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lilc64 on 12 August 2010
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SleepWaking said:
lilc64 said:
1337 Gamer said:

I would suggest you buy a single GTX 470 or a 480 rather than SLI two 460s. Some games have issues with SLI and crossfire. But thats just my suggestion.


I agree buy the single card solution never go SLI or crossfire. As far as cards I'd go ATi 5870 or Nvidia 480 if you can afford them. And its personal preference but 8 gigs of ram is a waste, I'd stick to 4gigs its more than enough to max all games at 1920x1200 AAmax AFmax.Cut some things and get the better video card i say. Also if you did go ati you need to look into another MB and what power supply you are using.

I just read this article (it's in Dutch but you can still read the graphs) and it's basically saying that you get a little bit more performance out of 2 GTX460's in SLI than a stand alone GTX480 and that if you were considering the GTX480 you should really look into the option of 2 GTX460's. It's also a little bit cheaper. Now I have 2 8800GT's in SLI and I never ran into any serious problems (only that they are noisy).

Maybe I'll stick to 4 gig of ram then, but I do make custom maps and levels in the Cry-Engine and that always takes up lots of memory (I can't always make what I want now because of memory shortage). Plus I like to use crazy texture mods.


Understood man, if you've had SLI and you like it i say go for it. A buddy of mine let me build his computer and i talked him into the dual card solution, it was fast but it suffered from microshuttering(on x2 cards dont know about single sli cards). Microshuttering is the biggest reason i always stick with a single gpu but it doesnt bother some. As far as ram goes it is your choice but 4gigs of DRR3 1600 or higher should be plenty for anyjob, dont shoot me for asking this but you are running an OS that supports that much ram right? I knew guys installing 6 gig of ram when xp only used 3.5.