SLi 690's - should I or not
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Iroquois Pliskin
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SLI GTX 690 sounds nice, presented with the choice - I would pull it. : D
There should be no bottlenecks even with current generation Intel processors, refer to - http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphics/41581-nvidia-geforce-gtx-690-sli-surround/
At 3DMark 11 performance setting, which runs at a lower resolution and quality, the SLI 690 scale to 34%, meaning the CPU is the bottleneck here. Extreme setting brings the difference between one GPU and a SLI config to 74%.
Another review - http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/graphics/display/geforce-gtx-690-sli.html You can see CPU-limited games with lots of AI form a distance in the charts.
An i7-3770K at 4.5 GHz would probably show a consistent SLI scaling of 50-80% in all games.
There should be no bottlenecks even with current generation Intel processors, refer to - http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/graphics/41581-nvidia-geforce-gtx-690-sli-surround/
At 3DMark 11 performance setting, which runs at a lower resolution and quality, the SLI 690 scale to 34%, meaning the CPU is the bottleneck here. Extreme setting brings the difference between one GPU and a SLI config to 74%.
Another review - http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/graphics/display/geforce-gtx-690-sli.html You can see CPU-limited games with lots of AI form a distance in the charts.
An i7-3770K at 4.5 GHz would probably show a consistent SLI scaling of 50-80% in all games.
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I was going to get a i7-3930k OC to 4.6GHz to accompany them, still thinking of whether to SLi or not, some people notice big improvements while some only notice small improvements, I will EVENTUALLY be using a 3 monitor setup, as of now it will be a 2 monitor setup.