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6950 vs 6870
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 2:19 pm
by Skippman
I recently bought Deus Ex and have realized my poor 4870 just can't keep up anymore. I'm trying to put off building a new rig until next year as I'm dumping most of my "play" money into my new car. As such I'm thinking a GPU upgrade might give me the boost I need.
My two questions are is the 6950 better enough than the 6870 to justify the cost difference? And based on my system specs below is trying to squeeze more life out of my machine with a GPU upgrade feezable or a pipe dream?
Re: 6950 vs 6870
Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2011 2:44 pm
by Skippman
For the record, my proc is OC'd to 3.2g
Re: 6950 vs 6870
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2011 6:20 pm
by lordvic
Two Radeon HD 4870's perform a little better than a single HD 5870. A HD 5870 is 5%-10% faster or almost identical to the HD 6870. A single Radeon HD 6950 is about 10% faster than a sinlge HD 5870.
Overall, a single 6870 is approximately as fast as your two Radeon HD 6870's; if it's faster, it won't be by much. Which means the HD 6950 about 10% faster than your dual card setup.
Your two Radeon HD 4870's should hold up quite well - your CPU is mostly likely holding you back a bit.
Re: 6950 vs 6870
Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 1:54 pm
by Skippman
That's what I was afraid off. Guess it's time to upgrade the chip/board/RAM. I could just get a quad core proc but by the time I pay the $250 I could spend $400 for all new gear.
Re: 6950 vs 6870
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 7:35 am
by skier
Skippman wrote:That's what I was afraid off. Guess it's time to upgrade the chip/board/RAM. I could just get a quad core proc but by the time I pay the $250 I could spend $400 for all new gear.
just get a used Q6600 or lower yorkfield for around $100 and overclock it, it would be much better, really i'm astonished you've kept the E6600 this long, I have an E6300 at 3GHz and feel like I can't play a single game that I have because of it (because i can't, even general computer use is laggy to me, maybe i just got too used to my blazing 4GHz Hex-core....)
Re: 6950 vs 6870
Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2011 9:40 am
by Skippman
Well, Project: Monolith took a back seat to some other purchases. I ended up buying a Mini CooperS in addition to Jeepasarus.
I was waiting for a killer Ap to come out that would make me upgrade/rebuild. Looks like D.I.C.E. has finally stepped up with Battlefield 3. About January I'll probably build my next rig. I've got a 800D laying around that needs building.