Hey, do you think its worth getting this if i just have 1 1080p monitor? I currently have 2 gtx 560ti's but the vram is only 1gb and it sucks for bf3. Is 3gb too much or should i aim for 2gb?
Ah the reference cooler! Man, I bought my 3GBs too early. Now EVGA and Zotac use the reference coolers, that's a lot smarter than Palit's crappy custom solution. I had to return the third 580 because that cooler wasn't able to handle Tri-SLI. Would be a non-issue with the much better reference cooler!
@slaWterCH I feel ur pain dude, i use to have Palit Sonic Platnum edition, same cooler as the 3gb 580 your talking about with the twin setup, i had to buy a new motherboard with a better pcie layout so they could breath. Temps were ridiculous. I think in any case reference or non reference, when you sandwhich three cards together like that, best solution is watercool. I aim to do this next, just purchased a new Lian Li PC-Z70 case, however i ran out of funds for two waterblocks
@abshassan I used to water cool SLI setups for quite a while in the early Multi-GPU days. It would be the best solution but I'm not really a fan of it. It's just too much work with every new generation of cards. Tri-SLI is possible with the reference cooler though. Temps won't be good but the system can work without issues. Palit really f*cked up their cooling choice. The 3GB version is only useful in 2,3 or 4 way SLI and that cooler just doesn't cut it for that load.
how is the 3 gb better than the 1.5 obviously there is more but will games use it with 2 cards like that? how much more fps would i get from 6 gigs total than from sli with the 580 1.5 gig cards?
@wcchalo SLI doesn't work like that, it doesn't double your Vram. When you have 1.5gb with SLI its 1.5gb running in sync, so its still 1.5gb worth of vram. The 3GB of Vram will only come in handy at high resolutions & high Anti-Aliasing. For example, in Metro 2033 I run at 6028x1080 with 4x msaa it uses up 2.3gb of vram & Dirt 3 @ 6028x1080, with 8x msaa it uses 1983mb of vram. But if your running 1920x1080 or single monitor setup, then yeah, the 3GB will hardly be worth it.
@wcchalo as in how much fps gain do you get from 1.5gb sli vs 3gb sli?. As per my comment before, you will only see gains in high resolutions (more then 1080p) with anti aliasing and settings on max. So short answer is, no gains for single monitor, gains for large resolutions. I've never had 1.5gb 580 so i cant get you a def answer.
@abshassan However, 3GB does help for massive textures, like RAGE game where if you do 16k textures on everything, it will eat up 1.8 GB of VRAM on 1080p, so it does help sometimes.
@teletran8 Haha i did a test @ 6028x1080 with 8xaa Ultra, it did 60fps avg. Just gotta turn down ambient occlusion down a notch (from ultra-high) and it will do it @ 70fps avg, The Vram gets close to 2.5gb of usage!
Would I get max resoloution for a 22" tv that is full hd 1080p with this graphics card?
aerovias1234 2 months ago
Hey, do you think its worth getting this if i just have 1 1080p monitor? I currently have 2 gtx 560ti's but the vram is only 1gb and it sucks for bf3. Is 3gb too much or should i aim for 2gb?
massacrene1 2 months ago
this is beautiful
MementoFX 4 months ago
If I will have the only one of this, it will be overheating? With no watercooling.
LegoInr 6 months ago
Ah the reference cooler! Man, I bought my 3GBs too early. Now EVGA and Zotac use the reference coolers, that's a lot smarter than Palit's crappy custom solution. I had to return the third 580 because that cooler wasn't able to handle Tri-SLI. Would be a non-issue with the much better reference cooler!
slaWterCH 9 months ago
@slaWterCH I feel ur pain dude, i use to have Palit Sonic Platnum edition, same cooler as the 3gb 580 your talking about with the twin setup, i had to buy a new motherboard with a better pcie layout so they could breath. Temps were ridiculous. I think in any case reference or non reference, when you sandwhich three cards together like that, best solution is watercool. I aim to do this next, just purchased a new Lian Li PC-Z70 case, however i ran out of funds for two waterblocks
abshassan 9 months ago
@abshassan I used to water cool SLI setups for quite a while in the early Multi-GPU days. It would be the best solution but I'm not really a fan of it. It's just too much work with every new generation of cards. Tri-SLI is possible with the reference cooler though. Temps won't be good but the system can work without issues. Palit really f*cked up their cooling choice. The 3GB version is only useful in 2,3 or 4 way SLI and that cooler just doesn't cut it for that load.
slaWterCH 9 months ago
how is the 3 gb better than the 1.5 obviously there is more but will games use it with 2 cards like that? how much more fps would i get from 6 gigs total than from sli with the 580 1.5 gig cards?
wcchalo 9 months ago
@wcchalo SLI doesn't work like that, it doesn't double your Vram. When you have 1.5gb with SLI its 1.5gb running in sync, so its still 1.5gb worth of vram. The 3GB of Vram will only come in handy at high resolutions & high Anti-Aliasing. For example, in Metro 2033 I run at 6028x1080 with 4x msaa it uses up 2.3gb of vram & Dirt 3 @ 6028x1080, with 8x msaa it uses 1983mb of vram. But if your running 1920x1080 or single monitor setup, then yeah, the 3GB will hardly be worth it.
abshassan 9 months ago
your psu is upside down
wcchalo 9 months ago
@wcchalo I did that on purpose, the holes dont seem to line up to well, i dont want to starve the psu of adequate airflow.
abshassan 9 months ago
@abshassan can you please answer my other question
wcchalo 9 months ago
@wcchalo as in how much fps gain do you get from 1.5gb sli vs 3gb sli?. As per my comment before, you will only see gains in high resolutions (more then 1080p) with anti aliasing and settings on max. So short answer is, no gains for single monitor, gains for large resolutions. I've never had 1.5gb 580 so i cant get you a def answer.
abshassan 9 months ago
@abshassan However, 3GB does help for massive textures, like RAGE game where if you do 16k textures on everything, it will eat up 1.8 GB of VRAM on 1080p, so it does help sometimes.
BodethIII 4 months ago
I'd love to see you run these on Dirt 3's benchmark in Ultra @ 1080p or better maybe 4x msaa or better too. Great video.
teletran8 9 months ago
@teletran8 Haha i did a test @ 6028x1080 with 8xaa Ultra, it did 60fps avg. Just gotta turn down ambient occlusion down a notch (from ultra-high) and it will do it @ 70fps avg, The Vram gets close to 2.5gb of usage!
abshassan 9 months ago
@abshassan HOLY COW MAN! 2.5 GB! Good thing you have that card :D I want one...I think :D
teletran8 9 months ago