Should i up grade ?

[gadget^]

currently running 2 x 480 GTX AMP edition (not overclocked)

do i up grade to the 580 ? looking to play BF3

i do have £450.00 in OC vouchers plus could sell the other cards ?

 

[han_solo]

can't you wait until the game's actually released? no one knows right now how taxing the game will be but it's very doubtful that it's going to be a 'Metro 2033' resource sucking whore.

Would have thought your 480 sli would smoke 99% of all games right now

 

[Tediore]

I wouldn't say that was worth it at all, to be honest. Unless the vouchers have an expiry date, save them for the next gen cards and get a free upgrade.

I played BF3 at i43, and the machines there were running on AMD/ATi hardware, but even if it's going to run better on those, your 480s have so much raw horsepower, they should be able to max BF3 no problem. The game is fantastic by the way; the guns actually feel nice and meaty

 

[gadget^]

20months on the vouchers, may be i will ask for some more @ xmas and hold off

or at least wait until bf3 is released (thanks for the advice) as always +1 OC forums

 

[ghutchison14078]

Are you serious.........

GTX 480's in SLI will rip through games for a long time to come....

 

[ReAPeR101]

More than enough juice in the 480s to play BF3 IMO.

 

[=XDC=FluphyBunny]

Really, really no need

Plus if you were going to buy anything why even think of buying now with the next gen so near?

 

[gadget^]

Really, really no need

Plus if you were going to buy anything why even think of buying now with the next gen so near?

tbh ive not even looked into next gen stuff or when its being released

i did read about pic-e 3.0 or something like that, also it could mean a socket change new cpu then thats a new can of worms opened

with my current spec getting new upgrades or components could cost 3k

 

[fowler002]

tbh ive not even looked into next gen stuff or when its being released

i did read about pic-e 3.0 or something like that, also it could mean a socket change new cpu then thats a new can of worms opened

with my current spec getting new upgrades or components could cost 3k

where are you getting the £3k figure from? unless you go with very top end sandy-e CPU(not due out till sometime next yr), £300 motherboard, 7970/nvidia equivalent) it wouldn't cost you anywhere near that. if your psu(what is it btw) can handle 480 sli you should be fine for newer cards as well.

 

[gadget^]

where are you getting the £3k figure from? unless you go with very top end sandy-e CPU(not due out till sometime next yr), £300 motherboard, 7970/nvidia equivalent) it wouldn't cost you anywhere near that. if your psu(what is it btw) can handle 480 sli you should be fine for newer cards as well.

2 high end gpu's - £400.00-£450.00 each
1 mid -top end cpu £400
1 high end mobo £300
1 Cooler £50.00
12gb Ram £250.00
ssd x 2 £400.00

while most of my current equipment is good its 12 months ish old

so may be £2000.00 then as i can use a few items on my PC

 

[OCPete]

Remember the Zalman cooler on those 480's is EPIC.

You can likely overclock them to ~ stock 580 speeds.

Just ensure the case cooling and PSU are upto the job.

I have a similar single card setup and the o/c headroom was huge (see sig).

 

[arc@css]

No, don't upgrade. Pointless atm, possibly pointless for quite some time, almost entirely regardless of the title.

 

[gadget^]

Remember the Zalman cooler on those 480's is EPIC.

You can likely overclock them to ~ stock 580 speeds.

Just ensure the case cooling and PSU are upto the job.

I have a similar single card setup and the o/c headroom was huge (see sig).

ive never oc gfx card always purchased the OC version as standard always worried artifacting or cooking the card.

 

[Tediore]

2 high end gpu's - £400.00-£450.00 each
1 mid -top end cpu £400
1 high end mobo £300
1 Cooler £50.00
12gb Ram £250.00
ssd x 2 £400.00

while most of my current equipment is good its 12 months ish old

so may be £2000.00 then as i can use a few items on my PC

Where are you buying your components?!

If you were to upgrade now:

580s - £750-ish
i5 2500k - £160
Motherboard - £160 (basing this on the popular ASRock Z68 Extreme4 Gen 3)
CPU cooler - about right at £50 for a good one (something like a Thermalright Silver Arrow or Corsair H60)
RAM - you can get 16GB for £90 - £100
SSDs - depends what size you go for really, but a couple of 128GB ones is £270 if you go for the Crucial M4.