What will SLI with a 580 GTX?

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I have a 580 GTX, looking to SLI with another card. The Nvidia site suggests I can SLI only with another xxx GTX, but it doesn't say that has to be a 580, just that it has to have same amount of ram (3gig). Can I use a 780?
 
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sli are similar cards only. means another 580 can be sli with a 580.no you cannot use a 780 they are both different chip architectures & designs. you can get a 780 & use the 580 as a phsyx card. that is possible thou
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LOL mostly likely, highly recommend you don't do that! Think of the major difference in performance between them on top of different optimization of drivers and all that jazz too many factors come into play. On top of that I doubt anyone ever SLIs 2 totally different cards on top of them being 2 generations apart. dont recommend you try this my friend. Get yourself another 580 or simply replace the 580 with the 780 it will be more than sufficient on its own anyhow! Check this link out maybe it has the answer you are looking for: http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=1938490&mpage=1&print=true
 
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sli are similar cards only. means another 580 can be sli with a 580.no you cannot use a 780 they are both different chip architectures & designs. you can get a 780 & use the 580 as a phsyx card. that is possible thou
 
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Excellent. I think I probably knew that it wouldn't work, but they left just enough hope that it might :)

I still might go with it as a dedicated phyx card though. Could be interesting.

Thanks :)
 
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Ok so I was right! LOL I was beginning to wonder and second guess myself like wait a minute is it true then I looked further into it and realized wait no way totally different generation means totally different everything matching VRAM can't possibly be enough LOL!
 
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