I posted for a price check in the MM, will wait and see what people come back with.
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Upgrade from 470 to 580. Worth it or not?
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Nope to match the 580 at stock you need 900MHz. 800MHz will mostly match a stock GTX480 tho you need 840MHz to match or beat a stock GTX480 in every area (except VRAM amount).
I'm using a Q9550 currently clocked to 4gig with GTX470 SLI and I know a few people with i7 or SB setups that are very similiar and running similiar clockspeeds and in most games/benchmarks there is no difference in smoothness or performance, tho there are the odd games that are an exception.
I was going to make the jump to SB myself but having setup almost identical system to what I was going to upgrade to for someone else I found the difference in performance and so on very little compared to my setup and thats with them running side by side so I didn't bother spending the money (there are some desktop tasks i.e. media encoding and a small number of games where there is a bigger difference but I don't happen to play any of those games and don't mind waiting an extra few minutes on video compression).
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