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hey all, just wanted some info on dual gfx cards. As and when i buy the rig i’m considering i’ll be putting an nvidia GTX 770 2mb card in it as it seems a no brainer to go with the newest card within my budget. I was wondering when in some point in the future the price of that card inevitably comes down as a newer card is released etc, what gains would i see from putting two of them into my rig in a SLI (think that’s the right one for nvidia) configuration?
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It varies from game to game. Some games, such as bf3/bf4 scale very well with sli where goubcould have ur framrates double. Others you may only see a 20% rise.
Others it will just fuck up all the time as they never keep drivers updated properly.
I would say avoid this… it smacks of marketing genius to me.
Some applications make sense – i.e. stalker is playing over 3 screens I think – when you start doing that kind of stuff then it might make sense.
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Others it will just fuck up all the time as they never keep drivers updated properly.
I would say avoid this… it smacks of marketing genius to me.
Some applications make sense – i.e. stalker is playing over 3 screens I think – when you start doing that kind of stuff then it might make sense.
Now it’s not very often I agree with Doc…. but in this case I do tend to agree and this is from personal experience of running SLi. Based on my experience i only got around 10- 15% max and that was depending on the game and when you look at the cost vs performance gain it is a bit of marketing hype.
That’s not to say it doesn’t work, it does, just not as well as the marketing would have you believe.
I’m running SLI 680’s at the moment which are basically the same as the 770’s you’re looking at. Performance wise they are excellent and I’ve never had any scaling issues but a single card solution is always going to be better. 2GB of vram isn’t really that much either. At 1440p, I can’t run BF4 with ultra settings as I run out of vram, even with no AA at all which is a bit annoying really as the GPUs have the power to do it.
If you are just running at 1080p then I’d personally be looking at a single 780 if you want an nvidia card. You can pick up a gigabyte windforce pre overclocked version for less then £400.
Cheers Gary and Pharty, that was back in June and since then I’ve bought a new pc with a single 770GTX which is working out fine on my 1280×1024 19″ monitor. Thankfully I’ll be upgrading that in the next two weeks to a 23″ full HD monitor though hope that the gfx card will still run at ultra settings on that res?
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