't think the 7950 or 7970 are worth the price tag seeing as they have been out a good while now I wouldn't pay much more than £200 for a 7950.

The msi 7950 is £218 though so I'd get that I guess.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/GPU12/372 is a good benchmarking comparison site you can compare all the cards 2012 and 2013.

If you want a cheaper option that matches a 6970 then a 7850/7870 would do the job and be faster in newer games.
 
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