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Currently i am running Evga Gtx 460 OC SLI. What would be the best upgrade and bang for the buck. I been looking at benchmarks but its hard to tell. Was looking at a single GTX 580.
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Re:What would be the best upgrade...
Tuesday, June 05, 2012 11:09 PM
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Re:What would be the best upgrade...
Tuesday, June 05, 2012 11:39 PM
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Your SLI 560's are the same if not slightly better than a single 580. Only advantage of the 580 is the higher VRAM. Your still spending almost $400 on a new GTX580 looking at NewEgg. The base model of the GTX670 2GB from EVGA is $420. The one with the Custom Cooler is only $400. Get your post count up you can resell your GTX460's on the EVGA Market place and get some of your money back.
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Re:What would be the best upgrade...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012 0:09 PM
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don't really have budget, but i don't wanna upgrade if i am not going to notice a difference.
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Re:What would be the best upgrade...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012 1:23 AM
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Well, what games and what resolution?
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Re:What would be the best upgrade...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012 1:33 AM
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Also what are the rest of your system's specs?
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Re:What would be the best upgrade...
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Re:What would be the best upgrade...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012 2:33 AM
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Are you having any issues with your games?
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Re:What would be the best upgrade...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012 2:48 AM
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Opps forgot that part. i play mostly Diablo 3 now, BF3, League of Lengends. They all play fine on High settings. With the new monitor i got i notice my fans going a little faster, my cards are running at like 72c when playing now. not 100% what it was before. I had to add a 120mm intake fan to get it to 72c it was at 80 before. i was looking into water cooling for my GTX 460 is how this all started looking at new cards. I havn't found a water block in stock for it so i kind of gave up on that idea.
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Re:What would be the best upgrade...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012 3:16 AM
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You could go this route for your GTX 460's.
Otherwise, i'd just get the GTX 580.
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Re:What would be the best upgrade...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012 5:23 AM
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Opps forgot that part. i play mostly Diablo 3 now, BF3, League of Lengends. They all play fine on High settings. With the new monitor i got i notice my fans going a little faster, my cards are running at like 72c when playing now. not 100% what it was before. I had to add a 120mm intake fan to get it to 72c it was at 80 before. i was looking into water cooling for my GTX 460 is how this all started looking at new cards. I havn't found a water block in stock for it so i kind of gave up on that idea.
Have you tried creating a custom fan profile using a program like evga precision x or msi afterburner? try running your gpu fan at 100% with one of those apps and see where your temps are at. Instead of investing in waterblocks for the 460s you should sell the cards and get a 480($219.99), 500(570 -$269.99, 580$379.99) series card, or 600(670-$399.99, 680-$499.99) series card and get it over with. If you're spending $350+ for a 580, you might as well get a 670.
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Re:What would be the best upgrade...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012 6:08 AM
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i will have to look into that. i know my motherbroad has alot of extras i don't take advantage. Thanks for the info
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Re:What would be the best upgrade...
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Re:What would be the best upgrade...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012 10:53 AM
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Don't buy a 580..... a 670 destroys it in every way.
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Re:What would be the best upgrade...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012 11:29 AM
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Grab a Radeon HD 7950 or HD 7970.
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Re:What would be the best upgrade...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012 1:23 PM
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Yeah, i'd probably be buying a HD7950 if I were in the market for a upgrade from the current cards you have.
Didn't know if you planned on getting that GTX 580 brand new or not. I know they are not too expensive off the EVGA marketplace from time to time. But yeah... Don't buy a new one, if you want Nvidia, definitely just wait it out and buy a GTX 660Ti when those come out. It'll be a little bit, so you should have enough time to save up for maybe two of them.
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Re:What would be the best upgrade...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012 2:00 PM
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Go for a GTX670 FTW. It has more VRAM, less power consumption, and better performance than a GTX580. It beats the 580 in BF3 at ~your resolution by a decent margin. I would only consider a 580 if it was ~$300 at this point, and only if it was brand new.
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Re:What would be the best upgrade...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012 2:52 PM
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wow the 670 does smash it, well if i upgrade i will get one of those.
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Re:What would be the best upgrade...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012 7:06 PM
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wow the 670 does smash it, well if i upgrade i will get one of those.
Good choice, beware of the SC models. There have been numerous reports of them being unstable so go for a vanilla 670 or ftw 670.
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Re:What would be the best upgrade...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012 7:56 PM
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thanks for the heads up, i guess the 2 gig cards are pretty good. i am sure the 4 gig ones are a small fortune
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Re:What would be the best upgrade...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012 8:57 PM
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thanks for the heads up, i guess the 2 gig cards are pretty good. i am sure the 4 gig ones are a small fortune
At your current resolution of 1920x1080, the 2GB model should be fine. I run my games maxed out with 4xMSAA, FXAA and anything I can add fine with two 480s with 1.5GB of vram at 1920x1080. I was even fine before with 1.25GB 470s.
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Re:What would be the best upgrade...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012 8:57 PM
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wow the 670 does smash it, well if i upgrade i will get one of those. Be careful with your expectations, those performance benchmarks use a Sandy Bridge 6-core at 4.3GHz, the performance may not scale the same with your Bloomfield at stock 3GHz. Remember, CPU runs your game and tells your GPU what to draw, that is how all programs (and games) work. You can't just upgrade one part and get awesome results unless the upgrade was independent (like an SSD or better internet) or if your system was unbalanced in the first place, i.e. if your system had integrated graphics and you upgraded to a dedicated card. What you're planning is an even faster dedicated card in the hope of getting some improvement. Note: I'm not suggesting you won't get any improvement, but I do suggest you learn to overclock your i7-950 unless you plan to change the CPU+mobo. No, you won't need a 6-core, I'm just saying don't expect what you see in reviews without considering the specific of what was tested compared to your setup.
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Re:What would be the best upgrade...
Wednesday, June 06, 2012 9:04 PM
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^In addition to what he said, I think a 3.4-3.6Ghz is a perfect overclock for you to take advantage of a single 600 series card. Also that level of an overclock shouldn't be a problem as long as you aren't running a stock intel cooler. You can get a 670 and see what your performance is compared to others and if you seem like yours isn't up to par with others, try a 3.2Ghz overclock, then 3.4, then 3.6Ghz and so on and see if that helps.
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Re:What would be the best upgrade...
Thursday, June 07, 2012 4:47 AM
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All good info guys. i been at looking at the consair H80 and the H100 and for my CPU so i can try and push it to 4ghz. I have a ThemralTake SpinQ VT cooling it now. Pretty sure i could push 3.6 with it.
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