AMD CPU's

[TonyD]

Hi karvis

If I was to replace my current graphics card, I would look at a HD7870 – it has slightly better in-game performance than my current one (from most reviews I’ve read), and uses a whopping 100W less power doing it. Don’t know what your price may be though. They have only just become available locally, priced at 350/250 Euros for the 7870/7850, which is a bit expensive, with the 7850 looking the most attractive .

As robtek said, a 6950 should be in your price range if they are still available, and is a fair bit ahead of a 6850. The new 7850 should provide very similar performance to one of these.

My previous 965 X4 gave good performance in CloD, particularly when I raised the ‘FSB’ to 225MHz (cpu at 3825MHz). This gave more performance than raising the multiplier on it’s own. I have no experience with the X6, but know that they are very ‘over-clockable’, so you should be able to do something similar (the one you refer to does not have an unlocked multiplier, IIRC).