im stuck on what gpu to buy my budget is £400 but when looking around the net the consensus seems to be between 580 the 570 and the 560 sli but didnt know if any one out there could help i play at 1920 x 1200 res and as much as it pains me i do like the sli option, and also im looking at watercooling the card or cards
Personally i would, and did get a single GTX580, Sure it's more expensive, but it's damn powerful, and in the week i had to play with it before selling my case in prep for a new one, it didn't even sweat with games like GTA4, Crysis at 2560*1600. Sam Ninja Edit, 4000th Post, woo
It's boxed atm, Was air, and will be water. Temps from the top of my head were around 70ish with one of the Benchmarks I've got a Gigabyte GTX580, found on ebay, new and sealed for £350, seen others for roughly £10/£20 more, or you buy new from a store, which will be closer to £400. Waterblocks are £70 from Aquatuning and Scan Sam
my vote would be for sli 560's. It is MUCH better than the 580 performance wise. So why not that? The drivers are pretty good for it too. Get that a u wont need to upgrade till dx12 comes out. If its gtx 580 then u may say the same for that, sli it when it gets cheaper, but when it is cheaper dx12 will be out, would u really want to?
I disagree shau. Here's why: 2 GTX560 ti's will cost the same, if not more than a single GTX580, 2*560 Cards will use more power than a single 580, and will give off more heat. Not a very good start. The biggest issue is that SLI doesn't give double the power. Sam
If you got good enough case cooling, a decent 850W+ PSU and possibly a headset, then go SLI GTX480 for £400 would be the most bang for bucks: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-222-AS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1750
@ sam yes it might give off more heat and use more energy. But overall it is much better, 370 for 2 560's? and 1 580 is about 370? Im sure its about the same in price. If you look at the benchmarks, it beats 1 580 at nearly all games, and by a lot too not a little. Sli is good now, it is nearly double the performance, its not how it use to be.
hahaha Marine is clever, that would be over kill solution. Only downfall is the 480's use a lot of power and run very hot compared to the 5xx series. Otherwise that 400 pounds would be killer.
Hey, if GTX480 doesn't have those issues, then at £200 it would practically make GTX570 a pointless buy at £270~ lol And the OP did mention watercooling, so heat and noise ain't gonna be an issue; you simply can't get greater graphic power at £400 than SLI GTX480. And performance wise, GTX480 actually outperform the GTX570 in some games because of its higher frame buffer.
Ah, I stand corrected, just found a good review, and seems things have moved along since i last looked. I'm sticking with the GTX580 though. Sam
