What to buy....

DeepFriedJif

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Hey guys so I'm making a dream machine for gaming/video editing/music editing, and I want to know what GPUs to get. I want a 3 way or 4 way Sli/Crossfire setup because I will be running multi-monitor. I have a 3930k, an ASRock x79 Extreme 11 and will be doing a full loop. I will be getting 64 gigs of RAM. Some is for a RAM disk. Don't worry to much of the other parts they will be top of the line, cream of the crop. I want the GPUs to proform well in games but also help me accelerate mt applications. Should I wait for the 8000 series/700 series, or go with 7970/7990s or 680/690s? Thanks for any help!
 
Wait! trust me the new AMD's are supposed to be awesome! They are already making the mobile versions now so we should have to wait to much longer. Your build sounds great would love to see some pics
 
Wait! trust me the new AMD's are supposed to be awesome! They are already making the mobile versions now so we should have to wait to much longer. Your build sounds great would love to see some pics

That's not true...
The new 8000 series are just 7000 rebrands...

Buy now - but anything over 2 way SLI/Crossfire is pointless, and you'll see decreasing performance results with the more cards you add...
 
That's not true...
The new 8000 series are just 7000 rebrands...

Buy now - but anything over 2 way SLI/Crossfire is pointless, and you'll see decreasing performance results with the more cards you add...
They are making the rebanded models the low end models and the higher end cards like the 8850/70 and 8950/70 will be new cards. I do agree with getting just one card though
 
Other way round I think.

The 8970 is the 7970GHz Edition, 8950 is the 7950 etc...
The lower end cards I believe are new.

But not much has really been announced yet.

And no, I said get SLI/Crossfire, just not more than 2.
 
That's not true...
The new 8000 series are just 7000 rebrands...

Buy now - but anything over 2 way SLI/Crossfire is pointless, and you'll see decreasing performance results with the more cards you add...

Its not just for gaming, its mostly to power the # of monitors, so I NEED the extra cards. There also for accelerating computing.
 
How many monitors exactly?

The number of cards doesn't affect the number of monitors at all...
A GT610 alone will support 4 monitors, and you can get 6 off one 5870.
I personally run 3 screens off a single 670 - and even in gaming it performs perfectly fine.

After you add a third or fourth card to an SLI/Crossfire setup, the cards aren't able to distribute the load efficiently enough and so you stop seeing any improvements in gaming, and many other applications too.

I'd guess though if you're thinking about accelerated computing though, you'd definitely be better off with nvidia over AMD for the Cuda, and I daresay you'd be better off going with a Quadro card over standard cards too.
 
How many monitors exactly?

The number of cards doesn't affect the number of monitors at all...
A GT610 alone will support 4 monitors, and you can get 6 off one 5870.
I personally run 3 screens off a single 670 - and even in gaming it performs perfectly fine.

After you add a third or fourth card to an SLI/Crossfire setup, the cards aren't able to distribute the load efficiently enough and so you stop seeing any improvements in gaming, and many other applications too.

I'd guess though if you're thinking about accelerated computing though, you'd definitely be better off with nvidia over AMD for the Cuda, and I daresay you'd be better off going with a Quadro card over standard cards too.

I was looking into that actually, but I do still want the gaming performance. I also figured the Nvidia cards would work better for what I needed, but I was curious to see if anyone had any info on the new cards or any other suggestions. I will be running 3 AOC IPS i2367Fh monitors in Nvidia Surround/Eyefinity. Also as you seem to be intelligible I know, that you know, that I will most certainly need high end cards to drive high resolution gaming/editing on 3 monitors :P
 
so what appz are you running that needs sick horsepower?

so far, none of them support SLI/X-Fire or trips.. other than fantastic resolutions
you'd need any more than two cards.
 
Other way round I think.

The 8970 is the 7970GHz Edition, 8950 is the 7950 etc...
The lower end cards I believe are new.

But not much has really been announced yet.

And no, I said get SLI/Crossfire, just not more than 2.[/QUOTE
Maybe your your right who knows, too many rumors floating around. And I meant 2 cards wasn't thinking about what I was typing.. more than two cards is pointless imo
 
I appreciate all the feed back, but like I said in the original post this is a dream machine/ extreme machine, this is not even in the ball park of practicality. I am doing this mostly to have a rig that I love to play and work on; but I am partly doing this because I want to build extreme systems for a living as a dream job and I figure I have to have something to show that I do not mess around. Dream setup would be to have 4 dual GPU cards ( 4 x GTX 690/7990/new series equivalent),all liquid cooled and silent, which I understand I can't do ( as for as I can tell ) two of the cards would be normal purpose cards for video editing and games but the other 2 would strictly act as accelerators for computations for things such as F@H or auto-cad or encryption ect. But I digress, again thank you for the feed back. With all that in mind, keep it coming!
 
I appreciate all the feed back, but like I said in the original post this is a dream machine/ extreme machine, this is not even in the ball park of practicality. I am doing this mostly to have a rig that I love to play and work on; but I am partly doing this because I want to build extreme systems for a living as a dream job and I figure I have to have something to show that I do not mess around. Dream setup would be to have 4 dual GPU cards ( 4 x GTX 690/7990/new series equivalent),all liquid cooled and silent, which I understand I can't do ( as for as I can tell ) two of the cards would be normal purpose cards for video editing and games but the other 2 would strictly act as accelerators for computations for things such as F@H or auto-cad or encryption ect. But I digress, again thank you for the feed back. With all that in mind, keep it coming!

Because nothing says you don't mess around like watercooling and playing games......?

Do you actually have intentions to buy all this? You say 'dream' quite a lot...
Comes across more and more that you're taking us all for a ride here.
I mean, 8 GPUs?

Probably best to do some proper research before asking advice on unrealistic, impractical, fantasy specs.
 
Yes, I absolutely do, "Dream machine" is just a way for me to exprese that it is not an average gaming/editing machine :P

Why would I go through the trouble of buying a 500$ processor and a $600 board just to use a 7870 XD
 
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Other way round I think.

The 8970 is the 7970GHz Edition, 8950 is the 7950 etc...
The lower end cards I believe are new.

But not much has really been announced yet.

And no, I said get SLI/Crossfire, just not more than 2.

Those are just for OEM models like Dell, HP, and Lenovo.
 
Because nothing says you don't mess around like watercooling and playing games......?

Do you actually have intentions to buy all this? You say 'dream' quite a lot...
Comes across more and more that you're taking us all for a ride here.
I mean, 8 GPU?

Probably best to do some proper research before asking advice on unrealistic, impractical, fantasy specs.

I'm sorry that you feel this way and I want to appologise if you feel as if I have wasted your time. I hate when other waste mine so I do not want to waste others. As you can see I am new to this forum, although I have long followed TTL, the reason I joined OC3D, the last thing I want to do is anger anyone, espically a senor member such as yourself.
 
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