6970, GTX 480, 5970, which to choose?

[Snowman89]

I recently bought a 6950 and succesfully flashed it to a 6970. But last week i stumbled upon a dirt cheap GTX 480 that i also bought. But now i found a guy that wants to trade his 5970 for a GTX 480.

So what should i do? Should i sell the GTX 480 and just stay with the 6970? Or should i sell the 6970? Or trade the 480 for the 5970 and sell the 6970?

I only game at 1920x1080 and the card that i will keep i will watercool.

[CedricFP]

This is what I would do:

Trade 480 for 5970.

Sell 5970.

Use money to purchase second 6950 - flash to 6970 - run 6970 CFX and don't worry about upgrading for 2 years.

[Snowman89]

This is what I would do:

Trade 480 for 5970.

Sell 5970.

Use money to purchase second 6950 - flash to 6970 - run 6970 CFX and don't worry about upgrading for 2 years.

Yeah thats what im thinking of doing, well almost.
A 5970 should be worth more than a GTX 480.

But i cant run cfx since i have a sandy bridge system with a Asrock PRO3 with only 1 pci-e port and there are no other p67 motherboards avalible

So i guess i should stay with the 6970 and watercool it and then overclock the crap out of it

[CedricFP]

Yeah thats what im thinking of doing, well almost.
A 5970 should be worth more than a GTX 480.

But i cant run cfx since i have a sandy bridge system with a Asrock PRO3 with only 1 pci-e port and there are no other p67 motherboards avalible

So i guess i should stay with the 6970 and watercool it and then overclock the crap out of it

If a single card is all you can do, then yeah, I'd just keep the 6970.