Flashing my BIOS on my Gigabyte ga-970a-ud3

[Vezina]

What games do you want to play and at what resolution ,this are the questions

Video card power is never enough for the future ,you need to change it like at every 2 years anyway.

[Thrall]

Well currently my HD 6870 is good enough for my usage.
And likely if I do upgrade in the feature I probably go for a single card instead of Crossfire but just looking at all the possibilities.
 
I mostly play Skyrim, Battlefield 3, Need for Speed - The Run, Witcher 2 Assassins of Kings, Assassin's creed Revelations and other games and I don't really have any bad experience right now.

Even when I run Skyrim on Ultra settings with a screen resolution of 1920x1080 I get like 60 fps (Limited due to vsync enabled which causes Fraps to only show 60 fps). Of course this is not all the time, sometimes it drops to like 40-50 fps but thats still good enough for me. I play at my monitors native resolution most of the times which is 1920x1080.

If I do however notice a drop in performance running that setting I lower the resolution and also lower the graphic settings which most of the times works well.

[Vezina]

If I do however notice a drop in performance running that setting I lower the resolution and also lower the graphic settings which most of the times works well.

Thats the thing everyone does before selling the old card and getting another one better

You have a good card ,i would wait for a price drop in the 78xx series.Selling the old one as long as it s still good will ease the new aquisition.
I wouldn t sell it until the new games show up though  , MOH , Far Cry 3 , Hitman the new CS are almost here.

You can use a crossfire , but i say it s a waste of money.

[Thrall]

I am going to wait. So far the HD 6870 is doing a good job and when new games comes out and the HD 6870 isn't good enough anymore I will then see about buying a new card. Thanks for the help, I appreciate it