Time for an Upgrade

Doomedspeed · 4 Mar 2014 at 11:26

snips86x said:
It's normally hardware out-pacing software, this is a new era!

Its Hardware out-pacing hardware sufficating software.

mike_t said:
I would definitely consider it in the future.. I'm not actually home until May, so I have a few months to play with.

Would the 790 be better than two 780Ti in SLI? [/noob]

I can only assume the 790 will be (like the 7990) 2 x 780(ti) Chips on one PCB.

snips86x · 4 Mar 2014 at 11:28

That is what Toms Hardware are reporting, yes! No release date yet though!

mike_t · 4 Mar 2014 at 11:33

Doomedspeed said:
I can only assume the 790 will be (like the 7990) 2 x 780(ti) Chips on one PCB.

Would the 790 have the same amount of memory though, or double? Would that have an effect?

snips86x · 4 Mar 2014 at 11:35

It would most likely be 6gb according to Videocardz.com

Doomedspeed · 4 Mar 2014 at 11:36

snips86x said:
It would most likely be 6gb according to Videocardz.com

3gb per GPU, so 6GB, pretty standard for Dual GPU's.

mike_t · 4 Mar 2014 at 12:02

*strokes chin*

Interesting.

snips86x · 4 Mar 2014 at 12:04

However, there is no release date.

I'd recommend buying a mediocre card card to keep you going & flog it once the 790 has been released. 770/280x should do it!

mike_t · 4 Mar 2014 at 12:09

Sounds like that could be a plan, now all I need is to be home and to hide the bills from the missus...

Thanks for the help so far, no doubt I'll have more questions though I'm sure.

mike_t · 4 Mar 2014 at 12:51

Would an Ivybridge-E be better for running GPUs in SLI than the Haswell? Or is there not too big of a difference?

Doomedspeed · 4 Mar 2014 at 13:43

mike_t said:
Would an Ivybridge-E be better for running GPUs in SLI than the Haswell? Or is there not too big of a difference?

Very little difference.

3-4 Cards a Ivy-E would be needed...

But for two cards Haswell is champoin.

mike_t · 6 Mar 2014 at 06:18

snips86x said:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Asus GeForce GTX 780Ti DirectCUII OC 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £527.99
1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £239.99
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW) £149.99
1 x MSI Z87-GD65 Gaming Series Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £139.99
1 x Corsair Hydro H105 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler (CW-9060016-WW ) £93.95
1 x SuperFlower Leadex GOLD 650W Fully Modular "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £89.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan RED 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLD38G2400HC11CDC01) £65.99
Total : £1,317.48 (includes shipping : £8.00).

I think, unless the 790 arrives before June that this will be what I'm aiming for. Would it be worth going for the 780Ti Windforce or GHz editions?

Also, one of the games I'll mostly be playing is FSX, which is supposedly very processor intensive- I know I've asked this, but would FSX benefit from the Ivybridge-E even if most games wouldn't?