7970 tri xfire or stick with 580 3gb tri sli

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BeholdtheMightySpoon

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I decided to replace my 2500k gaming rig with SB-e 3930k on a MSI BigBang xpower2. Now the important question triple cards 7970 or 580 3gb. I already have a Evga ftw hydro copper2 so price wise it's only 2 cards instead of 3 7970s plus 3 waterblocks. My main worry is what sent me to the green team in the first place the suck ass catalyst drivers. I've seen some strange bench marks where tri fire performance is dissapointing at best i'm going to be running it on 3 x 30" monitors on 4800x2560 protrait so any help would be appreciated.
 
stick with what ya got and wait til kepler releases or add a 2nd 580GTX for SLi madness. I want to get the ultra classified myself
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but 719$ is a bit outta my price range atm.
 
A few weeks after Kepler all the prices should start be shaken up and you may find you can get 3 7970s for the price of one. If you have no problems with your current set up don't rush it.
 
3 x 7970s = better than 3 x 580s especially at higher resolutions and even more so when overclocked.

If you can afford it, go for it, but the performance increase isn't going to be massive but there would still be one. Like others have said, Kepler is coming soon so it might be worth waiting to see how it performs and how prices change as well.

As for drivers, when you go over two cards it doesn't matter whether it's AMD or Nvidia, they both suck. And for single cards, just as many people have probs with Nvidia as they do AMD, fanboys will have you think otherwise though.
 
3 x 30" screens.... i never really looked at benchmarks for that resolution (if they exist
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) lol obviously money is no object but personally i think u'll have to wait because no cards will play games very well at that resolution
 
mrDMxtreme said:
3 x 30" screens.... i never really looked at benchmarks for that resolution (if they exist
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) lol obviously money is no object but personally i think u'll have to wait because no cards will play games very well at that resolution
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Yea money isn't holding me back on this build and i'm not looking for maximum fps but minimum fps of say 30 or 35 in the witcher 2, metro 2033, black ops zombies, MW3, and BF3
 
I just ordered 2 more 580's and a caselabs th10 if I don't get tunnel vision again i'll do a build log this time around. Decided I wanted instant gratification and wait to see what comes around with kepler and maybe upgrade in the fall. Ahh the insanity of a high end pc enthusast.
 
SieB said:
As for drivers, when you go over two cards it doesn't matter whether it's AMD or Nvidia, they both suck. And for single cards, just as many people have probs with Nvidia as they do AMD, fanboys will have you think otherwise though.
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That's a bit counter-productive for a guy about to spend a huge wedge of cash on something he's asking advice on.

There are people out there who use both manufacturers cards in 1s, 2s and 3s professionally and for gaming who may disagree (I know I used to but there's been a few improvements both sides, but I do have recommendations for different requirements) and won't throw in their opinion incase you brand them a fanboy.

I'd rather regular users of tri xli throw in their opinion and let the op decide, without predudice.

(Single cards ftw btw)
 
ExtremeBB said:
What NvidiA bad drivers
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, so why am I having No problems at all ?!
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That kinda depends.

If you're a person who upgrades their drivers every single time there's one released - you could be in agreement.

nVidia tend to have ranges of drivers that are in test/readiness for cards to come (6xx etc in todays cases) that 'may' help the 5xx series, but are "compatible" with the 4xx,3xx(whoops no one saw them) and have bad effects on those below. And 3rd party pcb cards can be notorious.

Used to be that xxx.00 -> xxx.49 drivers were "test" and "fix" ones, whereas xxx.50 -> xxx.99 were solid. (well as solid as anything written for windows can be).

The xxx very strictly speaking, should reflect the number of the drivers that were release when your card was. Below and it won't know it. Above and it's thinking of the newer cards more than yours.

But it can be a lottery. There can be a specific driver release for a certain game, even then tho it can break/fix others as they're concentrating on something else.

You can have something as simple as a fan cooling curve vanish for your card in a new driver release. That's happened before now.

They are written by humans....
 
SieB said:
I don't know, why aren't the many people with AMD not having problems either?
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So you just said that without any backUp ?>

this is just great i am NO fanboy at all , i was just wondering this
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/goes back to the F@H section , meh....
 
ExtremeBB said:
So you just said that without any backUp ?>

this is just great i am NO fanboy at all , i was just wondering this
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/goes back to the F@H section , meh....
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I wasn't saying that there are any one set of bad drivers in particular that are bad, what I was saying is that just as many people with Nvidia have driver problems as they do with AMD
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and I never said you were a fanboy.

I have never had problems with AMD drivers but there are people that have and the same goes for people with Nvidia cards. Just because you haven't had any problems doesn't mean other people haven't either.
 
It's not like i just put the thread to ignore the advice. But all the advice said the same thing wait for kepler or amd drivers to mature. And while I wait I have 6 thousand dollars of monitors I can't use since 1 580 just dosen't cut it and really cash isn't an issue for a system in whole that has exceed 14 thousand dollars. hell i have just over 400 dollars in fans alone.
 
I forgot I'm not a fanboy of amd(ati), intel, or nvidia. In the last 2 years I have had a amd 955be with a 5870. i7 970 hexcore with both single and dual gtx590, gtx 460, and a powercolor lcs 6990. And my last system i5 2500k with the same 590's and the evga gtx 580 ftw hc 2, thats is now in my i7 3930k rig. Now that i think about it I'm a card carring member of the more money than brains club.
 
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