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SLI or single card?

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Nexrus

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Hello,

I'm going to be upgrading my video card very soon. My budget is around $250.00. Doing a little research it seems the best card for that price is the GeForce GTX 660 Ti.

However, I'm wondering if it will be more productive to SLI my current card (GeForce GTX 560 Ti)

The price difference would be huge but I'm curious what I would get the most performance from.

Also, my current PSU is 650W Corsair. I don't have a lot of hardware pulling juice from it (HDD, CD-ROM, and 3X 120mm fans) so I'm guessing it should be enough?

Thanks
 
well first off you need to list all of your other specs including the resolution you want to play at. 560ti sli would be slightly faster but 1gb of vram is not going to cut it so a single gtx660ti makes more sense.
 
Thanks for the reply. Sorry I didn't realize you would need them.

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yes specs always need to be listed as we have no idea if your pc is worthy of n upgrade. you could have had a lower end core 2 duo and 2gb of system for all we knew. that said your pc looks pretty good but you did not list your resolution though. I will assume its 1920x1080 or at worst 1680x1050 so either way selling the 560ti and getting a 660ti makes the most overall sense.
 
The advice is much appreciated.

I manged to find a couple other threds on different forums, and people seem to be suggesting the same as you.

Was I right in that the best card I can find in that price range is the 660Ti?

Thanks
 
rive22 said:
My cousin just picked up one of these, the little thing has got some guts

http://www.amazon.com/MSI-GeForce-G...qid=1369702414&sr=8-5&keywords=msi+gtx+660+ti
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that is the exact card that I have but it was only 230 bucks when I bought so so I got lucky plus I sold AC 3 that came with it. it is SUPER quiet and runs really cool even when oced by 10% never hitting 70 C even in demanding games. my core does not oc that good though as just over 1200 is the highest boost that is stable. the memory did go to almost 7400 though. of course I run everything much lower than that but I did want to know what the card was capable of.
 
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Nexrus said:
The advice is much appreciated.

I manged to find a couple other threds on different forums, and people seem to be suggesting the same as you.

Was I right in that the best card I can find in that price range is the 660Ti?

Thanks
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lol you still never mentioned your resolution.

yes a 660ti is decent card for the money and also the slowest I would go with coming from a 560ti. the 760 ti will be out next month though and looks to be just a rebadged 670. so I would wait a few weeks to see what happens with that if you can.
 
Depend what of kind you are going to play. Usually sli aren't that optimize for every game. I had a sli setup and i doubt it was worth the extra fps for that. You save the money from the 2nd card and buy a brand new one 2 or 3 years after. Especially with all the new generation and DX version.

Sli do seems cool but I barely see the point if the game you will be playing don't get the great advantage of SLI than don't bother :).

+1 for 660, the 760 is remodel of 670, not much changed imo. Better for the 8xx gen, bigger difference, anyways. Good luck.
 
Honestly I personally would sell the GTX 560 ti for some cash and use the difference to get a GTX 760 ti since it is rumored to have the same specs as the GTX 670, but costs roughly 300 dollars if you wanted to wait when it was released. If not, I mean the GTX 660 ti is pretty decent to so is the 7950 if you were into AMD which is great cost to performance ratio.
 
Pay extra and get the GTX 670 if you're sticking with NVIDIA. Otherwise, the 7950 would be better bang-for-buck.
 
narupls said:
Honestly I personally would sell the GTX 560 ti for some cash and use the difference to get a GTX 760 ti since it is rumored to have the same specs as the GTX 670, but costs roughly 300 dollars if you wanted to wait when it was released. If not, I mean the GTX 660 ti is pretty decent to so is the 7950 if you were into AMD which is great cost to performance ratio.
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+1.. totally agree.. the next 760TI will have the specs of a 670 being slightly faster than a 670.. so the choise for me to go its wait for a 760ti.
 
Araxie said:
+1.. totally agree.. the next 760TI will have the specs of a 670 being slightly faster than a 670.. so the choise for me to go its wait for a 760ti.
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Yeah I was assuming with the rumors it should be same specced as a GTX 670 maybe even a little bit faster. Wish there was more info on it though, but I think if you were gonna go the Nvidia route maybe the OP should just wait it out, but who knows.
 
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