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Post by Maarek "Steel" Stele on Sept 19, 2012 18:10:21 GMT -5
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Post by Maarek "Steel" Stele on Sept 19, 2012 18:12:54 GMT -5
Also, I'm looking to buy 2 new Nvidia cards... Any recommendations? I'm going to run them SLI....
Or, if it makes better sense to run only one card that is better that recommendation would also be welcomed...
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dagger
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Post by dagger on Sept 19, 2012 23:14:29 GMT -5
IMO, SLI and Crossfire are more trouble than theyre worth . Keeping them identical, firmware updates, ... two cards to me is just another point of failure.. Unless money is no object I'd stick with a single beefy card. I've seen a lot of SLI rigs at shows just flat up and die from overheating which becomes a crisis right before people fill the booths =/ With Nvidia, they tend to make the good stuff with x80, or x85. They like to have a wide array of cards all over the board with each series (I think theyre still in the 600 series?). I have a GTX480 in my gaming desktop, which hasn't even been started up since the kids were born, but it handled everything I could throw at it at full settings... I think its this one: www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130617For Nvidia, I wouldn't buy anything except a XFI or EVGA, and I avoid MSI anything like the plague (video cards, motherboards..)
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Post by Maarek "Steel" Stele on Sept 21, 2012 9:56:19 GMT -5
Thanks for the advice... I've got a very large case and don't think I'll have any heat issues with the fan arrangement I have... I've been running X-Fire since I built the box with no issues. The AMD video cards are fine, I just want to move back to Nvidia and get the latest... I am thinking about running 2 Geforce GTX 660ti 2G in an SLI config...
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nikoliy
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Post by nikoliy on Sept 21, 2012 12:04:24 GMT -5
Hey Maarek, I wouldn't bother with the second 660ti right now. One will run anything you want with full settings. Maybe a year or two down the line you can get a second one to boost performance on newer games. The GTX 460 & 560 dropped in price faster then the 480/580 and the 470/570. Plus with latest SLI you don't need identical cards just same GPU so you don't have to worry about finding the same card later.
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Post by Maarek "Steel" Stele on Sept 21, 2012 12:13:45 GMT -5
Hi Nikoliy, Thank you for the input... got some thinkin and research to do..
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