Hey guys, I can get either the dcII 580 1.5gb or Phantom 3gb 580 for the same price, and wanted to ask which one will be better for me? I will use it for benching mainly and wont go over 1080p. Can I water cool either of them?
1920x1080 uses 1.3gb of vram on metro 2033 maxed. thats the most vram usage I have seen at this resolution. what happened to your dual 6990`s?
sold them and ordered an ss unit rest of the money im saving up for southern islands I can spare enough for one gtx 580
because he benches. a 560ti will only get you so far. @khalam i doubt youll be able to wc either of them since they are not reference design. all of the water blocks i have been looking into lately, be it from danger den to koolance, only have them for reference cards. as tommyk2005 stated, you should be fine with a 1.5gb 580 if your only using 1 monitor. i would suggest the asus matrix 580 if its available in your neck of the woods. not sure how much of a price difference it is between the other 2 cards you mentioned, but its worth checking out at least.
The 3gb is only going to be worth it in a few games that use large amounts of texture memory combined with high levels of AA, for benching at 1080p and below there's no benefit in the 3gb model, Khalam. But if you get them for the same price I'd defo take the 3gb, can be sold for more than the 1.5gb when you're done with it. Can't comment on waterblocks.
as stated before only those 2 i can choose from, get them for really cheap. They should both oc the same then?
hm there are some mixed results, 2 times Phantom OC's good..1 time it crapped out lol http://www.fudzilla.com/reviews/ite...0-gainward-gtx-580-3gb-phantom-tested?start=9 http://vr-zone.com/articles/vr-zone...e-gtx-580-phantom-3072mb-review/10933-10.html http://www.hard wareheaven.com/reviews/1109/pg16/asus-geforce-gtx-580-directcu-ii-vs-gainward-geforce-gtx-580-phantom-3-graphics-card-review-overclocking-power-noise-temps.html just remove the space between hard wareheaven..
I would get 3GB . Especially stuff like Crysis 2 High Res pack can use as much memory as you give it I've seen it use well over 2GB on 3GB card.
it looks like the lightning is available and apparently he has a lot of them so ill get it for the same price as the phantoms so 730$ for 2x GeForce with CUDA GTX 580 OC MSI 1536MB Lightning OC which seems to be an all around winner
i would say since i sold two ref. 580's around 385 np (one on ebay other privite) 400-450 just a fast sale ballpark range.
dont remember about fan noise db and fram rates of crapy msi phantom 3gb . you just pays +95$ just for 0.2 fram more than asus dcu ii 580 ! are you crazy? if answer yes then go buy crapy msi .
sorry darkwish but I didnt understand what you wrote at all... phantom is gigabyte thats for one second, im getting the msi lightning 1.5gb for the same price as dcII and phantom and lastly lightning is known to be the best 580 but for the asus matrix
