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~$200 price point-560Ti or Radeon 6950 2 Gb?

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Artista

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As the title says at around the $200 price point, which is the better the Nvidia 560Ti or Radeon 6950 2 Gb? Would it make a difference if the 6950 could/would be flashed with a 6970 bios?

The gtx 560Ti 1 Gb is on sale after MIR for $199.99 the possibly non-flashable Radeon 6950 2 Gb is $189.00

I see a 6950 on newegg for ~$189 that possibly cannot be flashed and one for ~$250 that can be flashed with the 6970 bios. Is that ~$60 worth it in performance if it can be flashed and the cheaper card cannot?

I did see a gtx 570 on sale for ~$260...thats another story I guess. :\

Thanks 😀
 
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Agree. It's either GTX560/HD6870 or HD7850 2GB. The card in the middle just aren't that good bang for buck, just for a little more you can get a 7850 which is in a different world altogether - overclocks like nothing else, consumes the same power as a 6850, has twice the VRAM.
 
lehtv said:
Agree. It's either GTX560/HD6870 or HD7850 2GB. The card in the middle just aren't that good bang for buck, just for a little more you can get a 7850 which is in a different world altogether - overclocks like nothing else, consumes the same power as a 6850, has twice the VRAM.
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Right $190 for a card that performs identical near enough to the 7850 that goes for $60 more I don't get your guy's rational.
 
Gordon Freemen said:
Right $190 for a card that performs identical near enough to the 7850 that goes for $60 more I don't get your guy's rational.
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Except that it doesn't. 7850 consumes 50W less and overclocks 2-3 times better. But on second thought, a 6950 for $200 ($190 AR) is not a bad deal
 
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Don Karnage said:
Why does everyone always recommend last gen cards? Thats like me buying 580's over 670's for 30 dollars less.
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It's a forum wide conspiracy meant to irritate you and make you have doubts about upgrading from a 2500k to a 3570k and then to a 3770k for no significant gains in performance (or, at the very least, it can't possibly be that a $140 AR 6870 has a much better value than a $240 7850). Stay strong.
 
-Slacker- said:
It's a forum wide conspiracy meant to irritate you and make you have doubts about upgrading from a 2500k to a 3570k and then to a 3770k for no significant gains in performance (or, at the very least, it can't possibly be that a $140 AR 6870 has a much better value than a $240 7850). Stay strong.
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I wouldn't doubt it
 
I'm backing up Don on this... Also you will need a card with at least 2GB DDR5 RAM... I checked my performance for BF3 and that game was using 1.5GB of GPU memory gaming at 1920x1200p! D:

KingFatty said:
The 7850 price has got to get closer to $200 soon, it is destiny.
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Yes... I believe so too! 😛
 
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go ATI for 2 reasons

Better video playback quality, very important if you like Highdefinition movies.

OPENCL in photoshop cs6 and other incoming adobe apps

Cuda from Nvidia is going away.
 
lehtv said:
Except that it doesn't. 7850 consumes 50W less and overclocks 2-3 times better. But on second thought, a 6950 for $200 ($190 AR) is not a bad deal
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Um nobody cares about power consumption I never had I must have lucked out cause I have never had a PSU issue and I have owned 4890CF and it worked fine on a 550watt PSU I now have a 430 watt PSU and it will run any single GPU.
 
Gordon Freemen said:
Um nobody cares about power consumption I never had I must have lucked out cause I have never had a PSU issue and I have owned 4890CF and it worked fine on a 550watt PSU I now have a 430 watt PSU and it will run any single GPU.
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I don't but somebody might be,along with power comes responsibility(here heat)()🙂
 
borisvodofsky said:
go ATI for 2 reasons

Better video playback quality, very important if you like Highdefinition movies.

OPENCL in photoshop cs6 and other incoming adobe apps

Cuda from Nvidia is going away.
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A mid to high end video's cards main purpose is gaming. All the other stuff is secondary. I rather have Ambient Occlusion, Adaptive Vertical Sync and PhysX, thanks.
 
Jaydip said:
I don't but somebody might be,along with power comes responsibility(here heat)()🙂
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"along with power comes responsibility(here heat)" I don't follow you and heat you guys make it sound like it becomes like an oven. Even my old GTX 275 which maxed out @ a not very cool 91c and 220watts in max gaming load was never a heat and power consumption issue for me even is the summer heat of +30c LOL.
 
Leyawiin said:
A mid to high end video's cards main purpose is gaming. All the other stuff is secondary. I rather have Ambient Occlusion, Adaptive Vertical Sync and PhysX, thanks.
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AO = Meh cause it only works in some games, Adaptive Vsync is completely busted, and Physx is Meh I just keep it always off being it's more or less a kitschy sales gimmick. I like nvidia cards as much as the Radeons in fact I own two nvidia cards right now but I don't like nvidia's stupid sales gimmicks that do nothing in games and amount to nothing more than a placebo sales gimmick.
 
Interesting ideas so far.

I figured to flash a 6950 to a 6970 but will look at the recomendations here. Really my budget is more like in the nvidia gtx 460 range but I know that wont last for years to come. Spend a little more now and get more usable gaming life out of the card.

Money is tight but I have already starting buying parts. I know the Intel 2500k is the cpu to have but it is twice the price of the four core 3.8 Ghz amd cpu I was looking at.
 
Artista said:
Interesting ideas so far.

I figured to flash a 6950 to a 6970 but will look at the recomendations here. Really my budget is more like in the nvidia gtx 460 range but I know that wont last for years to come. Spend a little more now and get more usable gaming life out of the card.

Money is tight but I have already starting buying parts. I know the Intel 2500k is the cpu to have but it is twice the price of the four core 3.8 Ghz amd cpu I was looking at.
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This is a good OCed GTX 560ti it performs roughly = to a GTX 480 and will OC more.
 
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