I'm finding my 280 is starting to get a bit sluggish with some of the newer games I'm trying to throw at it. I'm using a 30" tft, so want a card that can deal with the 2560*1600 res. Is there any card worth swapping the 280 out for at the moment?
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Upgrade from a GTX 280
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I'd rather avoid SLI / Crossfire, UNLESS they have finally come of age. When I tried it back in the 7800GTX days, SLi was so-so, and Crossfire with the 3870's wasn't much better.
I'm also noticing the sound of the 280 these days, Ideally, if there are any decent cooler units out there that would also be ideal.
Asus P6T Deluxe
Lots of ram
1Kw PSU.
I'd rather avoid SLI / Crossfire, UNLESS they have finally come of age. When I tried it back in the 7800GTX days, SLi was so-so, and Crossfire with the 3870's wasn't much better.
I'm also noticing the sound of the 280 these days, Ideally, if there are any decent cooler units out there that would also be ideal.
Either hang on for fermi or get a 5970 / xfire 5870 or if dx11 doesn't matter to you then you could grab a second hand 4870X2.
Personally to really push the frames at that res I think you are going to have to go dual card / gpu or even tri if you wish to play most or all games with high levels of eye candy enabled.
Personally to really push the frames at that res I think you are going to have to go dual card / gpu or even tri if you wish to play most or all games with high levels of eye candy enabled.
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5970 is your best option for this point in time, or sli.
If you hang on then fermi might have some good alternatives to it all.
If you hang on then fermi might have some good alternatives to it all.
SLI on an intel board is a lot less painful than it was back in the day on nForce boards... and at that res with a couple of 280 cards you should see very good gains in performance.
Its still not perfect - but I'm running 260 SLI on a 2048x screen day to day and very rarely have any problems - and most new games either support SLI on release or theres a driver update very shortly... only game outstanding really atm is dirt 2 and I don't play that personally heh.
Volt mods are generally counter productive for 200 series cores - all the best overclocks have been done on stock voltage with extreme cooling.
I'm running a 5870 at that res and it's great, cool & quiet and smooth as butter E.C. If you can afford it go for the 5970 though as that apparently is also easy to live with as long as it fits in your case.
I think your better off selling your 280 instead of SLI'ing as your probably going to suffer from low minimum framerates and aa performance hits at that res.