Dear Sam [3GB GTX 580]

[remanz]

<rant>

I am so fed up with SLI as well. wow doesn't support SLI is well known. But all these new PC games (mostly stupid console ports these days), most of them have poor SLI support on day 1. Always have to wait for SLI patches , profile updates. And I have a GTX295, which is a dual GPU GTX 280 on 1 card. Since it can't handle the heat and two chips being so closed to each other, it has to throttle the 280 speed for each. So when SLI is not supported, my 295 is slower than a single 280. It runs at around GTX 260 performance.

So when they announced GTX 590, which is two throttled GTX 580 glued together. I am "so not gonna fall for this shit again."

So the verdict is , if you can get by with 1 card, go with 1. If you want to push it really hard and don't mind the wait for SLI patches, then go with normal 2 card SLI. stay away from dual GPU card 295 , 590 etc.

</rant>

[MiRai]

So when they announced GTX 590, which is two throttled GTX 580 glued together. I am "so not gonna fall for this shit again."

I couldn't agree more with the rant about underclocking GPUs so they can jam them together on the same card.

However.......

http://www.techpowerup.com/146327/AS...thusiasts.html
http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=146588