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660TI V 670

Fanaticjam

Fanaticjam

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Hey all,


I'm looking at upgrading my nvidia 460, I only use nvidia and plan to keep it that way so I've been looking at around £300 for my top mark, I saw that the 660TI and 670 have the same amount of cores; is there any point splashing out more for the 670 when I could save a fair amount by buying the 660TI?

I'm looking at upgrading to SLI or triple SLI when gpu's have dropped a huge amount in price, maybe a year or so away... if that's any help...

660TI v 670

And should I be concerned about the memory of the card?

Mostly caring about DayZ/Arma for performance, only game I really care about atm, everything else runs smoothly and looks great... Current card is pretty good imo!

(EVGA is preferred; brand loyalty and all that...)
 
The 660TI has a crippled memory bus with just 192bit bandwidth. IMO, the vanilla 660 (non-TI) is a much better value card, offering 90% of the TI's perfromance at a much better price. The 660 is also more efficient and runs cooler due to it's smaller GK106 core. The 660 TI is a crippled GK104 (GTX 670/680). The 670 is a very good card, but probably £30 over-priced.

GTX 660 SLI will destroy a GTX 680 for less money.
 
mickyflinn said:
What resolution will you be gaming at ?
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1920x1200



555BUK said:
The 660TI has a crippled memory bus with just 192bit bandwidth. IMO, the vanilla 660 (non-TI) is a much better value card, offering 90% of the TI's perfromance at a much better price. The 660 is also more efficient and runs cooler due to it's smaller GK106 core. The 660 TI is a crippled GK104 (GTX 670/680). The 670 is a very good card, but probably £30 over-priced.

GTX 660 SLI will destroy a GTX 680 for less money.
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Surely the TI gains more performance than 10/15% or so as it has around 40% more stream processors?
 
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Playing at same res with evga ftw 670...amazing tbh


One card solution better , less hassle.
 
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Fanaticjam said:
Surely the TI gains more performance than 10/15% or so as it has around 40% more stream processors?
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As other mentioned...try reading some reviews. From the looks of the benchmarks results, it would seem that having more stream processor on 192-bit memory bus without much higher clock ain't gonna give that much more peformance.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
As other mentioned...try reading some reviews. From the looks of the benchmarks results, it would seem that having more stream processor on 192-bit memory bus without much higher clock ain't gonna give that much more peformance.
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Hmm yeah, been reading some... And reading more now. (: The 670 certainly seems to trump it in everything on anand.

So I think I'll go with the 670 model, can anyone recommend what card to buy? I'm not too sure, I'd like to keep costs as low as possible, but want the performance and need to be able to fit up to three of them in a rig(later plans) so I guess they need to not be triple slot...

Is it worth getting a preclocked one or is it easy to OC them yourself?


Also, I'm wondering if my current system will hold it back;

i5 @4.3
Z68AP-D3 mobo
Crucial Ballistix Tactical Tracer 8GB (soon to be doubled to 16GB)
Antec TruePower New 650W Modular PSU (Guess it might need repalcing if I upgrade to SLI - system should have several HDD's and 3 SDD's etc.
 
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Overclocking is super easy, all you have to do is move a few sliders in MSI Afterburner and click apply. The Gigabyte Windforce is a great cooler and lots of people recommend it, I was put off by the blue PCB and general look of the card- hence I went for a TF3 instead.
 
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