Behold the GTX 680!

[BoyBettaKnow]

Ah, lucky you! As far as my knowledge goes we don't have any PC hardware shops in the south west. I think I'll order the plait from Scan. £429 all in but it seems like that's what it'll have to be


Edit: any idea what would be a fair starting price for a HD5870 on eBay I may put both of mine on there to fund another purchase


BBK Tapatalking'

[Varsh]

Well I've now found the perfect setup for my GTX680 4GB when I eventually get it when it's released. Behold this for £500:

[keefy]

OOh ge tthe VAT back.

I am waiting until a manufacturer makes a screen that is 5760 x 1080 the monitor borders would annoy me.

[BoyBettaKnow]

Well I've now found the perfect setup for my GTX680 4GB when I eventually get it when it's released. Behold this for £500:

That's a fucking steal :O for £500 I can't fault that. I wouldn't mind buying that and using my current 120hz screen as an analogue screen on top.

When is the 4Gb launching and for how much?


BBK Tapatalking'

[Varsh]

Well the 4GB has only just been shown on the EVGA site so I'd assume this'll come in a couple months time. The monitor deal is going on till the 7th May so plenty of time still to get it.

[itachi73378]

I've always found the EVGA cards to be very bland in aesthetics. Asus and Galaxy cards are pretty badass looking

[Varsh]

I wouldn't care if it looked like My Little Pony, it's buried in my case out of sight.

[BoyBettaKnow]

Ah right, not sure i can be bothered to wait that long and find out it would be more than i'd want to pay (> £600). I didn't order mine today and it seems Overclockers got a bit more in stock during the day and i'm now gonna wait for them to get the EVGA one back in stock

I wouldn't care if it looked like My Little Pony, it's buried in my case out of sight.

I'd buy a card specifically for the reason of it looking like that

[itachi73378]

I wouldn't care if it looked like My Little Pony, it's buried in my case out of sight.

Oh ofcourse. I can't think of a person who just buy a card for aesthetics. Its just something I had noticed.

[keefy]

Gainward are always overpriced, about 2 yeas I go I saw a 6800 golden sample for sale in microdirect for £300.

[Morganator]

Function over form though form should come aesthetically pleasing nonetheless. I wonder if Nvidia is releasing their own line of Gigahertz edition cards like AMD did with the 7950.

[Varsh]

Well BBK, Overclockers have just announced today the first 4GB 680's by Palit arriving next week. They're overclocked and have custom coolers too all for £540!

[BoyBettaKnow]

Ooph - £540. Only £70 than i was willing to pay buy 540 sounds like such a bigger number lol. Wouldn't mind waiting to see the benchmarks on that because i'm only going to be playing 1920x1080 for a while with it.

edit: Not keen on Palit either really - was doing a bit of research and it seems for RMA's they are a bit of a pain in the ass.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/sho...php?t=18231329

Edit 2: Yeah i think i'm just gonna stick with the 2gb Super Overclocked version for the time being. I don't think i'd be able to sleep at night if i bought the 4gb card for more than you can get 3 monitors for

[Varsh]

Well Gainward are bringing their lineup to Overclockers next week too, not sure which cards they'll be though. And I'll be going triple screen - most likely won't have any 3D on them though because it's for TriDef but it's the 120Hz and NV Surround that I'll drool at.

[BoyBettaKnow]

I do plan on getting 3 monitors not sure if i'll just buy 2 more of the ones i currently use (120Hz, 1920x1080 2ms G2G Asus VG236HE) or just buy the 3 that you posted and use my current one as a back up or a lone one for the desktop. I may just end up going SLI when that happens though.


I hate you Varsh, you've thrown far too many spanners in the works

[Varsh]

Oh how I love to entice thee with many questions and no solutions!

[BoyBettaKnow]

More and more cards appearing. Gainwards Phantom Series looks quite nice. The longer the card i want stays out of stock the more i keep seeing others i want

[Nuvian]

Will be interesting to see the benchmarks on those 4gb versions.

[itachi73378]

Will be interesting to see the benchmarks on those 4gb versions.

It will only matter while running multiple moniters or 3d gaming on high resolutions

[brebaz]

If i get the Samsung 27SA750D (120hz) I'll be getting my self one for sure. I'm still on 22" 1680x1050 IPS monitor and there's nothing wrong with it so far.

I need a SC EVGA one that's for sure.

[gangsta_795]

BBK and Varsh, you guys will be purchasing the 680?

[Morganator]

I think I will wait for a price drop on these. I'm not paying more than $400 for any individual card and for my next computer build - which I have planned for when the Crosshair VI and AM4 arrive - I want to have four graphics cards stuffed into my machine. I'm already designing my own custom case.

[gangsta_795]

I think I will wait for a price drop on these. I'm not paying more than $400 for any individual card and for my next computer build - which I have planned for when the Crosshair VI and AM4 arrive - I want to have four graphics cards stuffed into my machine. I'm already designing my own custom case.

That's some pretty heavy stuff but tbh I don't see AM4 coming anytime soon. And not to sound close minded or something, but unless AM4 is a HUGE upgrade over AM3+ (which, btw is shitty for gaming), don't see why you would want AMD.

[John25]

That's some pretty heavy stuff but tbh I don't see AM4 coming anytime soon. And not to sound close minded or something, but unless AM4 is a HUGE upgrade over AM3+ (which, btw is shitty for gaming), don't see why you would want AMD.

How so ??

[Morganator]

That's some pretty heavy stuff but tbh I don't see AM4 coming anytime soon. And not to sound close minded or something, but unless AM4 is a HUGE upgrade over AM3+ (which, btw is shitty for gaming), don't see why you would want AMD.

I'm pretty sure AM4 will be a huge upgrade over AM3+. I don't see it coming out this year but perhaps, maybe sometime in early 2013. Either way, it gives me time to continue designing my custom case. As for why I choose AMD over Intel? It's because I like AMD's physical CPU architecture more and the price to performance ratio surpasses that of Intel. Intel is too expensive for what it offers.