I love dual-GPU cards, I got like 3 9800 GX2's from ebay for like $80 US. One powers my media center, one my dad's rendering desktop, the other is a spare. So I was browsing around and I found EVGA's GTX 560 2win (aka the GTX 585) and was wondering if anyone had experience with this card. My GTX 460 1gb has a gimpy fan and is suffering from severe heat damage due to an idiot friend of mine booting up my computer and closing Afterburner with my custom fan profile. Temps regularly hit 70c idle and 95c playing even low impact games. It's even underclocked a lot to save heat. Anyways I was looking to upgrade to either a 560 ti or a 560 ti 448-core and saw this little beauty when I was browsing Newegg. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130737&Tpk=GTX 560 ti 2win so I was wondering if anyone has used one of these and can tell me how it feels while playing mid-high intensity games from a little while ago like Crysis 1, Half-Life 2 Cinematic 64-bit, Just Cause 2, Painkiller, and a bunch of others I can't be bothered to name all of. Monitor is 1920x1200, but I eventually want to get a 2560x1440 display (u2711, 27" LED Cinema Display) so I guess if you have one of those too I'd love to know performance. Cheers
Personally for futureproofing I'd go for something with more memory, 1GB per chip is a little limited for some of the newer games. Especially if you want to go to 2560. 9800GX2 in a media server? power draw must be high.
Yeah it's hot and noisy and the #1 generator of noise in my otherwise almost silent HTPC. I'm probably going to pull it and put in something a little more reasonable like a 6450 or GT 520 or 240 or 430 or *insert awesome head exploding noise here* But seriously I'll probably just get a gtx 560 ti as a stopgap and wait for the 600 series. I've tried AMD cards and I just can't deal with the Vision Engine control center, even if the 7xxx is as glorious as everyone says. Hey wait if I pull that GX2 out and hook it together with my spare GX2(quad SLI awww yeah), will that play modernish games well enough until the 600 series comes out? I'm not getting the display until probably way after that so I wouldn't mind, as long as it will play at 1920x1200 at high-ish I'm okay.
I used to have 2x 9800GTX+'s in SLI and whilst they were powerful enough to play modern games, 512MB made it jerky when more memory was needed. Quad SLI would be overkill for power but still have the same problems, if not more. Would be fun to try though. I'd recommend a 2GB 560TI with the possibility of SLI-ing in the future, if your MB supports it?
Yeah my MB supports SLI unofficially. Officially it only supports CFX, but it's been confirmed to work with an SLI finger from another board. A 2gb 560 ti hmmmmm? Well they're not much more expensive than the 1gb version and when I get that sexy sexy big screen it will probably help out a lot. Are there any benchmarks of it at more than 1920x1080? A quick google turned up nothing so I dunno.
If you're using the MSI P55-GD65 then it does support SLI out of the box. Most of the 2GB reviews I've seen haven't really used games at resolutions that would really test the additional memory but 1GB has been the norm for some time so I expect as we see more and more cards with bigger memory as standard it will come in useful, esp at 2560.
Here's a good review I found: http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/foru...-geforce-gtx-560-ti-2win-dual-gpu-review.html Performs better than a GTX 580 in nearly everything and comes in just behind 570's in SLI
