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I'm wondering what my next best steps are upgrading from an HD 5850. I've changed the rest of my home retreat system and am now running at i5-2500k @ 4.5GHz with 8GB of DDR3-1600 (Corsair Vengeance).
Power supply is an Antec EA-650W: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371044
Other load on the PSU includes a 1TB 7200RPM HDD, 64GB SSD, Corsair H60, 4 fans. Board is the Gigabyte Z68MA.
I game at 1080P. My raison d'être is BF3. Ideally, I'd like to be able to max out settings with 4x AA and 16x AF.
My 5850 can hit ~1000MHz on the core and ~1200-1250MHz on the memory. Is there a worthwhile single-card upgrade (must be less than or equal to 11") or should I skip out this generation?
FWIW I am not particularly impressed with the benchmarks of the 6950 or GTX 570 (or 6970). I am uncertain if I will see enough of an improvement?
Power supply is an Antec EA-650W: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371044
Other load on the PSU includes a 1TB 7200RPM HDD, 64GB SSD, Corsair H60, 4 fans. Board is the Gigabyte Z68MA.
I game at 1080P. My raison d'être is BF3. Ideally, I'd like to be able to max out settings with 4x AA and 16x AF.
My 5850 can hit ~1000MHz on the core and ~1200-1250MHz on the memory. Is there a worthwhile single-card upgrade (must be less than or equal to 11") or should I skip out this generation?
FWIW I am not particularly impressed with the benchmarks of the 6950 or GTX 570 (or 6970). I am uncertain if I will see enough of an improvement?