Graphics card upgrade

[Guest2]

I have an EVGA GTX570 superclocked 1280mb and play at 2560x1440

Would it be better to sell up and get something else or buy another GTX570 and go SLI?

If using SLI is the VRAM doubled i.e 2560mb instead of 1280mb?

 

[Cleeecooo]

Unfortunately VRAM isn't doubled in SLI

If well and upgrade to a 7950 if it's within your budget as you'll benefit from both the extra VRAM and the extra GPU grunt.

 

[numatic.nathan]

SLI would be good at that res, but from having crossfire, while it's still good, it doesn't play well with all games, hence why one better GPU would be good in some cases. If you want trouble free gaming, then one GPU. Faster performance, SLI, but expect some problems with some games!

 

[bhavv]

Would be awesome if SLI could double the Vram, or if Vram could be installed / upgraded on each graphics card, but it cant be

 

[Guest2]

hmmm, maybe a 7950 for ~£270 second hand and sell my current 570 for £180 ish

Might hold out a few months as the 570 i bought a while back seems to be holding its value quite well

 

[shadow_boxer]

I think you'd be lucky to get that for a GTX570 with new cards now on the market. 580's have been going for close to the £200 mark, sometimes a little less.

 

[Guest2]

I think you'd be lucky to get that for a GTX570 with new cards now on the market. 580's have been going for close to the £200 mark, sometimes a little less.

Was offered £180 cash about a month ago when I thought my pc was knackered and I was going to have to sell parts. It turned out two ram modules were dead.

Its still fast enough for everything I throw at it but am always looking for cheap(ish) ways to upgrade. Q6600 is still holding up strong though so will only move to an i5 / i7 when when I really need to

 

[shadow_boxer]

Yeah the GTX570's are still good cards but I would probably be leaning towards putting money to upgrade the Q6600. Yes its still a good little CPU when overclocked but any sort of upgrade from your current 570 will be holding it back. May a nice second hand Sandy Bridge i5-2500K/Mobo/8GB DDR3 RAM instead?

 

[Guest2]

Yeah the GTX570's are still good cards but I would probably be leaning towards putting money to upgrade the Q6600. Yes its still a good little CPU when overclocked but any sort of upgrade from your current 570 will be holding it back. May a nice second hand Sandy Bridge i5-2500K/Mobo/8GB DDR3 RAM instead?

Good point.

How much would a combo like that cost?

Might be able to get around £100 for my q6600 (good clocker) 2x4gb corsair memory and P45 board

Maybe i will look into graphics upgrade in the future. I have also thought about downsizing monitor from 27" but going 24" or lower would look tiny