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2 680s or 1 690?

Personally, a GTX 690 - as the performance is very close to GTX 680 SLI while running quieter, using less power and kicking out less heat.

Though, make sure you are running a seriously high resolution monitor setup before you even consider spending £800+ on a graphics card.
 
690 as it does a better job of sli due to some onboard hardware which minimizes stutter. Also it is one card and one well made card at that.
 
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the price of this shocked me last week, so much for my 650 quid :D

Card looks great, but lets see what the 7990 is like
 
GoogalyMoogaly said:
2 680s as I want 4GB VRAM
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Very funny, I'm suprised someone actually took it seriously :p

I made a similar decision last round and plumped for the 6990 over cf 6970's. Space, higher binned chips and the cost water blocks steered me to the 6990 and I have been very pleased with it.
 
JeffyB said:
Very funny, I'm suprised someone actually took it seriously :p

I made a similar decision last round and plumped for the 6990 over cf 6970's. Space, higher binned chips and the cost water blocks steered me to the 6990 and I have been very pleased with it.
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I was being serious.
I possibly didn't explain it well enough, but until they release 8GB 690s I would prefer 2 4GB 680s in SLI.
 
670 is a very solid choice this time round, seems pretty good on the limited info so far. But correct me if im wrong, is the current 690 not two full blown 680 cores on the one board? Just that nvidias last dual offerings were made with x2 mid range gpu's slightly underclocked.
 
setter said:
670 is a very solid choice this time round, seems pretty good on the limited info so far. But correct me if im wrong, is the current 690 not two full blown 680 cores on the one board? Just that nvidias last dual offerings were made with x2 mid range gpu's slightly underclocked.
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It is certainly is. Performs close to 2 X 680's in BF3 as well. I nice replacement for your 470's setter :)
 
For me Kiwi itll be one 670 to start with mate, then another later down the line. The 470's have been pretty good, but theyre very hot running cards, and vram starts to run out at high res with aa. Thheyve been great, £260.00 for both after selling my gtx 275's, they overclock crazily, but noisy and hot. 800mhz on 1.012v, id loved to have put then under watercooling, but to do the cards and cpu would cost an absolute fortune.
 
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