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***** GAINWARD Geforce GTX 580 "Phantom" with 3072MB of V-RAM ***** IN STOCK NOW!
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Soldato
No overclock so you save money but £80 for Double Vram and a top quality after market cooler on a custom PCB featuring extra ports? I think thats a rather tasty way to lay out an additional £80
A Custom PCB will generally be a no go for water cooling. Just an headsup for people.
Well yeah
I meant that the second 16x lane on most boards is covered up by a triple slot card though. From the boards I've looked at anyway.
Yea, you would specifically need a board with 3 slot space per 16x lane if you want two. Lots of the Sandybridge boards have this, as does the X58 Rampage III Extreme.
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What a beast.
Deffo getting one of these!
Deffo getting one of these!
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EK waterblock news: "Due to demand and request we decided to start working on waterblocks for nonreference Geforce 570 GTX graphic cards.
Cards in question are made by Palit and Gainward.
ETA 4-8 weeks."
Good news from what I can tell, the GTX 570 phantom PCB and the 3GB GTX 580 phantom PCB's, look identical. This would make it easier for water block manufacturers to release a single block for multiple versions of the card.
GTX 570 Phantom bottom PCB:
GTX 3GB 580 bottom PCB:
GTX 570 Phantom top:
GTX 3GB 580 top:
Ohh and Palit has this same card being released but with a 2-slot heat pipe cooler:
If I was going single/dual card setup on air I would get the Gainward. If I am doing 3/4 card setup and or water I'd get the Palit.
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This at 479.99 or a gtx 480 at 199.99. I know what I'd take if I didn't have one already
Soldato
You are factually incorrect
ASUS super computer has 7 slots
so
each X is a slot
X PHANTOM 580
X
X
X PHANTOM 580
X
X
X PHANTOM 580
bottom slot blocks no other slots as well You are factually incorrect
ASUS super computer has 7 slots
so
each X is a slot
X PHANTOM 580
X
X
X PHANTOM 580
X
X
X PHANTOM 580
Oh, well that mobo would work in a super big case
I was thinking based on my R3E, where that middle slot in your diagram thing is a 4x slot
Soldato
Same for EVGA classified etc etc
Yes you would need a good sized case to accomodate the drop at the bottom..
Soldato
They are nice, i had a p6t7 super in a cuda farm, but ditched it in favour of more CPU power (folding)
The "problem" with them is if you fully populate the 7 slots the board cannot give enough power to the GPUS.....
The "problem" with them is if you fully populate the 7 slots the board cannot give enough power to the GPUS.....
Dont they have two extra molex connectors like the R3E?
When running 2 or 3 cards, you plug in one extra molex, when running 4 you plug in both. The bottom molex on the R3E cant be plugged in unless you have a case that can take a double slot card in the bottom slot, which makes sense since its only needed for 4 cards.
So I think that a perfect layout would be like an R3E, but with an extra 16x slot in the middle where the 4x is. That would be able to hold the following configurations:
4 double slot gfx cards
3 double slot gfx cards + sound card
3 triple slot gfx cards (like these phantoms)
2 triple / double slot gfx cards and a sound card (which is what I need)
So pretty much every config you could possibly put in it. And the two PCI-E molex power connectors ofc.
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Same for EVGA classified etc etc
Yes you would need a good sized case to accomodate the drop at the bottom..
I just use an open bench setup for such circumstances.
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That is a sexy card
Soldato
No extra molex on P6t7.
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Ordering 2 of theses and a asus maximus for my sandy!