Graphic Cards MSi OC 6850 vs Sapphire 6850

If I wait will the HD7*** series, will they be priced similar to the present 6*** cards.(Eg. 7850 being priced similar to 6850). Will 7*** series be released in India that soon?

In that case should I go ahead with rest of my system use on board Intel graphics for now.

And also I heard that 7*** series is PCIe 3.0 complaint, so if I go with ASUS mobo, will it provide a BIOS update similar to Gigabyte for supporting PCIe 3.0? Or should I go for Gigabyte mobo?

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Please advice as soon as possible as I have to buy the system in this weekend probably.

And there seemed to be some delay so my post got posted before but people seemed to have missed it.
 
1. MSI OC vs Sapphire 6850: MSI OC

2. Guaranteed gaming @1080p with everything maxed out: 6950 1gb

3. Should I wait for 7xxx: expect to wait close to half a year before they become available and then prices will have to stabilize. imo not worth waiting but its up to you to decide that as they can be expected to bring 20-30% better performance at same price

4. PCIE 3.0: consider this of less importance than other factors like perferable layout, number of slots etc when choosing mobo.
 
Sapphire HD 6850 fan speed at 80% is intolerable.. too much noise. and if you would wait for 6 months , i am sure a next gen-cards would be ready to launch within another 8-10 months.. so, you wait and wait and wait.. IMO, you will grow old, you can never game as you should do now.
 
Right now I have Nvidia 8600 GT from my old system. So if the wait is not that long I would go with rest of the system, use 8600 for now and buy a 7*** card when the series comes out.
 
nick2012 said:
no use just buy cyclone 6850-9.2k
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^^ No use I hope you know what AMD has promised with Southern Island cards [HD 7***] apart from a smaller fabrication process ~28nm [which directly translates to lower thermals and power consumption with better performance], they are migrating across the board to VLIW 4 architecture plus the high end cards might even have something on nVidia's CUDA cores lines called --> AnandTech - AMD's Graphics Core Next Preview: AMD's New GPU, Architected For Compute.

Also if the performance jump is not great, the existing AMD HD 6*** line-up and nVidia GTX 5** series will get a nice price trim across the board to facilitate the entry of these new chips as well as nVidia which has delayed Kepler till Q1 2012 will have to cut prices just to be more competitive AnandTech - Update: Kepler GPUs Shipping This Year? NVIDIA Says No.

Hope this adds to the topic, Sire.
 
ALPHA17 said:
^^ No use I hope you know what AMD has promised with Southern Island cards [HD 7***] apart from a smaller fabrication process ~28nm [which directly translates to lower thermals and power consumption with better performance], they are migrating across the board to VLIW 4 architecture plus the high end cards might even have something on nVidia's CUDA cores lines called --> AnandTech - AMD's Graphics Core Next Preview: AMD's New GPU, Architected For Compute.

Also if the performance jump is not great, the existing AMD HD 6*** line-up and nVidia GTX 5** series will get a nice price trim across the board to facilitate the entry of these new chips as well as nVidia which has delayed Kepler till Q1 2012 will have to cut prices just to be more competitive AnandTech - Update: Kepler GPUs Shipping This Year? NVIDIA Says No.

Hope this adds to the topic, Sire.
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Apparently HD7**** series has been delayed according to AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series Apparently Postponed to 2012 | Latest news

So the HD7**** launch is 4-6 months away , should I wait for that long while using my XFX 8600 Gt or should I buy MSI HD6850 ?
 
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