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The only real 'improvement' this adds to the series, according to the leak, is the firefight mode stolen from ODST that nobody asked for.

*edit* Sorry, it is the HIS Turbo, not MSI. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161359&cm_re=his_6950-_-14-161-359-_-Product Can this be unlocked? It is different from the standard ref card in that it comes factory clocked to 840 instead of 800. I'm wondering if there...

MSI seems to have the best customer support of all the gpu manufacturers.

Does anyone know when the card manufacturers are going to pick up PCI 3.0? Next series?

Hmm... I don't know how much longer the other 4870 will last though, and if it dies out while I'm running crossfire, then I am probably back to one outdated card again. The 4870s are ridiculously cheap, but at the same time it feels a tad pointless to be putting together a new build using all...

beer cooled system, anyone?

my brand new 750w Seasonic should do the job ;)

Alright thanks a lot for that. I'm definitely planning to get a 2500k or 8 core bulldozer CPU (if they don't get delayed too much). Do you think that crossfiring the 4870's would give me very good relative performance to what I'm getting now? I don't really care about high settings at this...

I've been planning on making a new high end build for a while, but I'm interested in waiting for the Radeon 7xxx series (seems worth waiting for the die change) and Bulldozer, so I'm wondering if I could buy a 6950 to extend the lifespan of my current rig a little while longer until the two...

I've heard that 6nm is the about the smallest we can expect to get without quantum interference, which means in the next decade we might see an indefinite period of relative stagnation in terms of performance increases.

According to purported leaks, Bulldozer is slated for a shipping date of June 20th in the US market, though I wouldn't be surprised at all if it came later than that.