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So I asked this question over on the evga forums and I'm curious as to responses here.
Now bear in mind I'm not totally sold one way or the other yet since we haven't seen real reviews yet but I digress; I'm not even sold as to whether or not I'm gonna pounce on any fermi cards or hang on to what I have for a while longer. All the rumors have me spinning. Like the supposed 512 core 480 due out soon after this launch or the dual gpu cards due out in a couple months or the supposed faster than usual jump from these cards to a refresh ala gtx 475/485 or 470 core 480 etc. There's talk about nvidia ditching this round after only a few shipments because of the shitty yields on this a3 silicon etc.
So ya all that said if I decide to pounce, and if newegg actually has more than a hanfull to sell, I was thinking about regular sli vs tri sli. Reason being is I've been pretty pleased with my 260 tri setup and the tri sli scaling has been suprisingly good. My thoughts were if a 480 is approx 10% faster than a 470 that makes a 470 the much better value and if $350 holds up makes 3 approx the same money as 2 480's. So I'm going to assume 3 470 will handily outperform 2 480's. Power requirements aren't that far from what I'm running now sooooooo.....that's what's leaning me toward tri sli.
Of course there's gonna be people who say scaling of 2 card sli is bad enough and adding a thirs card shows even less diminishing returns and to those people I say try it before you knock it. Its a lot better than you think with nvidias drivers over the last year or so.
Opinions....please.
Now bear in mind I'm not totally sold one way or the other yet since we haven't seen real reviews yet but I digress; I'm not even sold as to whether or not I'm gonna pounce on any fermi cards or hang on to what I have for a while longer. All the rumors have me spinning. Like the supposed 512 core 480 due out soon after this launch or the dual gpu cards due out in a couple months or the supposed faster than usual jump from these cards to a refresh ala gtx 475/485 or 470 core 480 etc. There's talk about nvidia ditching this round after only a few shipments because of the shitty yields on this a3 silicon etc.
So ya all that said if I decide to pounce, and if newegg actually has more than a hanfull to sell, I was thinking about regular sli vs tri sli. Reason being is I've been pretty pleased with my 260 tri setup and the tri sli scaling has been suprisingly good. My thoughts were if a 480 is approx 10% faster than a 470 that makes a 470 the much better value and if $350 holds up makes 3 approx the same money as 2 480's. So I'm going to assume 3 470 will handily outperform 2 480's. Power requirements aren't that far from what I'm running now sooooooo.....that's what's leaning me toward tri sli.
Of course there's gonna be people who say scaling of 2 card sli is bad enough and adding a thirs card shows even less diminishing returns and to those people I say try it before you knock it. Its a lot better than you think with nvidias drivers over the last year or so.
Opinions....please.
