Graphics Card Up- Budget-Performance

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Ill start off with my Current Specs-

Intel i7-2600
8 Gb DDR3 Memory
60 Gb SSD
800 Gb HDD
Radeon 6670

So the Radeon 6670 will play all modern games, but ofcourse with significant lowering of settings.

I am looking for a card that can run new games on the higher settings, the most i want to spend is 200 dollars

What is the best card i could get for that?

Secondly my motherboard which is an Asus P8H67-M PRO, is AMD cross fire ready.

It has 1 pci-x16 and two pci, how could it run two modern cards when most cards need the x16 expansion?
 
Guru3D uses the following games in their test suite, COD-MW, Bad Company 2, Dirt 2, Far Cry 2, Metro 2033, Dawn of Discovery, Crysis Warhead. Total fps (summing fps in each game @ 1920 x 1200) for the various options in parenthesis (single card / SL or CF) are tabulated below along with their cost in dollars per frame single card - CF or SLI:

$ 200.00 6950 (479/751) $ 0.42 - $ 0.53
$ 240.00 6950 Frozr OC (484/759) $ 0.50 - $ 0.63
$ 200.00 560 Ti (455/792) $ 0.44 - $ 0.51
$ 200.00 560 Ti - 900 Mhz (495/862) $ 0.40 - $ 0.46

As can be seen above the best bang for the buck "outta the box" for $200 is the 900 Mhz 560 Ti which was $200 on Friday but sold out today. The Gigabyte one is $210. These cards are non-reference designs with larger, more efficient coolers and modified PCB's containing beefed up 7 phase VRM's for extreme overclocking

$200 Asus 560 Ti DCII TOP http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121425
$210 GIGABYTE GV-N560OC-1GI http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125363

Here's one hitting an OC a bit over 30% faster than the reference card.
http://www.pureoverclock.com/review.php?id=1201&page=17

The 560 Ti also has better scaling, with two cards the factory overclocked 560 Ti has a 100+ fps edge over the factory overclocked 6950.

Your 750 watt PSu should handle two of those cards, if you gonna do serious overclocking on GPU (> 1020) and CPU (> 4.7 Ghz), may want to think about an 850, but 750 should serve for the average THG enthusiast.
 

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Ok, thanks. I was just trying to make sure, because i know that the 6950 needs certain connections that not all PCUs have.
 
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