New Gaming Rig Help Appreciated

[vlad321]

SleepWaking said:

vlad321 said:

SleepWaking said:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce-gtx-460-sli-geforce-gtx-480,2694.html

I think i'll stick with 2 GTx460's in SLI, sorry guys.

If you want future proofing you get 1 GTX 480, and down the road in a few years when the single card isn't enough you SLI that. Currently you are already at the peak of what your system can do without buying a whole new set of cards. Also by the time that a single 480 isn't enough, they will be down in price. But whatever floats your boat.

The thing is always when I do want to upgrade then there are always newer and better graphic cards that beat 2 of the old even in SLI. Most of the time they aren't even much more expensive. Also I don't really like the power usage and warmth the GTX 480 produces.

The whole point is that the GT lines scale extremely well, in some games over 100%. So unless the future graphics cards have more than twice the power of a 480 you should be good. Also you are making absolutely NO sense. The heat and the powerusage of two 460s are higher than that of a single GTX 480. If you are so worried about those then just get a single GTX 480.

I don't know how you have set your mind on this but I can guarantee you that your cards will need to be upgraded around the same time that you will need to buy a 2nd GTX 480, and you will have to buy those new expensive ones to replace them instead of getting a, by then, cheaper one. But if you don't want to futureproof your PC that's your choice.