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Gainward GTX 580 Phantom 3GB GDDR5

I dont think they messed up with it being a 3 slot cooler, well 2 and half slot.. Because it's perfect for people that want a single card to run cool on air or a dual setup on air with a motherboard with well spaced slots. Tri and quad sli is out of the question and really aimed at people who would have to watercool not air cool.. For air cooling people which is a large percentage of the people.. it's perfect.. If I had some spare cash I would grab 2 of them and SLI them in a nice case when the LGA 2011 chips come out.
 
600 dollars wtf.... that is 372.13918 pounds that is cheaper then any gtx 580 in our country but u pay less for the most expensive gtx 580's u can buy (i *****ing hate america no offense). why does the uk have to pay 100 pounds more? what the hell is wrong with this world. GRRRRRRRRRRFDSFDSF DSFSDFSDF
 
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trisp said:
600 dollars wtf.... that is 372.13918 pounds that is cheaper then any gtx 580 in our country but u pay less for the most expensive gtx 580's u can buy (i *****ing hate america no offense). why does the uk have to pay 100 pounds more? what the hell is wrong with this world. GRRRRRRRRRRFDSFDSF DSFSDFSDF
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calm down, there may be a sales tax to be added on top at checkout.
 
yeah and valuta/currency shizzle :)
Cheapest here in the netherlands I found is 364 pounds, why not get it from here or Germany (even cheaper), shipping is not that expensive...
 
Have u really ordered 3 @ 480 pounds a pop?because two things come to mind a) why not wait for the 6990s or 595s and get two ? and B) can u actually fit three on a motherboard...
 
trisp said:
Have u really ordered 3 @ 480 pounds a pop?because two things come to mind a) why not wait for the 6990s or 595s and get two ? and B) can u actually fit three on a motherboard...
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A) 3x580 will most likely be faster and not like 2x590 that is more 4x580 aka 575 strangled to death to use around 300W before OC and 2x6990 i asume will be slower than 4x6970 if not due to internal restrictions it will be because of lower clocks and specs to meet the same 300W limit.
So in short i dont see any change from previous genearations where singlecards in pair was faster than its dualGPU sibbling.
Dual GPUcards only real purpos is PR for having the fastest card and for apps that can use all 1024cudacores of the 590 and/or you dont have a MB to support 4 separate GPU:s but willing to pay the price of less perfomance to get 4 GPU:s
Besides 590 will be a very very limited card and have cherry picked GF110 GPU:s for minimal leakage to save power and price thereafter and nvidia expect they wont make any money of that card either, just PR and crash the party for AMD and 6990.

B) You can watercool this cards and with 3 slots/card it still fit a elite group of uber highend X58 that has 7 PCIe-slots from ASUS, EVGA, Gigabyte etc.
One of the upcomming EK block might fit this card as it shares PCB with what they make a block for and only two memorychip differ those two cards.
Ths way a 3slot card becomes a 2slot card and fit many, many more MB.

C) 590 will not have 6GB framebuffer to match this cards 3GB and 1.5GB+ is what you use in 2560x1600+ with eyecandy even if surround is the targetgroup for this 3GB card. 590 will only have 3GB framebufer and that is 1,5GB per GPU and usable.
 
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A) 3x580 will most likely be faster and not like 2x590 that is more 4x580 aka 575 strangled to death to use around 300W before OC and 2x6990 i asume will be slower than 4x6970 if not due to internal restrictions it will be because of lower clocks and specs to meet the same 300W limit.
So in short i dont see any change from previous genearations where singlecards in pair was faster than its dualGPU sibbling.
Dual GPUcards only real purpos is PR for having the fastest card and for apps that can use all 1024cudacores of the 590 and/or you dont have a MB to support 4 separate GPU:s but willing to pay the price of less perfomance to get 4 GPU:s
Besides 590 will be a very very limited card and have cherry picked GF110 GPU:s for minimal leakage to save power and price thereafter and nvidia expect they wont make any money of that card either, just PR and crash the party for AMD and 6990.

B) You can watercool this cards and with 3 slots/card it still fit a elite group of uber highend X58 that has 7 PCIe-slots from ASUS, EVGA, Gigabyte etc.
One of the upcomming EK block might fit this card as it shares PCB with what they make a block for and only two memorychip differ those two cards.
Ths way a 3slot card becomes a 2slot card and fit many, many more MB.

C) 590 will not have 6GB framebuffer to match this cards 3GB and 1.5GB+ is what you use in 2560x1600+ with eyecandy even if surround is the targetgroup for this 3GB card. 590 will only have 3GB framebufer and that is 1,5GB per GPU and usable.
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Ya, 3-4 3GB 580's would destroy GTX 595's etc in Surround high-resolution gaming.
 
trisp said:
600 dollars wtf.... that is 372.13918 pounds that is cheaper then any gtx 580 in our country but u pay less for the most expensive gtx 580's u can buy (i *****ing hate america no offense). why does the uk have to pay 100 pounds more? what the hell is wrong with this world. GRRRRRRRRRRFDSFDSF DSFSDFSDF
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Ya, but don't you guys get paid more in the UK? I've read like garbage men get paid 60,000 pounds a year just to pick up your trash. They can afford your GTX 580 prices. ;)
 
wow very good looking card, tho it's irrelevant since no one will be looking at it, unless of course you buy another one to have outside your case :p
 
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