So going to be doing some upgrades towards the end of this month in hopes of being able to run Ultra settings in BF3 at 5932x1080 with 60+ FPS on the massive Conquest Maps (Caspian Border brought my system to a crawl on low settings in eyefinity). Right now I have 2 6950s in CF and was thinking about getting a 6990. Now I have a few questions.
Would I be holding the 6990 back at all by running it alongside 2 6950s that have 1408 shaders vs the 1536 of the 6990?
Would I be better off with selling the 6950s, getting a 6970 and only running tri-fire 6990+6970?
Option 3 would be to skip the 6990 and pick up 2 more 6950s and run Quad-fire with 4x 6950s?
Other Upgrades that will be done at the same time are Replacing my Pro board with a WS Revolution, getting a full tower case for better airflow/space & a 1200/1350w power supply.
*EDIT* Figured I'd updated the first post.
I've narrowed down it to two options with this upgrade:
Option 1
ASUS MAXIMUS IV EXTREME - Runs Triple cards at 16/16/8
Get a 6990 for Quadfire 6990+6950+6950
Cost ~ $1030
Option 2
ASUS P8P67 WS REVOLUTION - runs Quad cards at 8/8/8/8
Get 2 more 6950s for a total of 4x 6950s for Quadfire
Cost ~ $800
Power supply with either option will be the HCP-1200 or AX1200. Case will most likely be the CM HAF 932
Would I be holding the 6990 back at all by running it alongside 2 6950s that have 1408 shaders vs the 1536 of the 6990?
Would I be better off with selling the 6950s, getting a 6970 and only running tri-fire 6990+6970?
Option 3 would be to skip the 6990 and pick up 2 more 6950s and run Quad-fire with 4x 6950s?
Other Upgrades that will be done at the same time are Replacing my Pro board with a WS Revolution, getting a full tower case for better airflow/space & a 1200/1350w power supply.
*EDIT* Figured I'd updated the first post.
I've narrowed down it to two options with this upgrade:
Option 1
ASUS MAXIMUS IV EXTREME - Runs Triple cards at 16/16/8
Get a 6990 for Quadfire 6990+6950+6950
Cost ~ $1030
Option 2
ASUS P8P67 WS REVOLUTION - runs Quad cards at 8/8/8/8
Get 2 more 6950s for a total of 4x 6950s for Quadfire
Cost ~ $800
Power supply with either option will be the HCP-1200 or AX1200. Case will most likely be the CM HAF 932
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