TurnWRX

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So if you were looking to purchase a graphics card(s) and these 2 were your choices (no ati or any other nvidia cards besides these two), which would you prefer? Dual 570GTXs or Single 590GTX, with the 590gtx costing a few dollars more?

SkizzDawg

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You will get more out of your system running two 570's Vs a single 590. 570s have a higher core clock and shader clock to boot as ill bet your aware of.

TurnWRX

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If I were to get a single 580 GTX as part of a gaming computer package (I know it's cheaper to build my own rig but I'm not comfortable with it) and I were to buy another 580 gtx in the future from a 3rd party (like from evga or msi), would it be SLI compatible with a factory 580 gtx?

RayDZ

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As long as your mobo is sli ready

TurnWRX

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ok thanks. Motherboard would be a rampage III extreme

SkizzDawg

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i would contact them and verify that the video card is not a (insert the name of the company your buying from) modded video card. I have an old alienware system, the video cards do not work with any of the nvidia drivers found on Nvidia's website. They only work with the alienware drivers. I contacted the card manufacturer and Alienware and found out the cards have a proprietary alienware firmware. If the company your buying from uses plain Jane vanilla Nvidia cards then you will have no problem using a 3rd party 5800GTX.

TurnWRX

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Good to know. Thanks for the info!

Throwdown

BTW I understand that you dont want to mess with building a computer BUT I found it alot easier then I thought it would be. Worked right away with about 3 hours of put together time. Hit me up if you have any questions. And like skizz said make sure you contact them and ask a million questions to make sure, if ya do go with a premade system. The #1 reason I built my own system is the upgrade -ability.

TurnWRX

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Yah I just want to have peace of mind, because the company I'm looking at has a 3 year warranty built in. Not planning to purchase at this moment, but hopefully somewhere around Christmas time

So regarding the card, should I stick with dual 570 gtx or take a chance with a single 580 gtx and hope that what customer service tells me is correct, that the card will work with a 3rd party 580 gtx card in the future (regarding the drivers and sli capability)?

SkizzDawg

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IMO i would go with the dual 570's. 570s are great cards they are equal if not better than the previous years top of the line single GPU card. Two of them in SLI is more power than most people need, a single 570 is enough power for most.
What size screen will you be using?

TurnWRX

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^ 24 inch

btw I'm looking at my pc to be able to upgrade in the future like 5 years from now (graphics card-wise). Will pci express 3.0 hurt me later on if I were to buy right now?

I already can't upgrade my current card right now because it's pci express x16 and there's no card out there that supports pci express x16 anymore lol


specs I'm looking at buying:

x58 chipset
intel i7 960
rampage III extreme
1200w psu
24gb ddr3

trubluevoeater

are you talking usb 3.0 cause i understand all of the videos cards right now hook up to pci-e 16x. i just bought two 550gtx ti and hooked them up sli no problem. for sure if you go with 2 570's sli you'll be super satisfied. you'll probally be able to run bf3 with two monitors while watching a movie on tv through your computer with no hicups. lol if your talkin pci-e 2.0 then yeah its just going to allow a bigger buss advantage to process frame rates and all the cards should and will allow both. it looks like the same slot to me

TurnWRX

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there's already pci express 2.1 and 3.0 is either out or is coming out soon. Not talking about usb.

SkizzDawg

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since you say you want to be able to upgrade in 5 years might i suggest you go with a chipset and a processor that is not on its way out. go with a 2600k or a 2500k and the p67 chipset. Dont invest in that old intel socket. 24 Gigs of ram is a bit much too. i have 8 gigs and i have yet to use 75% of my ram and i do video/audio encoding/recoding and i game. Also if all your going to run is a 24in monitor, one 570 would be fine 2 would be killer, but you could use the money else where, like on an SSD for your OS and going with the more current and not on its way out intel socket and pick up a 2500k (i5) or 2600k (i7).

Eckshero

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^+1 lol you dont need 24gb of ram.