OK so I am not a computer geek having said that... I will be building a power system soon, also my first system. I am leaning towards water cooled and in all honesty I am torn between to different GPU's... If water cooled then I will go full watercooled, cpu, gpu and ram. the cards I am looking at will be purchased in pairs with room on MOBO for a third at a later date all slots PCI 2.1.. 1st cardhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102888 2nd cardhttp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814500166 Thoughts and constructive advice much appreciated
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...4130551&cm_re=EVGA_480-_-14-130-551-_-Product If you're going to spend money 480's are insane. Not to mention the SLI scaling is at almost 80% which compared to every generation going back to the 6k series is just amazing. Yea it's going to be loud and it's going to run hot, that isn't a secret to anyone. If you're looking to run 3 monitors from what I've heard Nvidia Surround is fixed and unlike it's ATI counterpart easy to setup. (not to mention you don't need $100 adapters for your monitors) I'm only suggesting EVGA over Zotac because it's EVGA, and let's face it, everyone get's their cards from the exact same place and for the most part they simply resticker them. EVGA has the customer service most enthusiasts dream of. As it stands right now, I'd go for 2x 470's which will out perform a pair of 5870's. For a lot less.
Well if I do go with 480's then I will most likely water cool them as they run really hot and it looks like there may be plenty of room to overclock the hell out of them if you can keep them chilly. Thanks though but the difference in price between the 470 and 480 is small and besides will be cool to run a pair of those and pop a third in down the road.....looks like I will need a 1200w psU though ouch...
Unless you're doing an insane amount of rendering I can't see anything in the foreseeable future that would require 3x 480's, that's a lot of Cuda Cores.
Believe it or not its a business class laptop lol....and no Dash I need it for business lol. Van, yeah I know it will be overkill but come on.....3 liquid cooled 480's tell me that would'nt be cool.
Nah, its an intergrated card so not much pep to it but has let me play anything I wanted up to BcB2 and then no-joy so time to put together a kick ass system so I don't have that issue again. Oh and I can't wait to play on highest settings in Tera.......jiggle jiggle...
By no stretch of the imagination would that be cool, you wouldn't have to turn your heater on in the winter it'd be so hot.