i sure hope so, but i won't be able to buy it this month, have locked all my pennies into ISA. (saving up for deposit of a house) have to wait until payday.
one, i don't believe in multi-GPU. well, i may get one, i may get a gtx480 second hand. depend on the person's 480's price compared to this one's price.
well, it makes sense now as the PC is solely used for gaming. over 50% of PC on-time is gaming at the moment. before, it was because gaming is about 20% of the PC's uses, other times are spent mostly desktop idle. so it doesn't make sense to have 2 graphics cards sucking power. the main negative for me is that you spend 2x the money for about 1.7x performance. and you may have to fiddle around. i'd rather spend a little bit more (compared to two lower card) for best current card, then it's just click the game to play. after 580's launch, how much do you guys think a reference 480 should cost?
I did a furmark bench the other day on one card and on two cards and the performance increase was closer to double. TBH I haven't seen any 2nd hand 480's yet but my guess is that within the first couple of months of the 580 release you will start to see 2nd hand 480's going maybe upto £50 cheaper. As for the reviews I'm going to wait for my mate in the US to do a review on them he tends to be a bit more real world with his findings and less bias.
We should take bets on how long it'll take for the GTX 570 to appear. I'm in market for a £260ish card and it seems like they're releasing everything except a card at my pricepoint. I don't believe the 6870 will be powerful enough to last longer than a few months until it starts to show its age.
Most current games; my concern is what happens when something comes out in 6 months and the card starts to struggle.
As long as current generation consoles are kickin' you have nothing to worry about. The pressure videogames put on graphics hardware has been stagnant for years now thanks to that bottleneck, with the exception of the occasional ARMA 2 or other PC exclusive coming out.
Funny you should mention that; just as I was plotting a new GPU to take over my rig, I loaded up Arkham Asylum and it runs flawlessly on a GTX 260. So as long as it takes me to finish that game, I have NO need for a new GPU. All I need is to load up another console port/highly polished game and again, I won't have an issue. And all I need is to load up Crysis to make me want to upgrade again.
You know what I am happy with the current situation. GPU's are very expensive. I mean buy a 200$ GTX 460 or buy a XBox 360 Slim? If you don't have a gaming computer and you want to play games... why buy a gaming computer? Buy any low-med computer for basic computing and run the latest Windows (or wtv OS you use) smoothly, and buy a gaming console... 400-500$ spend, and not 1500$. with 1k.. how many games you can buy? A lot. The current situation makes my GTX 260 (300$) worth more and more each year. Of course, I am not saying that graphics should stay the same, but a slow increase of graphics every 6 month is nice. At that rate I expect that 2012, or med-2011 I should start lowering my game graphical settings or OC my GPU to continue to play my games at max max settings under 1920x1200. If I can push it until 2013.. that mean from 2009 to 2013 that is 4 years, and that is nice for a 300$ card.
