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Osme:
So my 570 is starting to fall behind, pulling 30fps with newer games, and getting a good number of lag spikes, and Im looking to upgrade. Not necessarily right now, perhaps 6 months from now, perhaps next week, I dont know. Anyhow, Im wondering what would be more cost effective/better choice in general; a second 570 to throw in SLI, or a 660TI/670? Id appreciate opinions on which would be the better choice.

EDIT: Screw the other 570, just thought about vram, which a lot of games are getting dangerously close to busting with 2 monitors. So 66TI or 670?
          Im probably going to give away the 570 to a friend, doubt Ill sell it :s
Or an ATI, which Ive no knowledge about whatsoever, but Ive got nothing against them.

» Magic «:
Don't go with newer gen AMD

fuck me they are so horrible

wish I bought an nvidia instead of this

get the 670

you can sell that 570 quite easily... ebay mang. £150

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Palit-Nvidia-GeForce-GTX-570-Graphics-Card-1-28GB-GDDR5-HDMI-2-x-DVI-I-DP-/271036362500?pt=UK_Computing_Computer_Components_Graphics_Video_TV_Cards_TW&hash=item3f1b06af04

Osme:

--- Quote from: » Magic « on August 16, 2012, 11:00:28 AM ---Don't go with newer gen AMD

fuck me they are so horrible

wish I bought an nvidia instead of this

get the 670

you can sell that 570 quite easily... ebay mang. £150

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Palit-Nvidia-GeForce-GTX-570-Graphics-Card-1-28GB-GDDR5-HDMI-2-x-DVI-I-DP-/271036362500?pt=UK_Computing_Computer_Components_Graphics_Video_TV_Cards_TW&hash=item3f1b06af04

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Im thinking the 660TI myself. I know 570 is fairly cheap now (~200USD), but the 6xx seems to provide some future proofing with VRAM (Isnt doubled with sli ;-;), and better performance than SLI 570's apparently. Besides that, SLI doesnt scale the same with games, not to mention it often scales poorly with unoptimized games. Id like to hear your argument for the 670 over the 660TI, seeing as it doesnt seem to be a phenomenal performance gain for a 33% increase in price. From what I seem it appears to give an average 3+ fps for the higher end games, and those are around 60+ FPS when the settings are at max. I dont see a huge benefit to the 670 personally.

Supertoaster:

--- Quote from: » Magic « on August 16, 2012, 11:00:28 AM ---Don't go with newer gen AMD

fuck me they are so horrible

wish I bought an nvidia instead of this

get the 670

you can sell that 570 quite easily... ebay mang. £150

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Palit-Nvidia-GeForce-GTX-570-Graphics-Card-1-28GB-GDDR5-HDMI-2-x-DVI-I-DP-/271036362500?pt=UK_Computing_Computer_Components_Graphics_Video_TV_Cards_TW&hash=item3f1b06af04

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out of curiosity what is wrong with the newer gen? just bad price for peformance ratio or something?

I've always liked nVidia more even though they seem to price a little bit higher then AMD sometimes.

» Magic «:

--- Quote from: Supertoaster on August 16, 2012, 07:45:00 PM --- out of curiosity what is wrong with the newer gen? just bad price for peformance ratio or something?

I've always liked nVidia more even though they seem to price a little bit higher then AMD sometimes.

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heat issues with more than 1 monitor, god knows what it's like on 3 monitors isntead of 2 (idling at 70 w/ 2 1080p monitors and good case airflow [MSI aftermarket fan] ingame racks up 100 and movies reach 90+*c)
driver problems daily
driver crashes
driver
driver
driver
heat
driver


price/performance is good

if you can put up with heat/driver problems

and have 1 1080p monitor

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