new mb and vid card

so a few months ago i tried building a new system.
the motherboard and case came damaged.
i got a refund from newegg on both items.
i kept my i7 sandy bridge an the 16 gigs of ram.
i used the refund money to do some vehicle reapirs.

anyway im now looking at two items i think will work well for me.

the video card is this one here
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130798
the motherboard is this one here
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131854

i currently run a 5 box team and see some shutter and frps drop in sw and instances.
the current card im running now is the ati hd 6950 toxic edition.
i do like ati cards but i want to try something different i think.
im thinking about making the switch to nvidia once again.
would this 4 gig card be worth a shot?
both items are going to cost me 850$

does anyone run the ati 3 gig cards?
and if so how are they?

any suggestions would be very helpful

Thats the graphics card I bought, but paid $30 more than you darn it.

i have not bought it yet lol ill have to save up some more money.
does it perform well for you John?

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Originally Posted by CD82

does it perform well for you John?

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Yes before I could 5-box easily but when I opened up 10 windows things got iffy. This does 10 windows just fine.

My previous was a GTX 465 1 GB so it was a bit of an upgrade.

I've always been an nvidia guy but I am building a new boxing pc this week in prep for MoP and this one will include my first ATI card in about 6 years so I will let you know how it works out in a couple days, here is my parts list:

Gigabyte AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB GDDR5 DVI-I/HDMI/2x Mini-Displayport PCI-Express Graphic Card GV-R795WF3-3GD


Intel Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge 3.5GHz
ASRock Z77 Pro4 LGA 1155 Intel Z77
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
2 x Crucial 256 GB m4 2.5-Inch Solid State Drive SATA 6Gb/s CT256M4SSD2

thanks for the responce nitro btw i like your set-up you moved into the garage!

Just got my new rig setup today and did some 5-boxing in the middle of Ogrimmar during prime time on a high pop server and it's smooth as butter. Thumbs up for the HD 7950 from me so far.

which brand of card did ya get?? i know its ATI but is the card msi or sapphire or ?

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Originally Posted by CD82

which brand of card did ya get?? i know its ATI but is the card msi or sapphire or ?

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I got the Gigabyte one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814125414

so nitro what are your fps with all 5 going and in like orig in prime time or in a good instance?

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Originally Posted by CD82

so nitro what are your fps with all 5 going and in like orig in prime time or in a good instance?

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Driving two 1600x1200 monitors I am sitting at about 39fps in the middle of a crowded org. It's really nice, I can fly all over the place in ogr now and my alts never lose follow. I use to have to baby sit them as they were constantly lagging behind so this is a dream.

Here is a screenshot for proof: http://knightsofshadow.org/ftpscreen...hots/Nitro.jpg

the vid card i run is just two gigs ive got one 27 inch monitor and a 19 inch wide screen.
when i fly over sw are when i walk into sw with all 5 going i drop to about 20 if its busy.
or even if it isnt busy