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7/30/12 at 8:58am

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now the challenge is going to be finding one of these "ROG expanders" that add 4x SLI capabilities to the Rampage 3 Extreme, wish me luck lol

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thanks everyone!

what do you think about getting dual: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127695

also how would the performance of one or two of those compare to my current 3x GTX 470s?

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8/1/12 at 3:42am

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Man 2 of those would blow the 470s out of the water.

Oh, and if it helps, my friend is running tri-SLI 670s (should probably run similar to 680s) on his i7-920. We tried running both SLI and tri-SLI, definitely only felt the bottleneck at 3 cards. 2 ran completely fine.

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they looks like great cards, fast stock, cool and quiet. I'm looking at going with a multiple monitor setup (hopefully 3d vision works with 3 screens) and the extra vram should really pay off. hopefully the i7 970 with a wild overclock will be enough to compensate for any potential bottleneck

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8/1/12 at 3:47am

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Quote:

Originally Posted by tha d0ctor

thanks everyone!
what do you think about getting dual: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127695
also how would the performance of one or two of those compare to my current 3x GTX 470s?

1- GTX 680s are faster than the 470s. Especially if the 470s are stock.
I guess 3x GTX 470s = 2x 580s ?

2- 2x 470 = are slightly slower than a GTX 680
I guess 2x 680s will be 30%+ better than 3x 470s.

2x 470s vs 670.
http://www.overclock.net/t/1256780/brettjvs-470-sli-vs-670-bench-off-both-ocd-now-with-7970-ocd

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well if those 2x gtx 470s are slightly slower than a gtx 670 (most likely the 2gb model) than the 2x gtx 680s should be a lot faster than 3x gtx 470s becuase the 3rd card simply didn't scale well and the higher levels of VRAM should make a huge difference especially if I go with 3x displays

thanks! good find on that bench btw

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I'm Active Army with the 82nd Airborne Division. We'll be back from Afghanistan by the end of the month or so and then its time to make up for some lost in the computer gaming world lol

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Man 2 of those would blow the 470s out of the water.
Oh, and if it helps, my friend is running tri-SLI 670s (should probably run similar to 680s) on his i7-920. We tried running both SLI and tri-SLI, definitely only felt the bottleneck at 3 cards. 2 ran completely fine.

Interesting, I did a lot of benchmarking on mine and mine showed about a 7% bottleneck on some games that were more gpu demanding on my i7 920 @ 4ghz.

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You may want at least a 64gb boot drive .

This.

In terms of real life performance I saw the biggest boost in speed when I switched from an HDD to SDD. At least, holding all other parts constant. XD

But no, I agree with everyone else, the 970 shouldn't bottleneck a beastly setup like a GTX 690 or 680s in SLI.

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