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Ok, I know there was thread earlier asking was it worth it to upgrade from the 4870x2 to any of the 69xx series. Well, I went through a lot of thinking there recently and decided I would actually update my system this year. I have the 4870x2 for two years and when I heard that the next generation cards would be released until 2012, I decided now was the time to spend some cash.
The problem now was picking which card, the three contenders for me were the 570 GTX, the 6970 or the 6950. All three great cards. I reckon I was one of the few people on the forum who was quite happy with the new cards released by AMD
I think their price/performance level is amazing. Anyway, choosing between the 3 was hard, really hard, this round I had decided to switch to Nvidia, but, when I saw the hardocp review of the 69xx series cards I began to have doubts. I decided then the 6970 was the one for me, but when I went to put through my order I changed my mind completely and went for the 6950. I play at 1920*1080 and think that this card will overclock more than the 6970 and suit my gaming and my wallet better
It's basically putting my money where my mouth is, I have said that I think that the performance of these cards will improve when a proper driver comes out from them.
Ok, I haven't included any unboxing pictures, or even pictures of the card. There are loads of those pictures out there!! First impressions on opening the box were Nice card. Feels very reasssuringly solid. Install was a breeze, just uninstalled old drivers, turned off computer, put in card, install 12.a hotfix drivers and reboot.
Now I only have this card about 2 hours, but, so far no problems. Image quality is superb. For those people that use their TV's as computer monitors I think you will be amazed at the difference. Been able to connect to my LX5090 directly using HDMI and not through a DVD/hdmi dongle is great. This is just my impressions coming from a 4870x2 and it's all good so far.
Noise while idle, well, compared to the x2, well it's virtually silent Guess I didn't know how noisey the x2 was!! Because I can't hear the 6950 at all. Now noise doesn't bother me too much, generally can't hear it above the games I play anyway, but, the silence at idle now is really nice.
Game performance, well, I am very happy with it. I have tried AVP, Metro 2033, Counter strike source and fallout new vegas so far. Very, very smooth in all these games. I didn't measure any FPS in any of these, but, it has no problems running these games at all. Even tried Metro 2033 with MLAA and it looks great. Nosie levels are hard to judge, but, it's way quieter than the 4870x2 when playing games.
I always tried the uningine benchmark. Here is my results.
Not sure how good or bad that is lol.
But, I am delighted with my purchase so far. And I would recommend anyone with a 4870x2 to consider upgrading.
Due to a mistake by the courier, the shop I bought the card off is sending me out another one because the first one went missing. My dilema now is do I keep the second 6950? lol.
Any questions, just ask.
The problem now was picking which card, the three contenders for me were the 570 GTX, the 6970 or the 6950. All three great cards. I reckon I was one of the few people on the forum who was quite happy with the new cards released by AMD
I think their price/performance level is amazing. Anyway, choosing between the 3 was hard, really hard, this round I had decided to switch to Nvidia, but, when I saw the hardocp review of the 69xx series cards I began to have doubts. I decided then the 6970 was the one for me, but when I went to put through my order I changed my mind completely and went for the 6950. I play at 1920*1080 and think that this card will overclock more than the 6970 and suit my gaming and my wallet better It's basically putting my money where my mouth is, I have said that I think that the performance of these cards will improve when a proper driver comes out from them.
Ok, I haven't included any unboxing pictures, or even pictures of the card. There are loads of those pictures out there!! First impressions on opening the box were Nice card. Feels very reasssuringly solid. Install was a breeze, just uninstalled old drivers, turned off computer, put in card, install 12.a hotfix drivers and reboot.
Now I only have this card about 2 hours, but, so far no problems. Image quality is superb. For those people that use their TV's as computer monitors I think you will be amazed at the difference. Been able to connect to my LX5090 directly using HDMI and not through a DVD/hdmi dongle is great. This is just my impressions coming from a 4870x2 and it's all good so far.
Noise while idle, well, compared to the x2, well it's virtually silent
Guess I didn't know how noisey the x2 was!! Because I can't hear the 6950 at all. Now noise doesn't bother me too much, generally can't hear it above the games I play anyway, but, the silence at idle now is really nice. Game performance, well, I am very happy with it. I have tried AVP, Metro 2033, Counter strike source and fallout new vegas so far. Very, very smooth in all these games. I didn't measure any FPS in any of these, but, it has no problems running these games at all. Even tried Metro 2033 with MLAA and it looks great. Nosie levels are hard to judge, but, it's way quieter than the 4870x2 when playing games.
I always tried the uningine benchmark. Here is my results.
Not sure how good or bad that is lol.
But, I am delighted with my purchase so far. And I would recommend anyone with a 4870x2 to consider upgrading.
Due to a mistake by the courier, the shop I bought the card off is sending me out another one because the first one went missing. My dilema now is do I keep the second 6950? lol.
Any questions, just ask.
