Confused! need Help.

[NiteSurfer]

Hey,
I'm currently using an asus P6T SE motherboard, which only supports Xfire and not SLI.

But can anybody tell me if it would support a Dual GPU Nvidia card, Say an EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2Win !. Effectively this card is internally Running in SLI. But only using one slot.

However. As my mobo doesn't support SLI mode. I'm wondering if this would not work at all. I need some Education here, Thanks.

 

[TheRealDeal]

It will work fine. The card uses its own internal sli.

 

[Speed]

As far as I'm aware it would work, however I'd always suggest getting a single fast GPU card over one that features two GPUs on the same card.

Maybe if you post the rest of your specifications, the games you play, your monitor resolution and budget, we can give you some suggestions.

 

[NiteSurfer]

ok..Great.

My Monitor is a 26" 16:10 widescreen with 1920x1200 Resolution.
Processor is a i7 980x extreme stock speed

Games I'm playing are
Crysis and Crysis warhead But only on Gamer settings @ 1920x1200.

Saints Row The Third, 25Fps with my 6950 2gb @ anything over 1080p
because the game hates ATI cards .

Budget between £400-£450

 

[TheRealDeal]

With that budget your best to get a 7970. Its the fastest single gpu card on the market atm. With an overclock it will be faster than a 560 2win. At stock clocks it wont be much slower and you wont need to worry about sli drivers at any point.

 

[NiteSurfer]

Hmm ok, I'll have a look, But the Custom PC Mag didn't give brilliant gaming benchmarks for that card. Maybe it's an early driver issue.

Am i right in thinking that ATI are soon to be launching a 7000 series Dual GPU card!..
7990x2 ?.

 

[Speed]

They might do yes but for 1080p you won't want the extra performance over an overclocked 7970 as it would be of no benifit with the current titles. If you want to go nVidia then it would pay to wait.

 

[NiteSurfer]

Thanks for all your helpful comments!..

 

[Speed]

Thanks for all your helpful comments!..

lol, no problem.

The EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti 2Win is definately over priced for what it is, at £420 thats almost 7970 money. The 7970 definately perform much better, would eliminate the issues with more than one GPU and provide enough performance to get over the nVidia specific games you are using. I suspect most people with SLi support could get similar performance to the GTX 560 Ti 2Win with two overclocked GTX460 1GB cards which just puts things in perspective.

But yes, for your budget either wait for nVidias offerings which could be 1-2 months away for the proper stuff, or the 7950 in a few weeks or just bite the bullet and get a 7970 which I've seen as cheap as £440 with stock due shortly.

You always have the DSRs to fall back on which gives you about a week to try the card.