GTX 680 Scaling on Sabertooth Z77

Well, If you got the money nothing can stop you then.

It'll be perfect.   Better have that 120Hz monitor.  

yea since ivy will enable 3.0. your performance is gonna make games run like butter. gonna be over kill unless you got a heavy game or big monitor

Just wanted to make sure the scaling would be worth it, and it woudn't stutter or something  

Forgive me if I missed it, but what is your monitor setup? As eluded above, a 120hz monitor might be one reason for SLI, or 2D surround, but it would be overkill for 1080p at 60hz in all but maybe a couple games, and even they will run well on a single 680.

better be overclocking that cpu =D

bf3 uses up to 60 percent of my 5ghz 2500k with a single 6970

This is with 2 580's

3DMark Vantage

Striker II extreme
2 GTX 580 Q9450 4GB memory 3.6GHz
P31497
GPU 28241
CPU 48144

Sabertooth X58
2 GTX 580 i7-950 6GB Memory 4.0GHz
P44583
GPU 40583
CPU 64506

Sabertooth X79
2 GTX 580 i7-3930K 32GB Memory 4.55GHz
P52199
GPU 45278
CPU 96416

Wouldn't it be marvelous to feel the SLI power on Crysis 3 & metro Last Night in the next year?

I have my doubts Crysis 3 will be super demanding. Crysis 2 is not. I play that with the DX11 patch and textures, maxed out in 3D vision on a single 680 at 60 FPS (max FPS in 3D).

Metro may be different. What I'm getting at is with 1080 @ 60hz, the 2nd card will rarely matter, but if he's using 3 monitors, 1440p resolution, 3D vision, or 120hz, then the 2nd one will definitely see use. That was the question he posed. The 2nd card only scales well if the monitor setup pushes it.

how does the cpu stat double from a meer .95 ghz increase? o0

Any reason you're going with Palit? They're so bad Newegg dropped all Palit product...

That PSU is proper overkill unless you plan on doing quad-SLI.



Because it's 2,5 generations newer hexa core.

*blink* not sure how i missed that

Look at all that's there, it's not just the GHz.

yeah it was already pointed out. i hadnt realized they were different systems. i thought it was just an overclock. i do a lot of scan reading, apparently i missed that

How is Palit bad :S ?? Never heard anything bad about it yet  .. already ordered it so can't go back.. besides that it was pretty cheap in my country, closer to the stock cards then to the OC +upgraded cooling cards..

It's a waste, I think they will just overheat when you put them with an ivy bridge and after a few months one of them, or both, will go kabooooom!

I had to chance my order because somehow it wasn't on stock anymore....... I already have the Gainward Phantom GTX680 4GB now.... Planning on buying a next on within 2 weeks..

And I'm going to watch my temps and make sure the airflow is good.. I'm not just going to let them "Kaboooooom" lol... Besides, Z77 has 3 slots space between the cards.. enough to get some good airflows i guess...

*cough* paperlaunch *cough*

The Sabertooth Z77 is great , just finished building mine with it and got to say it flys , you wont have any issues with yours , and the spacing of the graphics card slots are really good , Im really happy with mine. The scaling with two cards is very good , you wont see any drawbacks.

the gtx680 actually uses less power and produces less heat than one might expect. you could sli 2 of them without much worry

True Story
Got mine OC'd pretty nice and its Idle temp is 32Celcius. I love it, so much of an improvement from my old 570. Except mine is the EVGA 680 ; not sure I would use anything except EVGA at the moment

i am going to build up a new gaming computer got the budget with following specs
mb:asus sabertooth z77
pro:i5 3470
gpu:gigabyte gtx 680 windforce 3x
ram:crosair vengence 8 gb ddr3 1600 mhz
hdd:samsung spinpoint f3 1tb
any suggestions?