Thing is mate the classified will be even more money and because it's a 690 they will charge more than normal. I think all 690's will increase in price tbh. I think most places in the uk are able to sell the 690 from 2pm. I wonder if they review will be out before 2pm..?
cant put the waterblock on it then as its not a reference design. same as with the mars II, looks very nice but one big downfall, cant put a waterblock on it.
Ya know, I'm a bit curious how much that crowbar could sell for on Ebay. You could get some of your money back since some desperate guy may buy it
Joke would be on u if he bought the crowbar and successfully used it to break into your house or car :banana:
I expect it to perform like 2 680`s. the only thing to really look for is oc and heat from a dual gpu card. if they solved that, you got a winner here
It was a joke,i dont know what they can do with the Mars beings as the 690 is already 2x680's on 1 card,this is what the Mars II was,2x580's,i think the Mars III will be reserved for Gk110/685/780 or whatever they decide to call it. Yeah i thought that special fan and special alloy heatsinks that they have on the 690 may have solved this issue.
Two of those in SLI still isnt enough for what my needs are. next year for me. The version of Crysis i am running will slaughter those cards @ 2560x1600 8x-16xaa with filters. need more video memory. Maximum game. :bang:
Wouldnt be better to put the Graphics electronics PCB on the bottem half of the motherboard get rid of some pci slots? Socketable GPU, upgradable video memory on motheboard with DVI on back like onboard vid or lan/sound/usb? Id rather go to frys, newegg, tigerdirect and buy a new GPU chip or GPU memory when i need to upgrade rather then going through 8 different Generation of cards lying around. i need more vid memory now...1 gb isnt enough, why cant i install 2gb on the same GPU chip. or vice-versa....sigh. Xbox GPU is onboard just intergrated and priority. imagine if Intel did this. intergrated CPU, memory, and PCB...caugh mainboard. buy a whole new one each time? "i just upgraded my memory btw...6gb- 12gb. Thanks Intel...Sigh AMD and Nvidia. Priority comes to mind, and this stuff used to happen with APPLE. Slot A...or socket A....humm.
I would think 2 680 2gb would run that just fine imo, nvidia does more with less. why not get 2 680 4gb when released. they migh have 15-20 on launch act fast
4gb for 680 is overkill, u need 4 GPU in order to really grab the 4gb., the funny thing is, right when u get to 3500mb or more, the gpus will most likely slow down to a crawl. if you used two 680 with 4gb and loaded them up with enough detail in video memory @ 4gb it wouldnt run, you would need most likely 3 680 to keep GPU speed happy matching the very high amount of data. The version of Crysis i am running puts Metro2033 to shame and every game ive ever played thus far graphic intensity...2560x1600 8x in this version will make 4 680 4gb cry. the rendering system is only set to values of 3..in alot of the system settings, i think 5 is max and mabe more. running this game in Pure HD, with UHD resolution, take some horsepower. Its ok, the 690 is a hell of a fast card and i am sure there will be lots of happy users...but i need to wait, Heat, energy, speed, and the amount of GPUS to run is a concern still for me and this version of crysis.
the gpu speed. 4 gpus to render a heavy intese scene. 4gb is pointless on 1 or 2 gpu setup with the 680, the 2gb version is better suited for one 680 mabe two , it will never cut it at rendering with more than 3gb anyway. i wasnt going to go more than 3 5870 because of the 1gb. if i had 2gb i would of went for 4 5870. i had the money, this is my complaint, why didnt they sell the 2 gb from the get go, or nvidia, 1.5 gtx580? why not 3gb from the get go? you have the cash, the tech is there.. why that decision. The GTX 580 is the same thing. 1.5gb ram with 3 of those things and you are stuck. GTX 580 with 3gb ram and 3x-4xSLI now you can render a more intense scene. now if they could shove 3-4 of those 580 with the 3- or more memory into one chip well then, you would have what we used to get. one Video card.
Why would more memory slow down a graphics card to a crawl? It would be like telling someone that increasing the RAM in their computer will just slow it down.
Its like hitting a brick wall. Once the scene requires more than say 1gb ram thats on my 5870. the GPU has to seek somewhere else to swap data or find memory or well wait, latency/lag occurs. more memory wont slow a card down. i am talking about them not ever adding enough for 3-4 GPU setups. 9800GTX 512mb in 3way was the worst. 512mb per card..better off only ever buying 2 9800GTX cause the 3rd one cant render well anyways because of the limited memory. the 1GB cards 3way would of worked better than the 512mb in 3way. most games now it isnt a problem. Heavy modded games that exploit uses of a very powerful graphic engine "CAUGH PC GAMES CRYSIS" with the right added software, allow you to keep tunning. Now 1920x1080 @ 2xaa runs 30-40fps in Crysis 3x5870. 4Xaa doesnt run at all. and i am still not using all the HD files. before i see this @ 2560x1600 @ 8x-16XAA it might be 2-3 more years, its ok cause i can just save about 2,000 dollars for graphics cause thats how much its going to cost agian to try this. Crysis reminds me of Nintendos ULTRA 64 games when it runs maxed. and about how long it will take to emulate fully on real-time computer home hardware...right now most people are playing it like SNES version....if you guys can think that far back and relate. "killer instinct days" Anyways i dont want to get the thred off topic, 690 will be good for anyone not doing what i am doing.
