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(More customer reviews)No one seems to be purchasing this item, so I thought I should at least inform those wishing to buy a Radeon HD 6950 that this card works great. In fact, they all do right now because they are all the same card with different manufacturer's stickers on the top of them. They all have the exact same design, were all produced by AMD, same clock speeds, memory speeds, shader counts, etc.
And yes, this card, at least mine, also was easily unlocked to run as a 6970 card. It's a nice $70 dollar bonus if you willing to take the 5 minutes necessary to read up on it and complete the rather trivial task. For those trying, I will add that apparently MSI locks the bios and you'll have to do the extra bios unlock step to actual flash it to a 6970. You'll know what that means if you actually plan on doing the bios upgrade on this chip.
The MSI card does not have as good of a warranty as some other brands such as XFX, which gives a limited lifetime warranty, but it isn't the worst either.
Really, there's nothing else to say about this card. The rest of my current build is four years old and I can still run almost all modern games at high settings now at 1080P res. Can't way to get the rest of my stuff this week.
Conclusion: Don't be afraid to buy this brand if you are looking for a 6950. They have been making high end parts for a while and it is not a no-name brand. Also, as said, they are all actually produced by AMD and are identical RIGHT NOW. This will change in the future, (as the ability to unlock almost certainly will too,)but right now I think this card is as good as any other 6950 out there and it's in stock, whereas many of the others aren't.
Edit: Card is still performing well two weeks in. PC Vantage Mark score of 22,000 for card after very slight overclock. As I hinted in the review above, AMD has announced plans to release a "revised" 6950 card. As of January 15th, 2011, you likely only have 2 weeks or so left to buy the "old" version of these cards, aka, 6970's that have been sold as 6950's to meet market demand. If you are looking to buy one of these to get a 6970 for a bargain, do so in a hurry. It's still a great card either way, but the added value proposition is going to be disappearing soon.
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MSI Radeon HD 6950 2GB DDR5 256bit PCI Express 2.0 x 16 graphics card 2PM2D2GD5, 2 x mini display Port, HDMI, 2 x DVI to D-SUB
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