Very helpful, thanks
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The 6970 looks really intersting right about now, bang for the buck.
Increase in framerates is one thing, maybe I won't be getting much over my 470, but the big thing is that more and more games are quite vram hungry, so a reason to buy a new card would be mostly more available vram.
Two other things that concern me are:
Would it pose any problem to switch from nvidia to amd, any driver issues, uninstalling necessary or operating system wise?
There is a new standard for pcie x16 coming, 3.0, so far I have only seen intel mobo's with future support for that (when Ivybridge comes out). Have you seen anything from amd regarding this?