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    was looking to get either a 670 ftw 4gb about $479
    or 680ftw 2gb for about $511
    all with tax and shipping included.
    I am thinking of upgrading my monitor to 2560x1440
    whatever I get I will be sli.
    what do you kepler guys think?
     
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    4gb ftw 670s for you. :) All you need to worry about with kepler is the throttling.
     
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    Okay what do you guy's think of this one it's a 21.5" 1920x1080 IPS panel and the price is very appealing.http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16824236205

    I was thinking to get the monitors first Anandtech shows my video card being able to handle all three monitors (not averaging 60fps but above 30fps) and after I have the monitors squared away go to the 780 when it comes out or 780sli.


    You've had the 580sli so long and the wait for the 780's is not that much longer I would say upgrade your monitor and wait on the 780's like I plan to do.
     
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    So has this been my experience honestly.
     

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    I`m thinking I am going to do this upgrade and upgrade when maxwell comes out. I have uses for my 580`s. one in my back up rig running at 900/4400 and cooler. replacing a hot stock 480 at 700mhz and put the other 580 in my kids rig that has a 295 in it
     
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    In that case go for the 670 FTW+ 4GB the performance difference from 670-680 is so minor I would venture to say it would almost disappear in sli. By the way your reasons for replacing are good you will be getting rid of two fire hazards lol.
     
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    I wouldnt expect that asus monitor to be on sale for very long, you would probably have to buy it quick. triple monitors on 1 670 is going to be brutal tbh
     
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    Marriage is good if your with the right women! Ive had loads of women over the years and i wouldnt change my Wife for anyone of them.
     
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    From my results so far, 680 is quite a big downgrade from 580 sli, I got my 680FTW for $479 from amazon no tax. 4$ shipped for 1 day shipping. I am also running a 2560x1440 monitor 120hz and 2GB of vram is plenty except for heavily modded skyrim or such games with very high AA(8xMSAA/16xCSAA or more with SSAA). But if you go 2560x1440 4xAA is plenty, no need for 4GB. But i did lose on average 30% fps on my 580 sli from monitor upgrade due to doubling the amount of pixels close to 4 million.
    http://www.overlordcomputer.com/overlord_tempest_X270OC_display_p/ot_x270oc_a.htm
    Monitor i got, well worth it. Once you go 120hz you cant go back
    Undecided, i dont know if ill get another card or not. SLI is not necessary if youre going to keep your 1080P/1200P monitor with 60hz limitation. I might just wait 3 months for the 780 and sell this card.
    Oh and about 680vs670. I went with a 680 because of OCing. The reason 670 performs so close to 680 is because many games like metro 2033/crysis are more memory bandwidth starved and arent affected as much by shader amount. Once you OC memory to 7.2ghz you should gain measurable fps boost. i gained about 10fps from that in crysis warhead
    @OP I was obviously making a joke but maybe it wasnt obvious to you, and took it personally. No hard feelings

    True story, but when you make the majority of the money in the household, i dont see how anyone can deal with " you cant buy this or that" crap lol
     
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    Yeah I know but if its too unbearable I can just throw a second one in to hold me over till 780sli.

    Agent it would take a lot more than what you said for me to take it personally sorry sarcasm does not translate well over the internet.
     
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    tbh a properly configured 680 will trounce a 670 and compete with x2 580s (so long as the 580s aren't properly configured, same goes for 670).
    on release due to lack of driver support the 670 >680 difference was much wider than nowadays, generally take a 680 lightning and it'll destroy every single gpu out there, and i even believe the 7970 lightning would strain against a 680 one nowadays at least in most scenarios, you know they fumble along at 1.4ghz @ 60C with those two lil' fans?
     
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    any concrete evidence the 780 is coming out in 3 months? I seen the gk110 tesla card on newegg and its a monster. about 2500 shaders
     
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    It'll be summertime before any are available /reasonably priced.
    even then they'll be chitty vanillas, with all respect.
    i'd say September perhaps for a 780 lightning(available /reasonably priced).
     
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    Sources are point towards an april release, all i can remember. Forgot where i read it but i saw it in 2 different sites.

    but my guess a 780 will have roughly 2496 to 2880 shader cores depending if they disable SMXs or not, but i assume theyll leave it fully unlocked. probably 3gb vram, likely 384bit like the 580. Should roughly translate into a 40-50% gain over a 680. I think you could hold out on a single 680 for 3 months

    the tesla k20x has 2688 cores but it has a single SMX disabled last time i checked. So a fully unlocked 780 would have 2880 cores.
     
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    the 780 is gonna be x2 faster than 680? just like the 680 was gonna be x3 faster than 580 hehe.
    but sure perhaps but it'll probably come with a price tag.
     

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    well as of now, i doubt itll translate to a 90% increase due to almost doubling shader cores, but as of now 680 is memory bandwidth starved, as shown by 670 and 680 being so close. But going to 384bit will add 50% more memory bandwidth if they can clock the ram high enough.
     
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    i wouldn't use the word 'starved', i'll throw another 680 in this rig and get 60fps in a new dawn demo ...maybe LOL
    But sure point taken.
     
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    well thats good reason a 7970 > 680 in metro 2033. its a game affected heavily by memory bandwidth, as is crysis. reverse affect of a 580 vs a 6970 due to huge difference in memory bandwidth. another reason why a 680 isnt any faster than a 580 in crysis.

    Yeah i based info on an anandtech article i read about the tesla, but i might have seen that article a couple months ago.
    btw why havent you gone water yet?
     
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    I have to agree with you there it seems that over clocking the memory tends to get better results on my card than just messing with core clock. Remember the 670 FTW is core clock the same as a stock 680 but has 200mhz more on the memory and is even or in some cases faster than a 680 atleast at time of release even though the 670 has 1/4 the shaders of the 680 the new 780 will need that wider memory bus to get any real improvements.
     

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