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PullusPardus on 16 September 2011
Soleron said:
PullusPardus said:

i've been waiting for this to release, the last GPU AMD made was noisy as hell and sucked a lot of power =/

oh and it was huge,.

What are you even talking about.

http://techreport.com/articles.x/20126/15

The 6970 wasn't especially noisy, consumed a reasonable amount of power and was good value compared to Nvidia competition.

Nvidia's GPU was bigger and used more power.

i'm talking about that Crossfire one, and no i'm not an NVidia fan actually, i wanted to wait for the new generation to come out so i can buy an AMD one, besides the one i have can run almost all games perfectly (except Metro so far)



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Soleron on 16 September 2011
PullusPardus said:
Soleron said:
PullusPardus said:

i've been waiting for this to release, the last GPU AMD made was noisy as hell and sucked a lot of power =/

oh and it was huge,.

What are you even talking about.

http://techreport.com/articles.x/20126/15

The 6970 wasn't especially noisy, consumed a reasonable amount of power and was good value compared to Nvidia competition.

Nvidia's GPU was bigger and used more power.

i'm talking about that Crossfire one, and no i'm not an NVidia fan actually, i wanted to wait for the new generation to come out so i can buy an AMD one, besides the one i have can run almost all games perfectly (except Metro so far)

Well it's the same story when you compare AMD and Nvidia GPUs of similar performance (GTX 570 v 6970 and GTX 590 v 6990). The "Crossfire one" was the 6990 and it about the same on noise and power as the dual-GPU GTX 590. Nvidia's uses a lot greater die area if that's what you meant by bigger.

I agree you shouldn't upgrade if your current card is running everything.



blkfish92 on 16 September 2011

Expensive I'm guessing it'll be.



           

disolitude on 16 September 2011

Hopefully Nvidia releases some new ones too and lowers the price of gtx580 to $250 range. I'd love to add a 3rd one and heat my house this winter... :)



Vetteman94 on 16 September 2011
disolitude said:
Hopefully Nvidia releases some new ones too and lowers the price of gtx580 to $250 range. I'd love to add a 3rd one and heat my house this winter... :)

That would be nice as I just ordered one myself to replace my dead  5870, and I wouldnt hesitate to add a second one.

I cant wait to see how it runs my games.



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JEMC on 16 September 2011
disolitude said:
Hopefully Nvidia releases some new ones too and lowers the price of gtx580 to $250 range. I'd love to add a 3rd one and heat my house this winter... :)

3 SLI... is that really worth it?



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disolitude on 16 September 2011
Vetteman94 said:
disolitude said:
Hopefully Nvidia releases some new ones too and lowers the price of gtx580 to $250 range. I'd love to add a 3rd one and heat my house this winter... :)

That would be nice as I just ordered one myself to replace my dead  5870, and I wouldnt hesitate to add a second one.

I cant wait to see how it runs my games.

I have not been dissapointed. Most of the time I don't even turn SLI on...no point for games like Deuse Ex 3 and Super SF 4.

People always bring up heat but thanks to water cooling I never see it go over 50 degrees.



disolitude on 16 September 2011
JEMC said:
disolitude said:
Hopefully Nvidia releases some new ones too and lowers the price of gtx580 to $250 range. I'd love to add a 3rd one and heat my house this winter... :)

3 SLI... is that really worth it?

At 500 each...no. But if I can find one for 200-250 range + about 100 for water cooling plate and parts...sure.

Mind you single monitor and non 3D Vision gamers dont need 2 gtx 580s let alone 3...



Vetteman94 on 16 September 2011
disolitude said:
Vetteman94 said:
disolitude said:
Hopefully Nvidia releases some new ones too and lowers the price of gtx580 to $250 range. I'd love to add a 3rd one and heat my house this winter... :)

That would be nice as I just ordered one myself to replace my dead  5870, and I wouldnt hesitate to add a second one.

I cant wait to see how it runs my games.

I have not been dissapointed. Most of the time I don't even turn SLI on...no point for games like Deuse Ex 3 and Super SF 4.

People always bring up heat but thanks to water cooling I never see it go over 50 degrees.

How much hotter can 1 GTX 580 get over 2 5870s in Crossfire,  I cant imagine too much more,  plus I am getting a bigger case that has better airflow than the one I got so.  Eventually I may dabble in water cooling but for now I will settle for standard Air cooling.



SnesTea on 17 September 2011

So are we just gonna ignore the HD 6990?