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gtx570 or Ati 6970?
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Soldato
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You can get sli to work on this motherboard but you need to flash the bios with the older p6t non deluxe version but to me its not worth the risk so for dual gpu you should only be thinking about amd for the moment.
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def go for a 6950 (overclocked and unlocked)
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Yeah Nvidia sucks in that way. The board, and many others, are mechanically perfectly capable of SLI (all that's needed is for it to meet Standard PCI-E specs like any other). But Nvidia insists on a bogus certification fee. There is a database of MB's that have had the cert fee paid in the Nvidia driver and the Nvidia driver looks to that list before it will enable SLI. I can't remember but it seems to me it is ~$10 per board.
Nvidia says this fee is to cover validation costs for insuring that the MB will work properly with SLI. Which is why I say bogus, because if the MB meets Standard PCI-E it would have to work properly with any GFX card that also meets Standard PCI-E spec, and if the cards don't work properly in SLI on a board that does meet Standard PCI-E specs it would be Nvidia's end that need's certified, certified to meet Standard PCI-E spec. So in reality Nvidia is charging you to cover there R&D costs of driver support for SLI.
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Soldato
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Why not a 6950 that will transform into a 6970 and cost around £60 less.
From what i see the 6950/70 runs every bit as good as a 6970 apart from the memory which seems to affect overall performance little if any.
I can vouch that the GTX560Ti will be perfect for 1680*1050. Hit me up a message in trust if you have any more questions, but I was in the same position as you. I decided to go for the GTX560 over the GTX570 due to price difference but I don't regret the decision at all. It's eaten everything I've thrown at it so far.
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