Gtx 680?

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Richaye

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Hello I plan on upgrading to a GTX 680, Just out of curiosity is my setup currently good to go for a 680? I plan on selling the GTX 580 for a 680.
I'm talking about motherboard, and case wise.

i7 2600k
ASRock Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3
EVGA GTX 580 1.5
Kingston HyperX 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3
128 GB SSD, 1Tb HDD
DVD
Windows 7
Logitech
Slim Illuminated Keyboard
Corsair Professional Series HX850
Fractal Design Define R3 Case
G9x

Thank you.
 
Richaye said:
Hello I plan on upgrading to a GTX 680, Just out of curiosity is my setup currently good to go for a 680? I plan on selling the GTX 580 for a 680.
I'm talking about motherboard, and case wise.

i7 2600k
ASRock Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3
EVGA GTX 580 1.5
Kingston HyperX 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3
128 GB SSD, 1Tb HDD
DVD
Windows 7
Logitech
Slim Illuminated Keyboard
Corsair Professional Series HX850
Fractal Design Define R3 Case
G9x

Thank you.
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He's asking whether it will fit in his case and whether it's compatible with his motherboard, not recommendations on whether he should upgrade or not.

To answer the OP, yes, with the GTX 680 coming in at about 10.5 inches, it should fit fine in your R3.
 
Richaye said:
Hello I plan on upgrading to a GTX 680, Just out of curiosity is my setup currently good to go for a 680? I plan on selling the GTX 580 for a 680.
I'm talking about motherboard, and case wise.

i7 2600k
ASRock Fatal1ty Z68 Professional Gen3
EVGA GTX 580 1.5
Kingston HyperX 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3
128 GB SSD, 1Tb HDD
DVD
Windows 7
Logitech
Slim Illuminated Keyboard
Corsair Professional Series HX850
Fractal Design Define R3 Case
G9x

Thank you.
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Yes, it's fine. I don't know why people recommend a 580. To the same effect, you might as well get a 480.
 
I'd don't know where you get that from? Everywhere I have seen shows that the 580 sli is better than a single 680 but if you can prove me wrong I will accept it. But the temp will be an issue if your case isn't well ventilated and driver could be a problem but shouldn't really be bad
 
harry clemance said:
I'd don't know where you get that from? Everywhere I have seen shows that the 580 sli is better than a single 680 but if you can prove me wrong I will accept it. But the temp will be an issue if your case isn't well ventilated and driver could be a problem but shouldn't really be bad
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2 in SLI will outperform a 680, but a 680 is much faster than a single 580. The benefits of a single card, as claptonman said, Were stability and cooling.
 
Don't forget you also have more Vram with the 680. The 1.5GB always used to hold my 580's back a bit, even though I did have three of them lol.
 
I reckon the 7950 CF looks like a pretty pokey setup. 680 will be awesome.

Spesh said:
Don't forget you also have more Vram with the 680. The 1.5GB always used to hold my 580's back a bit, even though I did have three of them lol.
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Troncoso said:
What a first world problem....
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Hes right though 1.5GB isn't enough. It gets bottled in ultra texture games such as Skyrim, BF3. It smashes those games, but its at capacity doing so. The extra 500MB of VRAM will help. Btw,doesn't matter if you have 1, 2 or 3 GPUS in SLI/CF, it will only see up to a single card's capacity of VRAM. I'd like to see an implementation that overcomes that.
 
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bigfellla said:
Btw,doesn't matter if you have 1, 2 or 3 GPUS in SLI/CF, it will only see up to a single card's capacity of VRAM. I'd like to see an implementation that overcomes that.
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I'm not sure that will happen. If it does then it wouldn't really be SLI.

SLI works by deploying the same texture packs to the memory on each card. Each GPU renders an alternate row of pixels to the other cards in the system. When cards 2, 3 or 4 have finished processing this data they submit the result to the primary card via the SLI bridge.

So the nature of SLI means that the Vram of the individual cards can never be added. This also goes for the dual GPU cards, as they work on exactly the same principal. But, I agree it would be nice if this could be overcome.

Before I got the 680's, I was slightly concerned that only 2GB Vram would be enough for 2560x1600, but the Nvidia memory management seems to be really good. I was hitting 2.1GB Vram usage in Noshar Canals TDM with 43 players constantly, but not seeming to suffer a hit in fps.
 
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bigfellla said:
I reckon the 7950 CF looks like a pretty pokey setup. 680 will be awesome.





Hes right though 1.5GB isn't enough. It gets bottled in ultra texture games such as Skyrim, BF3. It smashes those games, but its at capacity doing so. The extra 500MB of VRAM will help. Btw,doesn't matter if you have 1, 2 or 3 GPUS in SLI/CF, it will only see up to a single card's capacity of VRAM. I'd like to see an implementation that overcomes that.
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Haha. I know it's true. I'm just saying, this came to mind:

vram.png
 
Like Spesh said, each cards memory has the same data. Would have to be a hell of a driver that could calculate how to send different data to each card in SLI or CF. Doing so would probably slow down the process so much it would kill the added preformance benefit of it.
 
Well it would be the same thing basically, but instead the card finding every 2nd/3rd/4th pixel line, it would only receive that pixel line. It doesn't seem like a difficult thing, but i'm sure it is.
 
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