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Is the GTX 580 worth over £110 more than the GTX 570?

barmyllama

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I currently have 2 MSI Twin frozr II GTX 470's in SLI.

For the most part they perfrom very well.

But......This is the second SLI setup I've had and I am still not convinced it's the best way to go. My main game BFBC2 scales reasonably well, but not great. Some games scale better than others, some run worse than with one card (Left4Dead2). I think that you are always better off with one high end card than 2 mid range cards.

So I think I've decided to sell both cards and get just a single high end card.

The GTX 580 is the fastest single GPU card available to me (I only use nVidia cards, no I am not a fanboy, it's just my preference)

The question is: Is the cheapest GTX580 worth the extra £110+ over the cheapest GTX 570?

Thanks for any replies.
 
Well I just got rid of my dual cards (5770) and I have a budget so am going for the GTX480, it seems the GTX580 is around 15-20% better in BFBC2 over the 480, whether that upto 20% better performance is worth double the price of a GTX480 is upto you

It also looks like going from 470 sli you will actually be about 10% worse off in fps with the GTX580
 
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Tbh i would keep the two 470's maybe buy some aftermarket coolers for them u can pick them up for around 20-30 pounds ish, overclock them abit and stick with that till the next series as what ever u do unless u buy a 6990 or 590 it is going to be a step backwards in terms of performance and not really worth doing!
 
The trouble with the 2 GTX 470's is because they are the Twin Frozr versions all the heat from both cards is exhausted into the case. I have a Coolermaster HAF X case and it still means my i7 920 CPU gets to 75-80 degrees with a Noctua NH-U12P H/S with two Noctu fans in push/pull at stock speeds. Without the extra heat from the two GFX cards those temps would be a lot lower. And as I said SLI is still isn't as bullet proof as it should be by now.

I realise that my current setup with be a bit faster than a single GTX 580, but I think that's worth it.

My only concern its the price versus performance of a GTX580 against a GTX 570.
 
Well I would suggest that you need the gtx580 at least really, as when you compare the performance it does beat the 570 by 10% and that would be noticible especially since you have a good setup as it is with 470 sli, it would be a big step backwards with 570

Have you considered water cooling the system or just the GPU's that you have, should imagine the outlay could be about the same as a 570-580 and then you keep the performance and have a cool running system, something to think about.

Or even just a coraisr H70 on the cpu pulling it's air from outside the case might help with temps, at least with the corsair you can isolate the cpu from the rising temps inside the case
 
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Yep, sadly cards such as the frozr's arent perfect for sli due to the cooler they use, the reference cooled cards, loud and hot as they can be are better suited as they expel air out the back of the case. But even then, without an antec spotcool behind my two reference gigabytes, the top card will run 10c higher than the bottom one.
 
have you considered the SOC version of the 480's, surely better value than the 580

how did you have it setup, the H50 that is, if the cooling isn't up to it then like you say a single card might lower your temps, have you tried running with 1 470 to make sure it is the sli causing high temps on the CPU and not just inadequate cooling on the CPU in the first place.
 
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barmyllama said:
I currently have 2 MSI Twin frozr II GTX 470's in SLI.

For the most part they perfrom very well.

But......This is the second SLI setup I've had and I am still not convinced it's the best way to go. My main game BFBC2 scales reasonably well, but not great. Some games scale better than others, some run worse than with one card (Left4Dead2). I think that you are always better off with one high end card than 2 mid range cards.

So I think I've decided to sell both cards and get just a single high end card.

The GTX 580 is the fastest single GPU card available to me (I only use nVidia cards, I am a fanboy, it's just my preference)

The question is: Is the cheapest GTX580 worth the extra £110+ over the cheapest GTX 570?

Thanks for any replies.
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hyperst said:
have you considered the SOC version of the 480's, surely better value than the 580

how did you have it setup, the H50 that is, if the cooling isn't up to it then like you say a single card might lower your temps, have you tried running with 1 470 to make sure it is the sli causing high temps on the CPU and not just inadequate cooling on the CPU in the first place.
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I have the SOC GTX470s in SLI in a HAF922 with added side fan, these would overheat in that case without the extra fan, I'd imagine the GTX480 SOCs to be worse in that regard, IIRC it's the same 3 fan cooler. Mind you, my 470s are right next to each other due to the motherboard layout, so if there is at least a 1 slot gap it might not be a problem.

mikeyholt said:
2x560Ti > 580

It performs better and is cheaper.
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His pair of GTX470s are about the same in performance, it would be no gain.
 
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood
Crysis 2
any newly released games.

single fastest GPU has it's advantages when you are living on the newest released games. better value for money for 2 GPU setups is just mute when you can't play incompatible games at full speed.
 
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