We could always use more speed.
I've been recently getting up to date on my drivers and settings for my video card, since I now got a 3d monitor and glasses.
I found it's not as quite as turn key as I was expecting.
I did get some of my games to use aa and at an alright speed.
That aa flag setting seems to me somewhat of a hack type of thing, it's setup in methods I guess.
For example I'm using the value 0x000012C1 on dead island, works good enough but has some glitchy transparent lines in some places of the game.
Some aa flag's slow the game down alot, some not so much.
3d without aa sometimes is good speed, other times poor.
From what I've heard the same can go with sli, with it's compatibility flag setting for each game.
I still need to try clocking my cpu up and my vga card to see what effects it has on speed when it's needs it.
It's kinda surprising but there are games that can hit the 680 hard if you push it.
If you want 1080p or higher res, with 3d and or aa, the more the speed the better.
From what I can tell, the 680 might be enough to do all that at 1080p, 3d plus aa, only if every single setting is perfect for every game you run across essentially.
Honestly, my opinion at the "moment", 2way sli 680's(maybe 670's) or a 690 may be the way to go if you need 3d, or higher res then 1080(like 1440 or 1600).
It's just might be easier to get the performance you need without as much hassle.
That is if you can get each game or app you need to work with sli correctly (again supposedly needs some fiddling on it's own).
An even faster card then the 680...
That would be cool.
But I just bought this one not that long ago, the 680.
If I buy another vga card anytime soon, it would be for sli and that would be it.
As for card's past say the $600 mark.
I'de be willing to pay an extra $100 on top of the avg price of the high end cards for a quadro.
I like quadro's.
Also it would be nice to see passive 3d(full sbs, dual projector/clone mode).
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Originally Posted by Hell Hound
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