building a computer! (finally)

[crazyspazman]

ooh another question...two gtx 580's or 1 gtx 680?

[Db696]

Are you intending to do a dual display setup? If so go with the dual chips. If not the 680 is perfect.

[CraftminerX]

Are you intending to do a dual display setup? If so go with the dual chips. If not the 680 is perfect.

Note: dual 580s > single 680 in terms of performance (usually)

[crazyspazman]

everntually i would like to have 3 monitors... of ocurse, one gtx 680 can do that, and im pretty sure 2 580's can as well. i just didn tknow preformance wise.

also, hasnt the 690 been rumored to come out in not too long?

[Pri]

GTX 690 has already released. It is $999 and is about 98% of the performance of two GTX 680's in SLI.

In my opinion do not get two GTX 580's instead buy either a GTX 680 (and later buy another one in a years time) or get a GTX 690.

[crazyspazman]

999$....uh...yea...no....maybe in the far future lol

[crazyspazman]

holy crap! just looked up the 690...maybe, just maybe, an extra 600$ would be worth it...

although @pri, the only one i found was for 1400USD, not 1000 (unfortunately)

[Pri]

If I was you crazy I'd actually buy two GTX 670's they are so incredibly close in performance to a GTX 680 that there is now no point in buying a 680. Also two GTX 670's is identical in performance to a GTX 690 for significantly less money.

I may even buy two myself.

The reason I didn't mention the GTX 670 in my earlier post is because they only just came out today and I hadn't read any reviews until after I made my post. To give you an example of how close the GTX 670 and 680 are in performance, in Battlefield 3 (One of the latest games out I think you'd agree) they are within 3 frames per second of eachother.

[Db696]

Oh neat, i might look a little bit more into the new GTX 670s.

[crazyspazman]

Yea, looked them up. For 800usd I can get the equivalent of a 690...sounds good to me!

Also, if they're so close, why the 200$ price difference?

Also, if you know, how many displays they can support (on only one card), and will there ever be more then a 2gig card? Cause that's all I could find...