A query about having two Windforce graphics cards only millimeters apart.

[Fierce Guppy]

As for me, I would always by one GTX 580 than two GTX 570 but what actually I would do is to buy only one GTX 570 because this card is going to be more than enough until next gen cards which will provide more power! SLI of expensive cards is a waste of money...

I would agree...at least as far as I am concerned. It all starts getting just too expensive with having two or more high end cards running together. Alright for the millionaires amoungst us I suppose.

You don't have to be a millionaire, just single with a job and no debt.

Tony.

[Aussie Allan]

   Haya Guppy 

Yes they are a honey of a board .... and a well thought out designed board to boot

  Enjoy it while you can......Pre wife, kids and a mortgage, ..... yeh! ... I remember having money once  A 590 in this board will hold you till the X79 and 2011 LGA settles down and become the next acquisition worth having ......I intend to hop on about the third stepping, but for now.........the board and chipset you have chosen .....is at it peak...... probably one of the best board/GPU combos money can buy .

  Let us know how the build goes

  PS......Have a look at the OCZ RevoDrive X2 or 3 ....awesome bit of kit for a C drive.....new ones will give you 1000Mb/s + (1TB) of read and write speed.........total boot time.......12 to 15 seconds

  Aussie Allan

[Dark Mantis]

Yes, I can remember that money stuff! Bits of paper you used to keep in your pocket. Then came marriage......
quickly followed by poverty.

The OCZ Revodrive is a brilliant drive and I have been well satisfied with mine. Just wish I could afford the latest x3.

[Aussie Allan]

Yes, I can remember that money stuff! Bits of paper you used to keep in your pocket. Then came marriage......
quickly followed by poverty.

The OCZ Revodrive is a brilliant drive and I have been well satisfied with mine. Just wish I could afford the latest x3.

  Rumor of a substantial price drop Q2 2012 .... possibly in the poverty price range!

[Dark Mantis]

Will have to form a queue then. I certainly want one if the price comes down somewhat.

[Fierce Guppy]

   Haya Guppy  

Yes they are a honey of a board .... and a well thought out designed board to boot

  Enjoy it while you can......Pre wife, kids and a mortgage, ..... yeh! ... I remember having money once   A 590 in this board will hold you till the X79 and 2011 LGA settles down and become the next acquisition worth having ......I intend to hop on about the third stepping, but for now.........the board and chipset you have chosen .....is at it peak...... probably one of the best board/GPU combos money can buy .

  Let us know how the build goes

The card arrived yesterday morning so I took the bubble-wrapped contents out of the carton and biked off to work with it stuffed in my backpack.  During the lunch break I conducted an "unveiling" in cafeteria in front of my workmates.  That half hour was the most fun packed lunchtime ever.  Only one sandwich was consumed.  Got it home, installed it, and after thoroughly cleaning out the old drivers and installing the latest ~beta~ drivers the card has been working flawlessly ever since. Luv it to bits.  BF3 beta looks spectacular and runs soooo smoothly.   I've run benchmark programs and nvidia demos, tested it under linux (Fedora 15).  Having a great ol' time.  The card is quieter than the GTX 295 and I found the GTX 295 to be pretty quiet.  The CPU cooler is by far the nosiest component, so next on the menu is a decent CPU cooler.

 PS......Have a look at the OCZ RevoDrive X2 or 3 ....awesome bit of kit for a C drive.....new ones will give you 1000Mb/s + (1TB) of read and write speed.........total boot time.......12 to 15 seconds

  Aussie Allan

It's a fantastically fast drive but it adds nothing to the central focus of my builds which is graphics performance.  I find that three striped WD caviar black HDDs is no bottleneck to smooth running, GPU intensive gameplay.   PerfeckDisk keeps the array defragged and so stuff generally loads fast, anyway.   At the moment I think SSDs would be most beneficial to laptop users, most of whom are currently stuck with 5200 rpm drives.

Tony.

[Dark Mantis]

Actually I tried my Corsair 256 Performance SSD in my laptop and it was certainly an improvement but not as much as you would expect. I think that is because the rest of the machine is not so much faster as it would be with a desktop. There the hard drive holds it back a lot.

[Grozdan]

...and he bought two cards again... Why is nobody listening???
Just kidding. GTX 590 is a force to be reckoned with and I hope it will serve you well until the next upgrade!

[Dark Mantis]

Certainly more than enough power there! It is a really nice card and if I wasn't running a pair of 6970s I would like to put one of those in.