Best of luck in the card lottery!
Thanks! Looks like almost all the suppliers have kicked the price up to around 480 to 500 UKP,
so I bought one from Novatech for 460 total. More than I wanted to spend, but I reckon if I left
it much longer, their price would go up too (the source I was going to use had it listed for 432,
but then when they had new stock arrive yesterday, the price shot up to 463; stuff that I say!).
Anyhoo, this is the
config it will be replacing, two Palit GTX 580 3GB SLI @ default 783/2010/1566
core/RAM/shader, 344.60 driver. System is an ASUS Maxiumis IV Extreme (so the cards are each
at 8x PCIe v2), i7 2700K @ 5GHz, 16GB RAM @ 2133MHz (9/11/10/28/2T), Win7/Pro/64 (to the
thread mod, hope I've done this ok, only my 2nd shot)...
Thankfully I've sold the two 580s for a good price (175 each), so the dosh pain is minimal.
If I can get at least the same speed for the (older) games I play, I'll be happy, but just a little more
oomph would be good for the OTT customised Crysis config I use (45fps with these two 580s). Btw,
I know these 580s oc just fine to 900/2150/1800 core/RAM/shader, but as I've sold them I didn't want
to risk an oc run. I can try oc'd 580 runs later with some MSI 3GB LX cards instead (they use 832 default,
but handle 950+ with ease; my
AE system has four of them).
Ian.
PS. I bought the 580s last year for 270 total, so I've made a profit of 80 on them. Hehe, not bad... 8)