New pc beast ordered

[MiRai]

But isnt the 590 GTX a newer version than the 580 ?
why would they make it less better then a previous vid card?

The 590 is a dual-GPU card. There are two underclocked 580 GPUs on a single board and they're in SLI
unless you manually turn it off, in which case, you're left with a single underclocked 580 GPU. Most, if not
all, 590's are marketed at 3GB and none of them are. The 3GB of RAM is shared between the GPUs
meaning each GPU only gets access to 1.5GB at any given time.

[Lyonheart]

The 590 is a dual-GPU card. There are two underclocked 580 GPUs on a single board and they're in SLI
unless you manually turn it off, in which case, you're left with a single underclocked 580 GPU. Most, if not
all, 590's are marketed at 3GB and none of them are. The 3GB of RAM is shared between the GPUs
meaning each GPU only gets access to 1.5GB at any given time.

And two 570s in sli are faster in most cases, and cheaper than a 590. But WoW and sli do not work, it might be good for a lot of other games though. My 580 1.5g ram is more than enough for anything out right now. I will upgrade when 680s come out 8)

[MiRai]

And two 570s in sli are faster in most cases, and cheaper than a 590.

2x 560Ti's in SLI are actually faster than a single stock-clocked GTX 580 in most cases and I heard there is
actually a new 560Ti coming out at the end of this month that's going to be on par with the GTX 570 (same
amount of CUDA cores or something). nVidia did the same thing with the 460's last year to match the 470's.

But WoW and sli do not work, it might be good for a lot of other games though.

Technically speaking... my SLI tests did work but, I didn't test it thoroughly. What I found super annoying
with SLI while trying to multibox is that the mouse cursors flicker like crazy when repeater was enabled.

My 580 1.5g ram is more than enough for anything out right now.

This statement is definitely on a per use basis. Speaking from a non-multiboxing single game client point-
of-view, as an example I was able to crank up TERA Online's multisampling to 32x and actually play the
game smoothly with my 3GB GTX 580's in SLI. Doing so required about (from what I remember) about 2GB
of video RAM and something like 70% GPU usage (sorry for the estimates this was months ago when I was
making my last TERA video). I wasn't able to achieve smooth results like that w/o the cards in SLI.

There are also those people that like to play games using nVidia Surround or ATI's Eyefinity which easily
increases the RAM usage above 1.5GB if the eye candy is applied. Even 2560x1600 resolutions on a single
30" can exceed 1.5GB of video RAM.

I will upgrade when 680s come out 8)

I can't wait for 28nm Kepler either but, I think I might just invest in a 3rd 3GB GTX 580 to help hold me over
for an extra year or so until the 7xx series. When the 6xx series comes out I can hopefully pick up a third
5xx card for cheap.

[Lyonheart]

Yea, i was talking about the games i have played, or will play. I use a 24inch screen, 1920,1080 res. but have cranked BF3.. Skyrim ( with enhanced mods ) Crysis2 all up and have not noticed any FPS dips below 40ish? I have been tempted to buy http://www.asus.com/Display/LCD_Monitors/VG278H/ .. and i know I would need sli for that. Just not sure i would use the 3D that much. I don't think ill ever do the multi monitor thing either.

[ebony]

The 590 is a dual-GPU card. There are two underclocked 580 GPUs on a single board and they're in SLI
unless you manually turn it off, in which case, you're left with a single underclocked 580 GPU. Most, if not
all, 590's are marketed at 3GB and none of them are. The 3GB of RAM is shared between the GPUs
meaning each GPU only gets access to 1.5GB at any given time.

i had a dual GFcard before It does not LIKE window mode at all was a nightmare infact my 9800gtx worked better.

ok it was a ATI but same thing i would stay away from it (at the time could not turn of Crossfire)

i later updated to a 6950 and its a great card my ram/cpu let me down maxxing up the settings but av yet to use the full card (in wow)