Need help with GPU

[Hobojew]

Hello guys as my topic says I need help.

Well this is the case: I have a GTX 680 DirectCUII card from Asus, but Im curious if i should buy a GTX 690, is it worth the money or is it only a waste of money to get one?

Reason for why I want one is most because of the "sexy" Green light from the logo.

Thanks in beforehand and excuse my lack of english skills.

 

[SeekaX]

it's a waste of money if you already own a 680. just get a second one, it will be blasting a 690.

 

[remember300]

Two 680's should out perform a 690 in most things depending on the clocks and vram

 

[Hobojew]

Well, my only issues is space for the most part

 

[SeekaX]

mate is that an matx board? it looks very small.
/edit
looked it up, it is. why would you do that?

 

[remember300]

if sapce is an issue im sure you could sell your 680 for some money towards a 690

 

[alienware]

By all means do the upgrade but you need to remember that you will have to rely on drivers to get the SLI working properly and that can be a pain.

It took forever for Nvidia to finally release a driver that made Far Cry 3 scale properly. I tried the hack but it didn't work for me (well, it showed SLI being used but I saw no increase in frames per second).

 

[SeekaX]

By all means do the upgrade but you need to remember that you will have to rely on drivers to get the SLI working properly and that can be a pain.

It took forever for Nvidia to finally release a driver that made Far Cry 3 scale properly. I tried the hack but it didn't work for me (well, it showed SLI being used but I saw no increase in frames per second).

/offtopic
just curious, why the xeon?

 

[alienware]

/offtopic
just curious, why the xeon?

A few reasons tbh.

I don't overclock and when I bought it it was cheaper than the equivalent I5 yet uses way less power due to not having an onboard GPU. IIRC I paid £145 last July and the I5 2400 was £160. The Xeon has the same cache as an I7 which at the time was £200 or more for the 2600.

I had a set amount of money to get me away from my I7 950 and it wasn't much. My I7 board was starting to die on me so I just went with a £28 MSI micro ATX board with the Xeon in and reserved the rest of my budget for the GTX 670. Which tbh I should never have bought as I had two 480s in SLI but the cooler I was using leaked (Coolit Eco 1) and ruined my top 480 and the board.

It's a decent little cpu tbh. Whilst my old I7 at 4ghz was faster in benchmarks and stuff the Xeon kicks its ass in gaming. Sandybridge clockspeeds translate far better than the old cores. The other problem was heat. My old I7 was a really hot CPU and not very good for overclocking. Whilst I could get it to 4ghz it got extremely hot and was only around 5c away from the max temp.

Given I've never been into overclocking (well, not since the Athlon XP) I chose it on features and stuff alone vs price

Oh and the temps are marvelous. 25c at idle on a Coolit Eco II (Corsair H60) and top out around 45c lol. Much better for summer gaming so that my room doesn't turn into a sweatbox

 

[Hobojew]

Well, thank you for your time guys! Helped me out a little