The GT300/Fermi Thread - Part 2!

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As long we keep getting crap ports (again for gaming), yes, I had 285's on 3-way and temps were awful in gaming session's I had to put it at 100% to have <85, I sold it and got myself an 5870 which is enough for anything right now even for eyefinity and for power consumption is probably is not going to be less than ATi 5000 thats for sure everyone knows that already I guess...

I don't fully agree here. This is a very subjective thing to say as it depends on your framerate demands, image quality settings and last but not surely not least, resolution. At 1920x1200, I find myself wanting more than what a single 5870 can offer (I like to have above 60fps at all times if possible with 4x AA / 16AF for single player games, and even more online ; again subjective and NO a 5870 cannot do this let alone a 5970 in some cases ). If a GTX 480 can meet that demand, I am all for it ( given a reasonable cooling solution ) I'd sooner pay $700 for a single card that is 10-15% slower than a 5970 but that is just me. Multi gpu solutions should be a last resort in my opinion ( an educated opinion at that as I've personally used 5 different multi gpu configs / cards in the past few years ; I'm speaking of the pitfuls and issues that have always plauged these solutions ; driver problems, power usage , noise, heat, low performance increase relative to price )