Buy VTX3D 1GB Radeon HD 6950 PCI-E 2.0 Graphics CardVTX3D 1GB Radeon HD 6950 PCI-E 2.0 Graphics Card Product Description:
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DL DVI-I/SL-DVI-D/HDMI/miniDP FAN / ATX /2 slots
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Great value as a single card
By Steve
I purchased the VTX3D Radeon 6950 1Gb a couple of weeks ago for £167.I game at a resolution of 1920x1080.I bought this to replace my 2 x Radeon 5770 1Gb cards in Crossfire. This might sound a little crazy as these cards were reckoned to be of similar performance to a single Radeon 5870. The 5870 also comes in close to the 6950 in some benchmarks. However, there is method to my madness.I found my set up to be plagued with overheating issues from the two dual slot cards being so close together. Crossfire does not always work in all games, it is sometimes unstable until the drivers catch up and scaling is not always what is claimed. Newer games or those using tesselation, struggle on the 5000 series cards.The VTX3D Radeon 6950 1Gb may not sound like much of an upgrade and yet I am a very happy customer at this price.Performance in Dirt 2 is comparable to my previous setup. However, F1 2010 is dramatically improved and is fully maxed at this resolution delivering a minimum of 60 FPS. Metro 2033, a very demanding DX11 title, can be played on High settings with 4 x AA and works really well...it stuttered on the 5000 series with any AA. It makes mincemeat out of Battlefield Bad Company 2. Test Drive Unlimited 2 does not support Crossfire and therefore this card is a big improvement versus a single 5770. I have yet to test on Crysis or Stalker Call of Pripyat.There are some other reasons to buy this card. Blu-Ray video playback is better on the 6000 series it appears with an extremely clear image comparable to my HDTV. Tesselation and advanced DX11 features seem much less demanding on this card with the Cayman architecture. There is a voltage tweak control available in the Catalyst driver, which means you can save power for less demanding titles or go upwards to help overclocking. It has a dual bios switch (I have not tested flashing to a 6970 as it voids the warranty and I read it may not work on 1Gb versions). Idle temperatures are averaging 38 degrees and at load I am only seeing 60 degrees...I think it runs cooler with 1Gb VRAM and it proves that the copper heat pipes and large twin fans on the VTX3D version cope well.Installation was a breeze but remember to uninstall all Catalst software and any Crossfire application profiles beforehand.Don't buy this version if you game higher than 1920x1080, want to use Eyefinity with three 3 screens or expect to have 2 of these in Crossfire. The 1Gb will likely constrain the card in these circumstances and you should buy the 2Gb version.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.Seeing is believing
By Dare
I have been a Nvidia fan for many years, so how come I bought this card then. Well, I like to keep an open mind and I looked at all the reviews for my next Nvidia card - and noticed this card kept cropping up as a better choice. Both cards were similarly priced but the specs seemed to favour ATI. Go for it! A delay in delivery (caused by the carrier) meant I had upgraded my wife's computer to accept the Nvidia 8800GTS card and was forced to share it between our machines over the weekend. The card arrived Monday and ... nothing in the blurb, reviews, or whatever told me IT REQUIRED TWO PCIe 6PIN POWER CONNECTORS. Of course, my power supply only had one! Luckily, a quick visit to ebay found a 1female to 2male adapter lead - which happily arrived early the next day. Installation was a breeze, even on my multi-boot system. A quick check on Windows 7 performance monitor told me that the slowest component was the Intel I5/760 processor! Then I fitted the HDMI cable - and, well, sat back in amazement at the improvement on my LG 24" display. To say I'm pleased is an understatement. I heartily recommend this to others, just be aware that this card is not small - and requires 2 6pin power plugs.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.Amazind Card for under £200
By Joseph
This GPU is amazing, the windows experiance index gave it 7.9 out of 7.9. This is quite a big card so make sure you have a big enough case, also you can have upto 4 of these in Crossfire mode and a single card supports upto 4 monitors. And if you are using an AMD CPU and have AMD vision control centre then you can overclock this and even control your fan speed (which is aloth easier than going into your bios) and you don't even have to restart your computer if tou do overclock this. At the moment this card can handle any games on max settings on the stock settings (providing you have other conponents that are good e.g. 4gb ddr3 ram, quad-core pc)
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