Sold my 460, need a replacement card.

jaguarmatt

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First of all, Happy New Years to all!

I sold my GTX 460 1GB OEM today and I'll be needing a replacement card.
My motherboard is an MSI 890GXM-G65 so it supports crossfire.


Will AMD or Nvidia be releasing any new cards that would drop prices anytime soon? (Not sure when the gtx 560 will be out)

If I do wait to buy a card, which one should it be? I'm looking for a little bit more performance than my 460 had, but wouldn't mind doing a Crossfire to get the performance boost. (ex. cf 5750)

Should I get a card to hold me over for now, or isn't there one worth the wait in the near future?
I was considering 6850's, but 5850's look like the better buy by a long shot at the moment.

CPU - Athlon II x4 630 @ 3.65ghz
Ram - 2x2 GB Samsung @ 1333mhz (will soon raise to +1600)
PSU - Silverstone Zeus 650 Watt cont. power supply. (it has 5 x 6pin adapters, but I can do a dual psu setup with my rocketfish 500; 2x8pin)


Thanks for reading,

- Matt
 
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What will you use your Card for? And what is your monitor resolution?
For games I recommend HD 6950 and unlock it to HD 6970.
The unlocking appears to be nearly 100% successful. If for some reason it didn't unlock it's not a bad choice anyway. If you can afford it it is what I would recommend considering you are looking for an upgrade from the GTX 460 and your motherboard is crossfire capable