Hi - I've had my i7 950@4Ghz since 2010 now, so a bit long in the tooth but still going great. Last year I married it up to a pair of 2GB GTX 680 cards and I run triple screens at 5760 x 1080.
Next year I'm considering this option (but with 16GB):
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-180-OE
and to be bought with the new nVidia Maxwell cards. I am hoping not to have to go SLI immediately but still see a 40% boost to my FPS over my current 680s. I understand the new top of the range GTX 880 cards will have 5GB VRAM and at least 3,000 CUDA cores, which are more than double the combined number on what I have now. Plus the memory bandwidth will be 512GB/s.
My question is whether this will be sufficient to see the FPS increase? I run mainly racing sims (rFactor 2 / Project CARS / iRacing) and very occasionally BFx and MWx.
Thanks for any advice / input. Happy with SLI now, but it's not cheap and hopefully the new tech can deal with the load on a single card.
Next year I'm considering this option (but with 16GB):
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-180-OE
and to be bought with the new nVidia Maxwell cards. I am hoping not to have to go SLI immediately but still see a 40% boost to my FPS over my current 680s. I understand the new top of the range GTX 880 cards will have 5GB VRAM and at least 3,000 CUDA cores, which are more than double the combined number on what I have now. Plus the memory bandwidth will be 512GB/s.
My question is whether this will be sufficient to see the FPS increase? I run mainly racing sims (rFactor 2 / Project CARS / iRacing) and very occasionally BFx and MWx.
Thanks for any advice / input. Happy with SLI now, but it's not cheap and hopefully the new tech can deal with the load on a single card.
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