drhealthfitness
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Saturday, February 26, 2011 6:26 PM
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Hi All,
I was wondering what the advantages are of 3-way SLI vs 2-way SLI? The third graphics card adds a lot more heat, power requirements, and costs another 520.00... just wondering what the performance differences are between 2 vs 3 in SLI.
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Re:2-way SLI vs 3-way SLI
Saturday, February 26, 2011 7:20 PM
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drhealthfitness
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Re:2-way SLI vs 3-way SLI
Saturday, February 26, 2011 7:59 PM
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Thank-you, wow those were some serious reviews. I think I'll go with dual 580's instead of three 580's... seems to make sense, even though I have the assassin and an 1100 W PS, I'm still only going dual...
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Re:2-way SLI vs 3-way SLI
Saturday, February 26, 2011 8:32 PM
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The 60,000 question is what res will you be gaming at? If you have just one monitor IMHO 2xSLI is MORE then enough. 3 screens.... then we have a different story.
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Re:2-way SLI vs 3-way SLI
Saturday, February 26, 2011 8:36 PM
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Dell 30" 2560 x 1600
Currently using a 3 year old computer with dual 8800 GTX in sli and the absolute GARBAGE Asus Striker Extreme MB that is the worst motherboard in all of history. I haven;t been able to shut this computer off in a year cause it takes 45 minutes to boot. won;t overclock, just garabage... anyway, this new computer should be nice... Wonder what kind of diff I will notice...
This assasing G1 sitting in front of me lools sweet... got dual Sata 3 Plextor 128 GB SSD's... raid 0 should be nice. I guess I can live with dual SLI 580 GTX...
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Re:2-way SLI vs 3-way SLI
Saturday, February 26, 2011 8:55 PM
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THe difference will be massive. I have 3 30's and only 2 580's. If I were you I'd actually try one and see how that works for you. With the 590's inbound make sure you get EVGA in case we can step up.
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drhealthfitness
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Re:2-way SLI vs 3-way SLI
Sunday, February 27, 2011 1:17 AM
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I wonder when the 590's are coming? I have a feeling its not going to be for another 6 months... Step up is only good for 90 days from purchase... I did buy the EVGA though...
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Re:2-way SLI vs 3-way SLI
Sunday, February 27, 2011 1:21 AM
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drhealthfitness
I wonder when the 590's are coming? I have a feeling its not going to be for another 6 months... Step up is only good for 90 days from purchase... I did buy the EVGA though...
Your SLI GTX 580's will be cheaper and faster than the GTX 590.
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Re:2-way SLI vs 3-way SLI
Sunday, February 27, 2011 1:23 AM
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Yes, but I would use step up to replace both and have dual 590....
they would have to be released 90 days from yesterday for me to step up to dual 590: so have to be released by end of May...
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Re:2-way SLI vs 3-way SLI
Sunday, February 27, 2011 1:35 AM
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You know a GTX 590 is a dual GTX 570 card utilizing a single slot, right? It will be slower than two GTX 570's. So two GTX 590's would be close to a Quad GTX 570's setup. There might be driver issues like the 295's had for about a year using one card, let alone two.
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