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I have a few questions (pretty noob, so bear with me):
1: In extreme gaming builds, people usually go for 4x GTX 460s. Why not go for quad 580s?
2: Which would be better, 2x 590 or 4x 580 in quad? Would there be problems?
 
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I thought that at first too but the jump in the GTX 6 series is suppose to be more than the jumps in the past.
and the GTX 680 the first to be released was actually suppose to be the GTX 660-Ti or GTX 670.
when nVidia realized how the HD 7 series underperformed in their eyes, the lowered the the chip to match the HD 7970 performance.
so basically nVidia is holding back and will charge some ridiculously insane high prices when they do decide
to release the 'big boy' into the fold.
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I believe that both companies have cards that are hundreds of times faster than the ones they've given us.

Take Crysis for example. That game was designed on Beta hardware. And even now it still spanks even the top end cards. So what the hell did they develop it on to have it running at 60+ frames in 2007?!?!?

That's FIVE years ago.

It's just like the gas companies. They've got the designs for cars that run without gas and when the gas runs out they will control those too.

Conspiracies all around us!
 
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I has an awesome P55 EVGA SLi E652 pushing an i5-760 @ 3.52GHz, I loved that set-up.
ran x8/x8 in dual and that was cool but still ran x8 in single.
not cool.. :pfff:
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You were running it in the top slot?

I made the same mistake. Had it running at 8x/16x .... :non:

You have to read under the PCIe slots... they specify what speed the slot operates at. Why on earth they put an 8x slot at the top I don't know. Maybe they just assume everyone will be running 3-way setups.
 
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the board was designed to run @ x8/ even in single.
I wanted the ASUS Gene-Z but it was sold out at the time and I saw an open box on newegg but missed it.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188053
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Despite what I've read about 16x having no tangible benefits over 8x in terms of performance, I would also be highly p***** off!
 
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we could start a separate thread about conspiracies.... :pt1cable: :lol:


it took 3 GTX 580's to run this in real-time, 2 in SLi and the third was PhysX in the first set-up.
the seconds set-up was a single Kepler GPU.
this is my reasoning for thinking that the jump will be more than in the past.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-epic-samaritan-kepler-fermi,14966.html
[flash=560,315]http://www.youtube.com/v/UONbgHju9xA?version=3&hl=en_US[/flash]
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And this is also just depressing... I put way too much money into my computer as it is and now with the release of this card things will change. I reckon it'll be priced around £700 or $1000 as well?

Only time will tell.
 
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I haven't heard of many people using SLI 590s, it's not such a common setup.

OMG 680 in SLI will be overkill. My 580s will do me just fine for the next year or two :sol:
 
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2x 680 would be EPIC. Ill keep that config for another 3 years? I have a 16x motherboard capable of quad sli...
 
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wrong, granted i have a 3d monitor, but the 120hz makes a night and day diffrence in 2d gaming. Trust me your dead wrong.
 
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2D the better monitor is the 60 and not the 120.
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wrong, where are you getting this *** from? can someone else with a 120hz monitor please explain to these people that 120hz in 2d is a 1000x times better than 60hz in 2d.

Heres a simple trick, i move my mouse accross my 60hz monitor theres a trail (2ms response time asus its not old its fast), i move my mouse across my 120hz monitor and theres no trail. When i played games in 60hz in 2d there was always a sort of motionblur/lag/whatever it was , no matter what i did to the settings. now that i have a 120hz monitor, there none of that
 
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Guys, 120HZ will still be better. It comes down to your FPS. If your run 60 FPS on 60HZ and 60 FPS on 120, it'll look the same. Play 120 FPS then you'll see it. 120 HZ is the best for both setups, 2D and 3D.


Source:
2 weeks deciding between 3D or 2D
 
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Lol, this thread is about SLI. Youll hit that easily.

One thing out of curiosity, will 2x 590 perform as well as 4x 580 in sli? (in fps and bench). 590s are slower than 580s, so I'm expecting 580s to win by 5-10%?
 
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And let's be realistic, you won't score 120+ fps on a newer game unless it's a 2D game.

OR and older game (except Crysis, which I was getting between 50-75 fps last night with my GTX 580s)
 
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I know!









Minesweeper in 3d. Easily 500FPS.
 
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