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GTX 480 vs Unlocked 6950

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Cyrix_2k

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Stupid question - I have a Sapphire Radeon 6950 2gb w/unlocked shaders. I don't play many games, mostly TF2, CS:S, and CS:GO so it's really overkill. I do have all the settings maxed out and I play at 2560x1440, but even so I rarely dip below 100 fps. I just purchased a GTX 480 for its CUDA cores and didn't realize exactly what I bought. My original plan was to run it side-by-side with the 6950, but now I'm wondering if I should just remove the 6950 and run the GTX 480 as my primary card. Thoughts?
 
6950 unlocked to a 6970 is about equal, from what I've seen, to a GTX 480. Where you may run into problems is the 1.5 Vram vs the 2 Gb on the 6950.
 
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