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[soocold]

Yes, but there's so much I could add to this rig and not enough money.

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[johnlgalt]

lmfao - well, yeah. The New GTX Titan is out, but THG shows that it still does not perform as well as a GTX 690 (which, admittedly, is a dual GPU solution on a single card). But with the same price tag, the 690 is still the better buy.

But that Titan looks so beautiful - I could build a nice $20 K rig with three of those in there if I could find decent spacing in a mobo -probably need a 9 slot minimum mobo that runs PCIe x16 across all lanes....

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[soocold]

The problem with 16x on all lanes is latency, it raises your latency, and on pci gen 3 even 8x provides panty of bandwidth.

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[soocold]

And I'm Havering a hard time deciding on building a water loop, or spending that same $450 on a Asus gtx 670. Or if it comes out soon enough the new gtx 77x my current ati 6850 is holding its own right now.

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[johnlgalt]

skip the 670. Seriously. Wait for the next gen 7xx series. Your 6850 is plenty powerful enough.

Build the water loop instead, as that will allow you to OC better.

[soocold]

That's how I'm leaning, and two more road blocks regarding our project.

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[johnlgalt]

Eh?

[soocold]

Motor and Motor

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[money mike]

I'm looking to get back into PC gaming and need to upgrade my 5 or so year old PC. I've got a 8800 gtx that's barely cutting it anymore. What would be the best card option for about $150 and under? I typically have leaned toward geforce cards. Once I get set up I'll post my rig.

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[Ban-Hammer]

I'm looking to get back into PC gaming and need to upgrade my 5 or so year old PC. I've got a 8800 gtx that's barely cutting it anymore. What would be the best card option for about $150 and under? I typically have leaned toward geforce cards. Once I get set up I'll post my rig.


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A 460 might work. It's still pretty strong. Maxes out BFBC2. What I had before my 660ti SC
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[money mike]

A 460 might work. It's still pretty strong. Maxes out BFBC2. What I had before my 660ti SC
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Well that would be perfect because I have a friend who said he'd sell his 460 for $20 because it just sits in his closet. I'm getting ready to get everything in my stainless steel coolermaster tower. I just need the video card. Although I am surprised at how well the 8800gtx still performs. That thing was a beast back in the day.

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[Redalert]

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Holy Sh*t, 6 gigs of vid ram..

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[Redalert]

The problem with 16x on all lanes is latency, it raises your latency, and on pci gen 3 even 8x provides panty of bandwidth.

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You said panty...

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[soocold]

Holy Sh*t, 6 gigs of vid ram..

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It doesn't have the memory bus band width to support it. 4GB bottle necks a 3xx bit bus and gaming doesn't even push 2 GB to its limit.

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[johnlgalt]

Funny. The 690 is dual GPUs, each with 4 GB of RAM, and both GPUs only have 256 bit bus. So, you're saying that hte 690 is also bottlenecked?

[soocold]

Dual gpu so dual 256bit bus which is the perfect size for 2 GB

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[soocold]

And the 690 isn't much better than a 680 especially for its cost.

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[johnlgalt]

Whoops - I thought it was 4 GB per GPU, not 2.

[soocold]

Yup its really not all that impressive

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