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Advice please, Gtx670s

olie123

olie123

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Hello

i hope you guys can advice me :)

I am running a 3rd gen i7 3700k stock speeds at the moment, 16gb ram 1 xGigabyte windforce gtx670 stock OC speed, all on a ga-z77x-ud5h

the machine is running very nice both in windows 7 64 and OSX ML.

The question i have is would getting a second Gtx 670 wind force running in sli make much of a different with games (windows only) I am a little disappointed TBH as I think it won't be long before I find the new games will struggle running with max settings, an example is the new Crysis 3, yes i no that this has it problems at the moment, but its the start of the new gen stuff and i would really like to no that i can run a game to its fullest.

any suggestions or advice would be great

thanks for your time reading this, ;)
 
2x 670 would be overkill for quite a few years, you got 3 slots for tri-SLI? If the duo start to fall behind in a few years, you can just whack a cheap 670 as the 3rd. :p
 
Omaeka said:
2x 670 would be overkill for quite a few years, you got 3 slots for tri-SLI? If the duo start to fall behind in a few years, you can just whack a cheap 670 as the 3rd. :p
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Hi and thanks for your quick reply, I am not to sure i understand what you mean :confused: I understand that there are 3 slots for gpu's, are you saying that there is no need for me at the moment, to get a second 670 and that i should stick with just the one at present?

thanks again
 
olie123 said:
Hi and thanks for your quick reply, I am not to sure i understand what you mean :confused: I understand that there are 3 slots for gpu's, are you saying that there is no need for me at the moment, to get a second 670 and that i should stick with just the one at present?

thanks again
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I would stick with one for now. What resolution are you running at? If you're at 2560x1600 or something then maybe you could consider an upgrade (though I'd just stick with your current card and then sell it and buy a high end card of the next generation).
 
FrenchTart said:
I would stick with one for now. What resolution are you running at? If you're at 2560x1600 or something then maybe you could consider an upgrade (though I'd just stick with your current card and then sell it and buy a high end card of the next generation).
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hello :)

I am running games at 1080p thats the best res for my display, and for me looks fine. so what you guys are saying is stick with the one, and in a year of so grab a second and that will keep me in the gaming loop for a good few years?

big thanks ;)
 
Dual GPU setups are a waste for 1080p gaming, your card will not begin to struggle for a good while yet. Upgrade next year sometime.
 
if you can get 60 fps constantly now then don't bother upgrading, you will see a difference during benchmarking but you personally wont notice a thing, get fraps and run the most demanding game you have and see what fps you are currently getting, then make a decision.
 
nalla said:
if you can get 60 fps constantly now then don't bother upgrading, you will see a difference during benchmarking but you personally wont notice a thing, get fraps and run the most demanding game you have and see what fps you are currently getting, then make a decision.
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Hi :)

BF3 60FPS everything on max, FarCRY 3 55/60 again everything on max, BUT
Crysis 3 = 30 FPS :( and this is what has made me concerned as this is now the benchmark. its player able but 30 is a bit low really.

thanks again guys, its nice getting some good advice
 
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FWIW, I'm in the process of upgrading a pair of GTX470s to a pair of GTX670s, and I only game at 1920x1200. I think there is a justification of that amount of power at that resolution for a few (but not currently many) games. Yes the new crysis is a consideration.
 
If you have the money burning a hole in your pocket, then go for it.

Try it OcUK have a 14 day money back guarantee if you don't like the results.

I have just the other week gone SLi with 2 GTX 670s, and not noticed much improvement, FPS counter is higher. But other than that game I was playing were fine on 1 670.
 
I have a 120hz screen, but it has dramatically increased performance in Crysis 3. SLI 670 is very good. What PSU do you have?
 
HazardO said:
FWIW, I'm in the process of upgrading a pair of GTX470s to a pair of GTX670s, and I only game at 1920x1200. I think there is a justification of that amount of power at that resolution for a few (but not currently many) games. Yes the new crysis is a consideration.
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Even one 670 with an oc on it will be an upgrade from sli gtx 470's. This is what i done. The 470's were oc'd at 750mhz. The drop in heat, noise and power consumption is nothing short of amazing.
 
setter said:
Even one 670 with an oc on it will be an upgrade from sli gtx 470's. This is what i done. The 470's were oc'd at 750mhz. The drop in heat, noise and power consumption is nothing short of amazing.
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My GTX 470s were Gigabyte SOCs (~705MHz IIRC). The primary reason for dumping them was the growing list of games that would cause my system to hang completely due to the GPUs cooking*, the other is that 1.25GB of RAM/card doesn't quite cut it anymore.

For the same reason I bought the 470s in the first place is the reason why two this time. Nearly as powerful as Nvidia's top offering(s) for a lot less money.

Given my MB forces SLI cards next to each other, the Gigabyte custom coolers were not coping, so it's back to blowers for me.

I also can't help myself when it comes to eye candy in game. :o

*Trine (very low CPU usage 100% GPU leads to overheating)
Metro 2033 (overheating)
crysis 2 couldn't cope with the high res texture pack.
crysis 3 just can't cope and overheating.
 
Mine were gigabyte reference oc models, board spacing was very good which helped. The vram limit was an issue for me too. Ill be adding a second wf as well hopefully. I was a bit concerned about spacing on my new board in sig, but illuz who has the same board as me showed me a photo of his setup with x2 wf's, spacing is a lot better than what i thought it would be.
 
Don't base your GPU choices on crysis 3 it is useless on most systems it's a shoddy pc version with many issues. I have just built a 3770k and 690 GTX system and that has huge frame drops with max settings.

A single 670 is plenty for 1080p for now.
 
MOOGLEYS said:
Don't base your GPU choices on crysis 3 it is useless on most systems it's a shoddy pc version with many issues. I have just built a 3770k and 690 GTX system and that has huge frame drops with max settings.

A single 670 is plenty for 1080p for now.
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Again guys big thanks for all your advise etc, Its nice knowing that the 670 i have is an ok choice, And that other people are having problems with the same or better set up than my self. I have started to OC the card and the best i have at the moment, is 1180 on boost, is this an average OC. If i go any more it crashed the driver, The other strange thing is that if i turn of v-sync in the Nvidia control panel out side the game my frames go right up to 60 plus and that is with all setting on very high etc. but i then get tearing, its not to bad but very noticeable. why is V-sync eating up to much FPS its like nearly 30.
 
I'm "stuck" at 1920x1200 for now, but I still get great performance gains with SLi and 3-way SLi. I wouldn't say SLi is a waste at 1080p. Things may run fine with one card, but they run even better with two and you can add much more eye-candy like the many different forms of anti-aliasing.
 
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