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Question about the 690's

diamount

diamount

diamount

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They are exactly the same right? Why is like EVGA £100 more expensive than MSI/Gigabyte - do you like pay an extra premium for the warranty?
 
You get a tshirt or something heh. Yeah they're all the same, just pick a company with the best warranty for you.
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If you are thinking of getting a GTX 690 it may be wise to wait a few weeks to see what the HD 7990 is like. At the very least it will do something to bring the prices down.
 
Yo do know that the 690 is a dual bios card. So although it says 4GB of VRAM, if you read the specs carefully its 2x2GB, meaning it can only address 2GB at any one time. With people claiming they are already hitting 2GB in games such as Skyrim with the high texture pack, is it really worth spending £800 on a card that could quickly become bottlenecked by its VRAM limitation?
 
Yo do know that the 690 is a dual bios card. So although it says 4GB of VRAM, if you read the specs carefully its 2x2GB, meaning it can only address 2GB at any one time. With people claiming they are already hitting 2GB in games such as Skyrim with the high texture pack, is it really worth spending £800 on a card that could quickly become bottlenecked by its VRAM limitation?
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They behave memory wise exactly the same as a standard GTX 670/680. As to running Skyrim on my system it is not very demanding.

There are situations on a multi monitor setup where more memory would be desirable but at the moment this is rare but could become more important in the future.

Andybird123 another poster on these forums pointed out that the interface ie PCIe 3 rather than PCIe 2 was important with multi monitor, multi sli setups. After watching several video reviews at extreme resolutions and settings with BF3 this proved to be a lot more important than the available memory. The GTX 690 uses PCIe 3 where available.

Andybird123 if you are reading this you were right.
 
BUDFORCE said:
Yo do know that the 690 is a dual bios card. So although it says 4GB of VRAM, if you read the specs carefully its 2x2GB, meaning it can only address 2GB at any one time. With people claiming they are already hitting 2GB in games such as Skyrim with the high texture pack, is it really worth spending £800 on a card that could quickly become bottlenecked by its VRAM limitation?
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People with 3GB cards right? It's been discussed a million times before but if there is excess VRAM available then more is data is cached into it.
 
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