Graphics card recommendations please

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Hi there

I currently have one of these

Asus 6950 DDR5 1GB

It has served me well for over two years now, but its becomes a bit long in the tooth and its time for an upgrade.

What would be a worthwhile upgrade?

Plan on selling the card, and chipping in about R2500 max

Thoughts please
 
techead said:
Hi there

I currently have one of these

Asus 6950 DDR5 1GB

It has served me well for over two years now, but its becomes a bit long in the tooth and its time for an upgrade.

What would be a worthwhile upgrade?

Plan on selling the card, and chipping in about R2500 max

Thoughts please
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As far as I know nothing it better at that price point.
 
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Here is a hierarchy chart, from what I've read you should usually go 3 tiers higher or something like that.
 
The 7950 would already give almost 50% performance increase over the HD6950 when playing at FHD.
The standard AMD design fans are very noisy with both the HD7970 and 7950, so be careful when you're concerned about noise to go for reference design models!

The power consumption of the 7950 is the same as that of the 6950, but it would give you better performance though. Upgrading now is perhaps not a bad idea, because the longer you wait, the less you'll get for that HD6950 - not that you'll get much (~R1300 perhaps) for it now in any case.
 
techead said:
When can we expect the HD8xxx series to be released?
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According to wiki, end of 2013 and it will be called the HD9xxx series

The HD8xxx series will apparently be a re-brand (according to Tom's hardware it will be skipped for desktop), not sure how reliable this news is
 
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