thend005

photopro818

I will take 2 580s over a 590.

Just up the vram in the 580s and make us happy. 

 
+1
 

thend005

Alucard666

thend005

photopro818

I will take 2 580s over a 590.

Just up the vram in the 580s and make us happy. 

+1

so I have a 6 page paper due in a few hours on the Iliad by Homer (movie = Troy) and all i can think about is when can i have my dual 590s non reference designed cards by evga shoved neatly into an evga p67 classy with my new revodrive x2 pci-e ssd running the snow... my old rig sucks, word crashed while i was writing my paper... luckily i save when i get sidetracked...

yo alucard, if that dual 560 card evga had at CES comes out soon, you reckon it'd be worth getting even if just for 90 days until we can step up to the new 590 b4 kepler? 

 
I'd say so.

thend005
so I have a 6 page paper due in a few hours on the Iliad by Homer (movie = Troy)

He's call Homer in the US, like Homer Simpson? We call him Homerus. 

artemys

Brazen_NL

thend005
so I have a 6 page paper due in a few hours on the Iliad by Homer (movie = Troy)

He's call Homer in the US, like Homer Simpson? We call him Homerus. 

Yes he is, here in the US they call him by his name translated and formatted to English rather than the transliteration of his Ancient Greek name, on that note, It's funny when a new Graphics card is coming out and you know you're getting one or you want one and when you should be focusing on something else this somehow creeps into your priorities. Reminds me of High School

Exactly. Although it was a different thing that crept in my mind way back then. 

I'm just glad it's GF114. I just picked up a 560, and I don't want to lose my bitstreaming ability just because I want more FPS when I game

HenryGR

That's not progress. That's cheap marketing

This the the truth. I have worked with companies much like nVidia and it is all a marketing game. We were developed well into the future with marketing plans to structure tiered released.
 
Small tid bits of performance increases here and there, never anything mind blowing or major.
 
The geek in me wishes for a Star Trek like community. Everyone working for the advancement and betterment of humankind. Too much greed and corruption in human beings for that though, maybe one day through genetic conditioning? lol

Pyrophoric

This will most likely cause contention but I have to highly disagree with these statements regarding 1080 vs 1600. You have to be unbelievably anal to see much of a difference between the two ... and yes I have both.

You could call yourself a high end gamer but I think that distinction goes well beyond that point. At some point, resolution and graphics are going to hit point where they have advanced well beyond what a human can even discern. With resolutions, we are getting well into that point depending on the distance.

thats outrageous, 1600p nets you nearly twice the amount of pixels as 1080p. you are very much mistaken. both images might look near the same because you are probably comparing a smaller 1080p monitor to your 30" 1600p. get a 30"1080p and then compare and the difference will be very apparent. the difference between the two is very easy to see, and yes to the human eye. thats like saying 800x600 looks the same as 1920x1080. and i can assure you there is a difference between the two. but if I used 800x600 on a 9" screen, i bet it would look pretty good. Resolutions are by far the biggest graphical steps up there. I can definitetely tell the difference in res, but not so much from 4xAA to 16xAA

Alucard666

cj3waker

Pyrophoric

This will most likely cause contention but I have to highly disagree with these statements regarding 1080 vs 1600. You have to be unbelievably anal to see much of a difference between the two ... and yes I have both.

You could call yourself a high end gamer but I think that distinction goes well beyond that point. At some point, resolution and graphics are going to hit point where they have advanced well beyond what a human can even discern. With resolutions, we are getting well into that point depending on the distance.

thats outrageous, 1600p nets you nearly twice the amount of pixels as 1080p. you are very much mistaken. both images might look near the same because you are probably comparing a smaller 1080p monitor to your 30" 1600p. get a 30"1080p and then compare and the difference will be very apparent. the difference between the two is very easy to see, and yes to the human eye. thats like saying 800x600 looks the same as 1920x1080. and i can assure you there is a difference between the two. but if I used 800x600 on a 9" screen, i bet it would look pretty good. Resolutions are by far the biggest graphical steps up there. I can definitetely tell the difference in res, but not so much from 4xAA to 16xAA

Kinda makes me wanna get some 30" monitors for 3D surround XD

i dont think thats possible yet

sinsear

And this is why I don't get any more than 2 graphics cards.... because in 6-12 months, something faster and cheaper will come along. I think we can all agree that electronics is a terrible thing to invest money in. You buy it for pure enjoyment and expect to lose a lot of money.
 

   +1 

Ironkidz

Here is a solution... just buy another 580 and now you have 4! Just like 2 590s!!!

its k.... thx me ltr

+1

when evga gtx 595 will be on market ?
 
 

I was one of the last people to buy the GTX 295 co-op off of Newegg before they quit making them... that was about one year ago exactly... Granted i feel left behind seeing the gtx480 surpass the 295 in performance and then seeing the 580 and 570 came out.  But I decided to ride my 295s out for atleast another year.  I run two monitors and will be getting a third, not for surround gaming.  I do allot of other stuff in CAD and other graphics programs. 
My plan to extend the life of them is to drop in a 9800gt or gts240 to run my two current monitors and get a slightly nicer monitor to run my Quad GTX295s on for gaming.  Hopefully that will last me until late 2011 or early 2012.

you currently have 2 295s? those are both dual gpus, isnt there some kinda hardware limitation that doesnt allow for anything more than quad GPU set ups. Same goes for Crossfire X (x reprsenting 4 linked GPUs)

i dotn think u can string together more than 4 gpus (1 595 is 2 gpus)  can any1 confirm of amend this??

kommando kodiak

i dotn think u can string together more than 4 gpus (1 595 is 2 gpus)  can any1 confirm of amend this??

That is not what I mean for a folder more GPU's is what counts most so 4 GTX 590's will give a Folder a greater advantage than 4 GTX 580's ;)
 
8x 512 Cuda Cores is always better to fold with than 4x 512 uda Cores, SLI is irrelevant when it comes to folding, it's the amount of Cuda Cores that decides the upper hand, so for the Folder 4x GTX 590 might be the best way out to get the greatest Folding results this also count for any other grazing program like Seti@ Home or ORGR-25-64 :)
 
For a Agmer then it's maybe better to go for 2x GTX 590 OC them to 580+ levels and use a 580 as deticated PhysX it might be overkill but heck on the other side if money is not a problem rofl, or 4x GTX 580 Water cooled I dunno, but Quad SLI will be fast when its supported it's what Iseen by using the 3dfx Voodoo5 6000 & GTX 295 red Ediiton Quad SLI setups.
 
CoD MW2 gave a good example so did all them Source based games and Crysis was also a good one that loves Quad SLI.