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post #51 of 186
4/29/12 at 3:01am
Maybe they are trying to shock us with the price so that when they releases it @ 800 or so people will think its a good price.

Its kind of like how some kids would tell there parents they got an F then telling them it was actually a C or D.
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post #52 of 186
4/29/12 at 3:07am
When it'll be up for sale?
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post #53 of 186
4/29/12 at 3:10am
Thursday apparently though its stated that it will be before 5th of may.
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post #54 of 186
4/29/12 at 3:24am
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Any idea of the power supply requirements for two GTX 690s in Quad-SLI with a 3930K? Will a Corsair AX850 work?

I would have to say no

For quad-SLI GTX590's a 1kw PSU would be a safer option
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4/29/12 at 3:50am
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I'd still much rather have 2 680's instead of this card. Honestly though any resolution 1920x1200 or below only needs 1 680.
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4/29/12 at 4:05am
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Same price as SLI 680's. What's the advantage?

Correct me if I'm wrong but because you are not running conventional SLI wont that effectively kill stuttering? If the GTX 690 performs extremely close to two separate 680 cards (within 5-10%) I can not think of any pros or cons either way...!
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4/29/12 at 4:24am
Pros have been listed numerous times: one card instead of two, much more powerful when SLI'd, only need 2 PCIe slots instead of 4 for quad-SLI, more energy efficient, less heat, quieter, only one water-block for water-cooling.

Cons would probably be it is at least 5-10% slower than 2 separate 680s, and probably won't overclock as high.
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post #58 of 186
4/29/12 at 7:37am
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You're really only talking about the top 3-5% of high-end PC gamers that have an actual legitimate need for *this* card anyways, and of those 3-5% of gamers I would imagine a sizable percentage have already invested in a surround gaming setup (or are planning on making the jump once they pick up a card in this price/performance range). Obviously I can't speak for anyone other than myself, but as a person that games on three monitors, the lack of VRAM on the card means it won't even be considered when I decide to upgrade my cards to the 6 series cards. It seems silly to release a card like this, which, as we all know already has a very niche market, and then narrow the size of your market even more by reducing its capabilities and or number of applications.
Honestly, I don't understand it, but I think it has more to do with the fact that they wanted to keep the price *under* 1000 USD. Adding that extra digit can impact sales quite a bit.

This. 2gb of vram on a thousand dollar card is absurd. This is a dual GPU monster that screams for use in multi-monitor setups, but the vram limitation chops it off at the knees.
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4/29/12 at 7:52am
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Correct me if I'm wrong but because you are not running conventional SLI wont that effectively kill stuttering? If the GTX 690 performs extremely close to two separate 680 cards (within 5-10%) I can not think of any pros or cons either way...!

It is convectional sli, It's just internal. IMHO Micro stutter is a thing of the past. Once you started seeing bandwidth @160GB/s >
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4/29/12 at 7:55am
No reason to buy this over two 680s with that price. I mean I suppose it'd be easier to go quad with two 690s then 4 680s but if your cheaping out on the mobo like that it's probabally not a good idea anyway. I can't imagine this thing is going to really cost a grand.

I will say though it's pretty awesome it ships with a 10phase VRm design rather then the garbage 4 phase the 680 ships with. Maybe OCing on this thing will actually be good.
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