To buy a 690 or not to buy ??

gd12 · **To buy a 690 or not to buy ?? -** 05-06-2012, 11:32 | posts: 9

Hi to everyone ... in a few months I am going to make a new PC ( desktop ) , from scratch and I am thinking of buying a gtx 680 or gtx 690 . My monitor's screen resolution is 1920x1080 ( 24 inches ) ..
Do you think that putting a 690 in that monitor is a waste of money ??? Because, as we all know, the gtx 690 isn't cheap ... I want to play games in the best possible way in high settings and I am not thinking of neither buying a new monitor nor connecting the card in multiple monitors or TV.. so, the target in my case is frame rates ... Do you think that 680 should do the trick ???

hallryu · 05-06-2012, 11:38 | posts: 10,841 | Location: England

A single 680 or 7970 is enough for that resolution.

Spets · 05-06-2012, 12:00 | posts: 1,429

680 should be enough, if you feel it isn't you can always grab another one.

Veteran · 05-06-2012, 12:02 | posts: 7,393 | Location: United kingdom

Buy Buy Buy!

RoadKillNL · 05-06-2012, 12:12 | posts: 2,547 | Location: The Netherlands

Seeing the price of the 690 id personally get 2 x 680 4GB.

Easier to sell in the future aswell.

Frohman0905 · 05-06-2012, 12:22 | posts: 939 | Location: Belgium

If the leaked benchmarks are true, even a GTX670 is plenty for that resolution.

Veteran · 05-06-2012, 15:39 | posts: 7,393 | Location: United kingdom

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Originally Posted by RoadKillNL

Seeing the price of the 690 id personally get 2 x 680 4GB.

Easier to sell in the future aswell.

I dunno the 590 still sells for £500 easily and thats old now,i think the 690 will be on par with Mars II and there a limited build so who knows when stocks will dry up,i may buy another one depending on the next 2-3 weeks.

I wont need to buy any cards again for about 5 years gaming at my resolution of 1440p.

Denial · 05-06-2012, 15:47 | posts: 6,348 | Location: Above Earth in a Big Rocket Ship

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Originally Posted by Veteran

I dunno the 590 still sells for £500 easily and thats old now,i think the 690 will be on par with Mars II and there a limited build so who knows when stocks will dry up,i may buy another one depending on the next 2-3 weeks.

I wont need to buy any cards again for about 5 years gaming at my resolution of 1440p.

You can always buy a 680 and tri SLI it with the 690 - the PLX chip supports it supposedly.

Agent-A01 · 05-06-2012, 16:15 | posts: 5,624 | Location: USA

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Originally Posted by Veteran

Buy Buy Buy!

This, if you can find one

lucidus · 05-06-2012, 16:39 | posts: 3,220 | Location: UAE

Single 680 will be fine.

Spets · 05-06-2012, 16:48 | posts: 1,429

If you do plan on getting the 690, you'll have to decide fast

they'll be gone the moment they hit the shelves.

Comrade_Jerkov · 05-06-2012, 16:52 | posts: 126 | Location: Boston, MA

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Originally Posted by gd12

Hi to everyone ... in a few months I am going to make a new PC ( desktop ) , from scratch and I am thinking of buying a gtx 680 or gtx 690 . My monitor's screen resolution is 1920x1080 ( 24 inches ) ..
Do you think that putting a 690 in that monitor is a waste of money ??? Because, as we all know, the gtx 690 isn't cheap ... I want to play games in the best possible way in high settings and I am not thinking of neither buying a new monitor nor connecting the card in multiple monitors or TV.. so, the target in my case is frame rates ... Do you think that 680 should do the trick ???

Considering the current scarcity of the 680, you will likely have to be first in line for the 690. If you're just playing at 1080, then a 680 will be great for years to come. Hopefully by the time the 690 comes out there will be some more 680's available.

Denial · 05-06-2012, 17:09 | posts: 6,348 | Location: Above Earth in a Big Rocket Ship

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Originally Posted by Comrade_Jerkov

Considering the current scarcity of the 680, you will likely have to be first in line for the 690. If you're just playing at 1080, then a 680 will be great for years to come. Hopefully by the time the 690 comes out there will be some more 680's available.

690 is already out, and since it uses the same chip it's only going to cut into 680's supply.

Krogtheclown · 05-06-2012, 17:13 | posts: 909 | Location: Illinois

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Originally Posted by gd12

Hi to everyone ... in a few months I am going to make a new PC ( desktop ) , from scratch and I am thinking of buying a gtx 680 or gtx 690 . My monitor's screen resolution is 1920x1080 ( 24 inches ) ..
Do you think that putting a 690 in that monitor is a waste of money ??? Because, as we all know, the gtx 690 isn't cheap ... I want to play games in the best possible way in high settings and I am not thinking of neither buying a new monitor nor connecting the card in multiple monitors or TV.. so, the target in my case is frame rates ... Do you think that 680 should do the trick ???

i wouldn't buy the 690, 2GB is ram is a shame and if you ever decide to use 3 monitors you'll be sorry you did.
I had 3 580 and the 1.5 gig of ram was aweful.

Comrade_Jerkov · 05-06-2012, 17:39 | posts: 126 | Location: Boston, MA

True but very few people actually run a 3 monitor setup.

valrond · 05-06-2012, 17:53 | posts: 47 | Location: Spain

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Originally Posted by Comrade_Jerkov

True but very few people actually run a 3 monitor setup.

I do, and I can play just fine with my GTX 480 SLI (which, btw is as powerful or even a little more than a GTX 680)

Denial · *Last edited by Denial; 05-06-2012 at 18:51.*

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Originally Posted by Krogtheclown

i wouldn't buy the 690, 2GB is ram is a shame and if you ever decide to use 3 monitors you'll be sorry you did.
I had 3 580 and the 1.5 gig of ram was aweful.

Uhh, if you check benchmarks pretty much every test that the 690 beats crossfire 7970's in normal resolutions, it also beats by a larger margin in 3 monitor scenarios. Which to me, means that the 7970's larger amount of ram amounts to nothing.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...rk,3193-8.html

BlackZero · *Last edited by BlackZero; 05-06-2012 at 22:28.*

There's a massive difference between benchmarks and real world usage. Benchmarks tend to leave out all the stutters caused by a lack of vram.

To illustrate, if your fps was constantly changing between the lowest and highest number recorded it would not be smooth enough to play, but the benchmark would simply give you the average number and you would assume that's where the fps stayed most of the time.

Comrade_Jerkov · 05-06-2012, 22:28 | posts: 126 | Location: Boston, MA

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Originally Posted by valrond

I do, and I can play just fine with my GTX 480 SLI (which, btw is as powerful or even a little more than a GTX 680)

That's proof that 1536 is plenty then.

A M D BugBear · 05-06-2012, 23:01 | posts: 1,588

you can also make good profit from the 690 over time, buy a couple, wait several months later when it becomes absolutely scarce and utmost rare, sell it for 500 more, people will still buy it, sure cause its super duper pimp ass pooper rare.

I know I am getting one.

maxio · 05-07-2012, 00:58 | posts: 68

Wait for the GTX670 and OC it ;-)
GTX670 is plenty for that resolution.
Rest of the moneys spend on some <insert any random cool thing you got on your mind ;-)>

angmar · 05-07-2012, 05:22 | posts: 1,025 | Location: Monmouth County, NJ

You could buy it but for your purposes I honestly think it would just amount to a massive waste of money considering I play at 1080p and get great performance out of my single GTX 480 still which can be had for 1/5 the cost.

GhostXL · 05-07-2012, 05:23 | posts: 4,916 | Location: PA, USA

Even at 1920x1080 Crossfire and SLI work wonders.

It really depends on the level of AA you use, and if you want supersampling to run at least 60 FPS, while maxing out your games' detail levels.

gd12 · 05-07-2012, 18:06 | posts: 9

Thank's for the answers people ... I will probably buy a 680 ... 690 is a waste of money in that resolution .. and at the end if I buy a new monitor with higher resolution in the future I will put another one in SLI mode. After all 1.000 euro's ( that's the price here in Greece for 690 ) for a graphics card in a new pc built is commiting suicide ... we are in the middle of economic crisis here in Greece with wages dropping like hell and a very unstable political system .. for now I have a job .. anyway thank you all for your time.

A M D BugBear · 05-07-2012, 18:38 | posts: 1,588

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Originally Posted by gd12

Thank's for the answers people ... I will probably buy a 680 ... 690 is a waste of money in that resolution .. and at the end if I buy a new monitor with higher resolution in the future I will put another one in SLI mode. After all 1.000 euro's ( that's the price here in Greece for 690 ) for a graphics card in a new pc built is commiting suicide ... we are in the middle of economic crisis here in Greece with wages dropping like hell and a very unstable political system .. for now I have a job .. anyway thank you all for your time.

not really a waste unless he had incredible high amounts of aa insane quality and texture mods, etc enabled.

Just in lineage2 or ffxi with the settings I am using with nvidia inspector now, over 1gb vram, and thoses games are old and still looks sharp with high insane aa settings is turned on.