Building the most powerful and smallest possible gaming PC

[zarx]

goddog said:

zarx said:

CGI-Quality said:

Being the tech savvy guy you are, I'm sure you understand!

I understand that you are INSANE! And have far too much money lol.

But seriously I would suggest reading this before you decide on that 

http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphics/41581-nvidia-geforce-gtx-690-sli-surround/?page=3

Personally I don't think the extra cost, power drain, heat, and noise is worth the performance gains. But that is just me. Personally i would spend the money on a a couple of SSDs and raid them for ultimate performance.

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/51455-intel-520-240gb-ssd-raid-0-performance-review.html

I have to agree the cost/perform is way out of whack on those. if you going to spluge a 512 m4 crucial ssd go  for 350-400 right now... buy your self 3 680 or if your really going to drop the cash on sli prior series muti gpu configs found that 2 had issues with micro stutter  but generally gave a great boost (one 690) where 3 fixed almost all of it and gave a small performance gain while 4 (two 690 is really a 4 way sli) gave no statistical benifit over 3. also the 690 are hella over priced this gen

Once you relise he told me he only plans to use one 1080p monitor, it seems even more insane. I have told him a couple times at that resolution a GTX680 is more than enough or any game out today max settings 60fps. He seems to be commited to going all out on his first PC tho. And at the end of the day it's his money. Personally the fact that not all games have SLI profiles, the poor scaling in some games (and less than 90% in many), plus microstuttering, increased heat/Power consumption etc is enough reason to stay away from SLI alltogether. Then again I thought my 560 TI was expensive lol.

Unless I had the money/space for a tripple monitor, or a 3D monitor, in those situations SLI makes sense.