GTX 580 SLI upgrade

[Shadow-King]

Hey all,

With the new (kinda) R9 series announced, would now be a good time to sell my 580s and upgrade to a single card? Reckon I can only get about £200 for both cards but not sure at this point.

Are there any cards worth upgrading to over my 580s? IM intrigued by the 290/290x but we STILL haven't gotten any news (specs and price) yet!

I play at 1080p but use 2 monitors. Rest of my specs are in the sig.

Any advice?

Thanks

 

[SS-89]

Highly unlikely you'd get anywhere near that much for your 580's. What's your budget?

290 series has no firm release date but potentially towards the end of this month.

 

[Shadow-King]

Budget is likely to be £300-400 can stretch further depending on how much I get for my cards.

It £200 for 2 cards that much of a stretch? That's £100 for each.

Off topic how are u finding the HTC one? I got it not long ago and I like it a lot.

 

[ancientmariner]

I am using 2 x580's myself and have been pondering over an upgrade too. Figured bf4 would indicate if my system would struggle but i get 80/90 fps on ultra @1080p 120hz so I cant bring myself to do it yet. The nvidia pricing at the moment is too high for the 780/titan etc and if i do upgrade i will probably want buy 2 cards and it simply isnt justifiable yet. My system struggles with nothing so far so might leave it until the 8 series. Plan to stick with nvidia but if it didnt matter to you, amd definitely have the pricing right.

 

[SS-89]

Budget is likely to be £300-400 can stretch further depending on how much I get for my cards.

It £200 for 2 cards that much of a stretch? That's £100 for each.

Off topic how are u finding the HTC one? I got it not long ago and I like it a lot.

I think your cards are unlikely to fetch that much realistically. I sold my 7950 on the mm only a few weeks ago for £120 collected. 7970's are going for around £150.

Based on your budget I would hazard a guess that you'd be looking more along the lines of 770/(potentially 290) performance and I don't think the cost would justify the small bump in performance.

 

[MooMoo444]

So single 770 is a little better than 580 SLI?

When I had my 580 I couldn't decide which to go for in the end. The extra vRAM swung the decision however.

 

[SS-89]

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/975?vs=829

It's a crude comparison (590 is roughly equal to 580 sli), however I would imagine the 770 drivers and performance have slightly improved since.

 

[Shadow-King]

Yea I was just looking on anandtech. Doesn't seem worth the price unless I wanna run cooler and quieter with less power. I still may wait for 290/290x and see what price & performance is like before I decide.

Wish I could get on MM but I joined just as the rules changed