GTX580 Graphics Card recommendations Please

[mrix]

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he's already said he doesn't want to go 480 sli, seems to be adament on gretting a 580 regardless of everyone advicing that its not worth upgrading to 580 and to wait. not much you can do with people like this.

As I already explained, I would have to get a 1000wat power supply to run 2 GTX480`s, they don't come cheap!, I have not got water cooling so that`s more expense, so running two 480 on air is going to be hot hot hot!

At the moment I can get around £200 for my GTX 480 on auction sites so the upgrade is not really costing me an arm and a leg

My original post was asking for members preferences on a 580 and not about sticking with a 480 or going SLI 480.

Thanks anyway for your time.
mrix

 

[mikeo]

From a personal point of view... if you can get around £200 for your 480, then I'd consider an upgrade myself but then again, I don't need much (any?) excuse to keep messing with my PC

With the new Nvidia cards looking like early 2012 and then the inevitable wait for a decent set of drivers (only my opinion folks). If you buy a 580, then you could easily get 12 months out of it before the "itch" to upgrade again becomes too over powerful. Though obviously it looks like the new AMD/ATI cards should be along in a month or so. Decisions, decisions.

Good luck what ever you decide.

 

[mrix]

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Hello all, just a little update, I could not resist the upgrade and went over kill really and opting for a Gainward GTX580 3072mb Card purchased from here! the addiction to get something New was too overpowering!

Cosmetically its a lovely quality looking card and the idle temps are so very low around the 30c to 35c mark very quiet as well! Not sure what the load temps are as I have not had time to check.

I am so far very pleased and have listed my 480 on an auction site which has already had a bid of £150! with 2 days to go so I will be clawing some back!

Thanks all
mrix

 

[BriT]

Enjoy and yeah i know the feeling of the upgrade bug heh