What GFX to get? 7970, 670, or Titan?

Koda said:
It has come down to 7970 vs Titan now.

Would Titan be totally stupid to buy when I only use 1 monitor and play in resolution 1900x1200? - Remember i want to be able to play all the newest games coming this year on this resolution and with ALL eye candy on MAX!

I'm absolutely sure the 7970 won't be able to meet my wishes
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neither will the titan
get a 690.
 
Koda said:
690.. Really? Thought the titan was the supreme card for the future compared to the 690 :o
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well we can't tell how much the performance of the titan increases with driver updates
but right now the 690 is better
 
Koda said:
It has come down to 7970 vs Titan now.

Would Titan be totally stupid to buy when I only use 1 monitor and play in resolution 1900x1200? - Remember i want to be able to play all the newest games coming this year on this resolution and with ALL eye candy on MAX!

I'm absolutely sure the 7970 won't be able to meet my wishes
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OK take a step back and have a think, man.

You need to remember at all times that Crysis 3 is a stupid game running an engine that really isn't optimised too well.

For everything else at that resolution a 7970 is more than enough. It's literally one game, and over spending by £500 is absolutely nonsensical.

When I decided to go SLI it wasn't because I wanted to run Crysis on max. Spending an additional £400 on a board and extra 670 would have been crazy. I only did it because things are going to change this summer and I doubt I will be in a financial position to spend on my PC for at least a few years so I figured I would get it as high as I could afford so it lasts.

Please, please don't be scared of SLI. It's really rather excellent. You can even go into the Nvidia control panel and set your specific games and apps to use one card if there are problems. It's a great way to save money on games that only run from one card.

Before the 690? I would have said that SLI was still hit and miss. Up until then there was the 590 but Nvidia weren't that fussed about it. Now though? well the 690 is still their flagship and they've been doing their level best to make sure it performs as it should. Not only that but EVGA have taken over the donkey work too, guaranteeing that any game that needs SLI will get full support.

The only thing at that resolution that Titan will get you is a playable Crysis 3 on very high experience. And one game is not worth a £400 outlay.

So my recommendation is still with a pair of 660ti in SLI as they cost half of what Titan does and will beat it at that resolution in anything you could possibly want to throw at it.

Now Crossfire? support hasn't improved it's just gotten worse since AMD decided they weren't going to launch a dual GPU card of their own.
 
Cru3L139 said:
well we can't tell how much the performance of the titan increases with driver updates
but right now the 690 is better
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Titan will never out perform the 690, ever.

There has never been a single GPU card that has come along and beaten a dual GPU card. Not ever in the history of GPUs (unless you count the 3DFX 5500)

The 480 did run the 295 close but that was using completely different technology. Titan is merely an extension to Kepler as it's kepler based.

Titan may be many things but it will never be able to put out the raw computational power of two 104 cores.
 
my 1200w PSU I got "free" from my dealer since my old 800w died suddenly.
The main reason why I don't wanna go SLI / CF is because of 2 things:

1) The NOISE of 2 GFX cards during load will be extremely loud?
2) The power consumption will be twice as high as if I were only using 1 gfx card, doh :) Higher electric bill :/

3) Never tried it before so.. heh.
 
Koda said:
my 1200w PSU I got "free" from my dealer since my old 800w died suddenly.
The main reason why I don't wanna go SLI / CF is because of 2 things:

1) The NOISE of 2 GFX cards during load will be extremely loud?
2) The power consumption will be twice as high as if I were only using 1 gfx card, doh :) Higher electric bill :/

3) Never tried it before so.. heh.
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The noise is hardly any worse than one card. Just make sure you do your research on the motherboard as you will want them spaced as far apart as you can, and the only other thing to make sure is that your board can run SLI.

If it can it will have a logo on, and will run at least 8x8x on the PCIE lanes. If it's any lower SLI won't run.

You also want to get decent cards with good coolers on. Something like this would be absolutely ideal.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/MSI-Nvidia-...CMT8/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1363366273&sr=8-1

Then just bookmark this -

http://www.evga.com/sli/Default.asp

Because EVGA write driver profiles for SLI before Nvidia do.

The only game that I have that didn't run in SLI for a while was Far Cry 3. That was literally it from everything I played.

I'll write up a basic guide on SLI soon when I have some free time. I'll explain how to make sure it works and how to fall back on one card when it doesn't.
 
Avoid Sapphire too their RMA sucks.

I would stick with MSI personally and you don't need 6gb vram it's a total and complete waste of money.
 
Might be a stupid question now but.. Why wouldn't a Titan be a good choice for me since I only use 1 monitor? As far as I understand, the Titan / 690 seems equal, while it seems that the Titan should be better in time with proper drivers and not just beta drivers. That being said, the titan should be able to run all new games the upcoming year and ahead, right? - All I want is to be able to run them on 1920x1200 on max / ultra spec with all eye candy on. And no SLI / CF for me.
 
The Titan is not equal to the 690. The only thing it shares in common is the rough price.

Even if it does get better in drivers it will never ever beat the 690 for logical reasons alone (physical core counts and so on).

I don't know if you knew this but Titan is simply a rebranded server part called a Tesla K20. It also won't clock as high as 6xx cards because it has so much crap that you will never see used bolted onto it.

It sounds to me like you are trying to talk yourself into it. If you have money to throw away then congratulations, but wasting money is always a bad thing no matter how much of it you have.

The 7970 and GTX 680 can run any game at the resolution you are using. Believe it or not you will never EVER see the maximum peformance of Titan @ 1200p or 1080p. Firstly you have 6gb of ram that needs addressing and using and the card only comes into its own on three screens.

Spending £400 extra just to play Crysis 3? well, I'll leave you to figure that one out but you know? you'd be as stupid as it sounds (no offence intended).

If you want to go the extra mile look up the 7970 Lightning or 680 Lightning cards. They're absolutely epic cards and will last you for years if you're really dead set against SLI (and believe me, you're really worrying over nothing).
 
Don't get msi just for rebates ethier... I sent in a 15$ rebate and they said it was invalid and then said things were missing, and yet didn't explain what was missing. They showed me pics of what needs to be sent and how and i followed all thier steps but yet as said previously, wasn't valid :mad:
 
AlienALX said:
The Titan is not equal to the 690. The only thing it shares in common is the rough price.

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In FPS is not equal thats right, but GTX690 is a dual GPU card, and framerates in SLI doesn’t necessarily translate into an acceptable gameplay experience.
 
Blackwhite said:
In FPS is not equal thats right, but GTX690 is a dual GPU card, and framerates in SLI doesn’t necessarily translate into an acceptable gameplay experience.
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That's true but I've not had a single stutter issue in SLI since running it this time with my 670s.

From all of the reviews I've seen of the 690 it's never been commented on that it suffered from any stutter.

There's only one real issue I have had and that's with Fallout 3. If I set it to run from SLI the screen flashes like a strobe. I just disable it in the NV control panel.

Other than that everything seems to work (well, apart from NFS : The Run which won't work in SLI no matter what, but then I don't need it to).
 
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