good price on these cards at the moment and can flash it to a ATI Radeon HD 6990 apparently.

ive seen the 2gb version for <￡200

do they work with brink?

i have the cyclone 6850 an that one works like a charm.

I just built a new system yesterday with a 6950. With settings cranked all the way up, I still pull over 50fps at all times.

That card any good? I'm able to do that on my two year old Alienware laptop.

- F

This is why I could never see myself gaming on the pc, way to many technical issues for my simple mind, I like my good old, simple 360. It lets me do what I want to do without messing around!

Also why would you spent so much udgrading and building a pc just to play games?

Is that with settings maxed? Even the outside the game settings?

i havent upgarded my gfx card for about 5 year. the one im getting rid of wees all over a xbox for gfx my processor is still many times more powerful than an xbox and its 5 years old too this new gfx card will blow the xbox away totally. think better gfx than the NEXT xbox (i.e. xbox 720)

i want brink to play a little better (my old card wasnt getting the fps i want and couldn't handle the spectacular fx like ambient occlusion (xbox cant do that anyway)) and it certainly wouldn't cope well with bf3 that is out later in the year. remember the pc version will have 64 players. 40 more than the console! battlefield just isnt battlefield unless there are 64 people playing together!

im not someone who upgrades pc every year, i don't see the point in that. but i do love my eye candy and this is the first time it hasn't been able to cope with high settings. i built this pc well before i got my ps3.

pc technicalities don't bother me. im a developer and IT manager so i can generally cope easily with desktop problems if they arise.

fair play to you with liking your xbox but i hate using console pads for FPS, they just arent built for aiming. i still use my ps3 a lot for fifa, drakes fortune etc or when playing with the wife (she is into the new motorstorm at the moment)

I'm running two Powercolor HD 6950 PCS ++ in crossfire. I'm running an Eyefinity 3 monitor set-up They're unlocked to 6970s, (they can't be unlocked to 6990 as that's a dual GPU card. If you water cooled them you could probably squeeze even more out of one though.

I've had no issues with Brink apart from the invisible players and occasional menu text glitches that everyone seems to be getting. Fps is smooth as silk, xfire seems to be detected fine. I can't tell you actual fps values since I prefer vsynch on but I've never seen so much as a frame stutter on max settings.

6950 2Gb are probably the best value for GPU at the moment. If you do go for one make sure it specifies unlockable and has the dual bios switch. Get one of these and unlock it, (overclockers.co.uk have a good guide on how to on their forum), for the money, you can't fall off.

yeah, my bad, typo in the OP. i have ordered an unlockable one. and one that was supposedly the quietest my 8800gtx is sooo noisy!

i really would like a triple monitor setup but i already have a home cinema setup at the other end of the lounge. i have a spare 22" monitor and i use a 24" one for gaming, so it is possible. think i will just go 2 monitors for the time being (like i used to years ago when i did music production stuff on the pc)

thats for the heads up on ocuk. thats where i got the card. will check their forums again!

You're very welcome hope you enjoy your new card.

I sure do.

arghhh 17+ pages on that thread at OCUK! eek!