2g 256bit GTX560 or 1g 192bit GTX550Ti
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JLmike7
June 15, 2012 1:27:20 PM
Title says it all. Poor college kid here trying to build a slightly-gamer-ish computer.
I am looking at two cards, which can be compared here:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Productcompare.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709+4017+600094002&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&CompareItemList=48%7C14-162-085%5E14-162-085-TS%2C14-130-625%5E14-130-625-TS
Needs:
<$200
PCIe 2.0 x16
SLI / Crossfire support
3 video outs.
Wants
<$150
Obviously the fastest possible.
What it will be doing:
Displaying on 3 monitors at once. (They are 1440x900, 500x900, and 1280x1024)
And I plan on doing a bit of gaming on the 1440x900 screen. (MineCraft, Portal, Rise of Nations, etc.)
Thanks in advance and much love to you all!
I am looking at two cards, which can be compared here:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Productcompare.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100007709+4017+600094002&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&CompareItemList=48%7C14-162-085%5E14-162-085-TS%2C14-130-625%5E14-130-625-TS
Needs:
<$200
PCIe 2.0 x16
SLI / Crossfire support
3 video outs.
Wants
<$150
Obviously the fastest possible.
What it will be doing:
Displaying on 3 monitors at once. (They are 1440x900, 500x900, and 1280x1024)
And I plan on doing a bit of gaming on the 1440x900 screen. (MineCraft, Portal, Rise of Nations, etc.)
Thanks in advance and much love to you all!
More about : 256bit gtx560 192bit gtx550ti
Sonny73N
June 15, 2012 1:45:13 PM
JLmike7
June 15, 2012 2:06:45 PM
Maybe it's just Newegg being strange, but I can't seam to find any decent AMD cards. That's really the only reason I chose nVidia.
This is my MoBo. It can do CrossFireX and SLI.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138317
I know that the 560 is a good bit better, but I guess what I'm really asking is if the 2gb and 256-bit bus will make a big difference in my setup.
This is my MoBo. It can do CrossFireX and SLI.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813138317
I know that the 560 is a good bit better, but I guess what I'm really asking is if the 2gb and 256-bit bus will make a big difference in my setup.
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JLmike7
June 15, 2012 2:49:33 PM
Also this is my PSU. The two cards I am comparing should be fine to crossfire on it.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371031
My whole build consists of:
60gb SSD (1x)
wireless card (1x)
i5 2500k
4gb ripjaws ram (4x)
dvd reader/writer (1x)
I am hoping to SLI/CrossFireX two cards later on. I just need to get the first card now to get my build off the ground.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371031
My whole build consists of:
60gb SSD (1x)
wireless card (1x)
i5 2500k
4gb ripjaws ram (4x)
dvd reader/writer (1x)
I am hoping to SLI/CrossFireX two cards later on. I just need to get the first card now to get my build off the ground.
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JLmike7
June 15, 2012 4:01:48 PM
JLmike7
June 15, 2012 5:38:05 PM
JLmike7
June 18, 2012 1:09:48 PM
JLmike7 said:
I've done a bit of SLI research, and am still a little fuzzy. If I have two 550Ti cards using SLI, can I use 3 monitors?Could I use 3 monitors if I disabled SLI???
The GTX 550 ti has a quite high pixel rate among the cards in that price range, that's why it does not lose that much performance when running in high resolutions or using multi-monitors, so you should be fine with GTX 550 ti SLI'ed..........but if i were you i would go for the single 560 since it will perform slightly better than 2 of the GTX 550 ti and cheaper
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