Upgrade or not?
I use Nvidia or ati, my last rig have 2 4870x2, now I have 2 EVGA GTX 480 in sli.
they work very well, I play games at max details, I have a U2913wm 2560x1080 and a secondary monitor 1280x1024.
Crysis maxed out whit msaa 2x play very nice (I don't say I have 60 FPS, but you don't have any slow down)
bf3, gta4 icehander 3, all play maxed out.
the 480 go strong but they do not have any more to give.
cpu is amd 8120 at 4.5
my mobo have 1x16 and 1x8 for gpus (raid card use 8 lanes)
so I think a dual GPU will be best for the x16 slot and left rom for another dual card in the future (690,7990), I understand the crossfire/sli potentials issues (I make rome total war 2 to use SLI!!!)
dual gtx 780 o dual r9 290 will not go out this year....and the new price drops do to the new releases are nice.
so: 2 gtx 680? 1 gtx 690? 2 7970? 1 7990?
so far the 7990 is the cheaper.
I hope you could share some info and point out my errors.
PD : PSU 1600W 220 at the wall
I use Nvidia or ati, my last rig have 2 4870x2, now I have 2 EVGA GTX 480 in sli.
they work very well, I play games at max details, I have a U2913wm 2560x1080 and a secondary monitor 1280x1024.
Crysis maxed out whit msaa 2x play very nice (I don't say I have 60 FPS, but you don't have any slow down)
bf3, gta4 icehander 3, all play maxed out.
the 480 go strong but they do not have any more to give.
cpu is amd 8120 at 4.5
my mobo have 1x16 and 1x8 for gpus (raid card use 8 lanes)
so I think a dual GPU will be best for the x16 slot and left rom for another dual card in the future (690,7990), I understand the crossfire/sli potentials issues (I make rome total war 2 to use SLI!!!)
dual gtx 780 o dual r9 290 will not go out this year....and the new price drops do to the new releases are nice.
so: 2 gtx 680? 1 gtx 690? 2 7970? 1 7990?
so far the 7990 is the cheaper.
I hope you could share some info and point out my errors.
PD : PSU 1600W 220 at the wall
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