Upgrading from Radeon 6870

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Jvin

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Hello Im currently looking to upgrade my gpu from my current card which is a sapphire 6870 to something more current and better. The problem is im not sure my motherboard is compatible with new gpu's. I know the radeon 7000 series has released not too long ago but would they work with my mobo? My desktop is a gaming rig and my main goal with this upgrade is to play the new games and mmos such as tera online and guild wars 2 at max settings without dropping to crap fps

My mother board is the MSI P67A-C43 heres a link:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813130571

Is there anything better than the 6870 for me to work with?
 
claptonman said:
If budget is not a concern:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...315498&IsNodeId=1&name=GeForce GTX 600 series
(Besides that 560, not sure why that's in the 6xx series)

or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...6767 600286740&IsNodeId=1&name=Radeon HD 7970

If that's too much, give a budget!
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Tbh I was looking into the 7870 which lead me here. And i see you recommended the 7970 but i like to go mid tier because the x9xx's always seem overkill for gaming. So would the 7870 OC edition work with my mobo? The thing that worries me is that these new cards say PCiE 3.0

This:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102983
 
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A 7870 is plenty fast, but when you said money doesn't matter, that's why I'd get a 7970.

But yeah, a 7870 would be a little faster than a Nvidia 570. You'd be happy with the 7870.

3.0 is backwards compatible with 2.0. The difference would only matter in synthetic benchmarks, when comparing a 3.0 slot with a 2.0 slot.
 
Cool very good to know! My 7870 will be here monday. And yea the 7970 would just be too much of a beast for what id be doing with it. If I NEEDED it then I wouldnt hesitate. Thanks for all the help and information. Pretty soon my mobo will be a bottle neck it pretty is already due too only having one PCiE slot. Next time instead of a gpu update ill be doing a full rig. Ill definetly be back here for that project.
 
Jvin said:
Cool very good to know! My 7870 will be here monday. And yea the 7970 would just be too much of a beast for what id be doing with it. If I NEEDED it then I wouldnt hesitate. Thanks for all the help and information. Pretty soon my mobo will be a bottle neck it pretty is already due too only having one PCiE slot. Next time instead of a gpu update ill be doing a full rig. Ill definetly be back here for that project.
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Sounds good, but I really wouldn't worry about a bottleneck. (Besides if you want two graphics card) Even the top PCI 2.0 graphics card didn't get anywhere close to the full bandwidth, so you still have space. If your CPU is good enough, then this should last you 5 years easy.
 
claptonman said:
Sounds good, but I really wouldn't worry about a bottleneck. (Besides if you want two graphics card) Even the top PCI 2.0 graphics card didn't get anywhere close to the full bandwidth, so you still have space. If your CPU is good enough, then this should last you 5 years easy.
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So i think i ran into an issue that my crush my dreams. Unfortunately I got a case that I believe to be midsize I kinda skimped out on it with my inital build and Im not sure if this thing will even be able to fit in it.

I got a Rosewill challenger.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147153

My mind is telling me this isnt gonna work.
 
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10.24" x 4.45" x 1.38" are the dimensions for the card
18.50" x 7.48" x 17.08" are the dimensions for the case

The guy above me is right though, that doesn't include the space that the cage is taking up, so I hope you have measuring tape.
 
I got around to measuring it and there was close to a foot total and about an 1.5 inches of space from the end of my 6870 to the drive bays. So i should be A-Okay
 
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