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SLI'd 670's or 970?

setter said:
:eek: Gave em away? They're still going on MM for £120.00 Ono. Good way of partially funding an upgrade to a new card.
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I gave away an entire rig. Hex core Westmere 670 SLI etc.

I don't like.. In fact no, I *hate* selling things. So I just gave it to my step daughter and her fiancée (students, avid gamers, shouldn't be spending £50 on games).
 
ALXAndy said:
I gave away an entire rig. Hex core Westmere 670 SLI etc.

I don't like.. In fact no, I *hate* selling things. So I just gave it to my step daughter and her fiancée (students, avid gamers, shouldn't be spending £50 on games).
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Best thing to do is to help out family and friends like that, i've always given my old pc stuff i dont need to people in need, probably why i can never afford new toys for myself
 
triss said:
Best thing to do is to help out family and friends like that, i've always given my old pc stuff i dont need to people in need, probably why i can never afford new toys for myself
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Yeah they're great kids. I even got to deliver it (and nearly ended up with a hernia) and see the look on their faces :D
 
ALXAndy said:
I gave away an entire rig. Hex core Westmere 670 SLI etc.

I don't like.. In fact no, I *hate* selling things. So I just gave it to my step daughter and her fiancée (students, avid gamers, shouldn't be spending £50 on games).
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Ahh, understand. Very nice gesture and I bet they were indeed pleased. I also give away some older kit to my nephews, both into computers but money is tight as one is a student and the other is still at school.
 
I’m in the same boat.

When SLI works, two 670's are blisteringly fast. I've had a few games that have given me issues. Batman Origins stuttered when I introduced second card and I have been restricted to high setting in Watchdogs due to Vram.

However looking around at 970 benchmarks over the last few days, most sites tested Watchdogs at High settings with high textures, that’s with both the 970 and the 980. So my 2gb vram limit is a limit in this instance.

I also game at 1200p. For the time being my video cards are plenty. Yes, I will probably have to lower settings in GTA 5 and Witcher 3 but it's still gonna look great.

My plan is to upgrade once Win 9 hits and we know FOR SURE that the cards are Dx12 100% compatible. At the moment there is NO guarantee these cards are 100% feature compatible with DX12.

It may say it on the product description, but we all know what marketing is like. They will advertise a dual gpu with 2Gb of ram as having '4Gb' so pinch of salt and all that!



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Hang on. If you've only got one card presently, upgrade to the 970!!! No brainer! :D
 
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I have Sli GTX 670 4GB's and I love the little buggers, very smooth performance now days and temps are reasonable (top gets upto 70c bottom around 65c) noise isnt bad as the cooler on these cards are excellent.
I shall quote my SLI experience from the "SLI is it worth it?" thread
"Been using SLI for a year now, all works fine and stable. Very little faff just enable SLI in driver and hope to christ that the game you are playing has decent SLI support (Most new games have decent out the box support that improves over time with driver updates).
As far as benching goes the latest drivers give me slightly lower scores on the usual bechmarks but the trade off is smoother SLI performance so that's a non issue.

I play some older games that doesn't need even 50% of 1 of my GPU's thankfully the bottom card usually goes into idle mode to save power (Or switches over to a PhysX card when capable). Overall I like SLI and it saved me a fair few bob.

The downside being increased temps (Especially in summer!) and increased noise although that is subjective to the cooler on your card, your case configuration and your own perception of the noise.

Once in a while you might want to faff a little (IE: some games I have to set to use only 1 GPU as the SLI support is junk, Batman:Arkham origins comes to mind, thankfully the card defaults to a PhysX card now on that netting me decent gains)"

However some people prefer single card due to less power draw at the wall its all personal preference.

I can tell you my bench scores on firestrike extreme with PC in sig is around 10.5k-11k depending entirely on which driver I'm using and overclock settings at the time so that should give you a rough ball park to compare to the 970.

I'm doubting 2GB 670's will hold up much longer given the fact I have run a few games recently at over 2GB vram used so keep that in mind.

And obviously it depends on which hardware you are choosing to pair the cards upto specifically motherboard and the spacing between cards can be quite an important factor, and CPU (Even the i5 3570k clocked at 4.6ghz slightly bottlenecks these GPU's!)
 
I'm in the same boat with 670 SLI.
I game @ 1080p / 120Hz so VRAM doesn't matter much to me.

Been VERY tempted by the 970 with the view to getting another later on, but I think I'm going to see AMD's rebuttal and the inevitable 980ti release.

I don't really NEED to upgrade, I just like buying new stuff. Last night I took a proper look at the overclock on the cards and increased my Firestrike score by about 1500, so that should tide me over for a bit.
 
Same deal here, actively eyeing the GTX 970 but looking forward to what AMD got planned, however it's clear that whatever their response may be, and it's likely to be something along the lines of 'oh we're working on stuff but in the meantime have some discounts and maybe a new last-gen doubledecker', it's going to take some time. Actually looking forward to trying the Green camp for a few generations.
 
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