Personally I'm waiting for a Non-Reference 4GB GTX 680. I'm thinking this time around I'll go with an EVGA liquid cooled card and save me the bother of fitting my own blocks. Works out a little bit more expensive this way but time is worth more to me than the upfront cost of the cards.
GTX680 wait for non reference or buy it now?
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Well I upgraded from a GTX 480 to a GTX 680, and the improvement was amazing.
At 1920x1080 with the Ultra setting's and max AF/AA I was getting between 35fps to 45fps on the GTX 480 whilst using around 1.3gb of Vram temp's were around 89c.
Same setting's on the GTX 680 gives me between 65fps to 75fps using 1.5gb of Vram, temp's are around 78c and the card cannot be heard when wearing headphones.
I am going to get a 2nd card at some point for when I eventually go for Triple monitor's, and overclock them once they are cooled under water.
My current card will do +175 on the core and +300 on the ram without touching the power setting's, if I mess with the power setting's it will go further but whilst it is on air I don't want to push it to far.
Really it is down to whether you want/need the card's that come with 4gb of ram, but if I had a GTX 580 I wouldn't have upgraded and instead I would have just grabbed another GTX 680 as the GTX 580's in sli give better performance that a single GTX 680.
At 1920x1080 with the Ultra setting's and max AF/AA I was getting between 35fps to 45fps on the GTX 480 whilst using around 1.3gb of Vram temp's were around 89c.
Same setting's on the GTX 680 gives me between 65fps to 75fps using 1.5gb of Vram, temp's are around 78c and the card cannot be heard when wearing headphones.
I am going to get a 2nd card at some point for when I eventually go for Triple monitor's, and overclock them once they are cooled under water.
My current card will do +175 on the core and +300 on the ram without touching the power setting's, if I mess with the power setting's it will go further but whilst it is on air I don't want to push it to far.
Really it is down to whether you want/need the card's that come with 4gb of ram, but if I had a GTX 580 I wouldn't have upgraded and instead I would have just grabbed another GTX 680 as the GTX 580's in sli give better performance that a single GTX 680.
Blackwhite
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I had SLI once and I said never again.There was always some problems with SLI setup, or temps, or drivers or microshootering , that why I prefer single card.
What make is your 680?
What make is your 680?
Mine is a MSI GTX 680.
I have never noticed any issues with games when running sli, except with Need For Speed Carbon.
1st SLI was 7600GT's
2nd SLI was 8800GTS's 320Mb versions
3rd SLI was 8800GTS's 512Mb versions
4th SLI was GTX280's
5th SLI was GTX 580's
Had the 580's in a PC that I sold due to various reason's.
