Zotac GTX 580 3GB

My new Zotac GTX 580 3GB. The 3GB helps out in NV surround with High AA. Awesome cards. Will watercool these soon.

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[slaWterCH]

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!

[abshassan]

@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

[wcchalo]

your psu is upside down

[abshassan]

@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.

[wcchalo]

@abshassan can you please answer my other question

[abshassan]

@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.

[aerovias1234]

Would I get max resoloution for a 22" tv that is full hd 1080p with this graphics card?

[massacrene1]

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?

[MementoFX]

this is beautiful

[BodethIII]

@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.

[LegoInr]

If I will have the only one of this, it will be overheating? With no watercooling.

[slaWterCH]

@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.