Quote Originally Posted by Callsign_Vega View Post
I purchased three of the 3GB cards at Newegg and had to get one from Overclockers UK. Newegg has been out of stock forever now and Overclockers UK sold out all of their Palit and Gainward 3GB cards. I think they might have been a low production run. Don't fret though if the Palit/Gainwards never come back as EVGA will be releasing 3GB 580s here in a month or two if you can wait.

I've played BF:BC2 on one 30" with settings maxed up to 4x AA without hitting vanilla 580 1.5GB limit. You'd really have to push 8x or 16x AA to hit the VRAM limit. Although, in games like Crysis and Metro2033 with just 4x AA you easily hit the limit. 3GB cards are definitely worth it for the breathing room as you know once the VRAM limit is reached, performance plummets.
Yeah I couldn't find them listed anywhere. Good to know EVGA will have some in the future.

Oh that is good to know then, I should be perfectly fine for what I am looking for then. I've never played or seen Metro2033 and don't really play Crysis, I love the Battlefield style too much.

I will see how my performance does, as I love eye candy, but if I don't personally see a difference visually with 4xAA vs 8x or 16x then I'll keep it there.

Quote Originally Posted by skankinred View Post
From all the benchmarks I've seen, even the 570 doesn't have problems @ 2560x1600 and below
BC2:
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Metro2033:
[IMGhttp://www.sdilej.eu/pics/1d15ddced14c9a71a022640d1f64afd4.png[/IMG]

From reading reviews, there isn't any way to visually see a difference beyond 4xAA @ 2560X1600.
Quote Originally Posted by Rollo View Post
One 25X16 panel is 4m pixels, 57X12 is 6.9m pixels, 75% more demand on framebuffer.

The VRAM use in this review shows that 1.5GB would be OK up to 57X12 4X AA in 10 of the 11 games they tested. So, you should be OK up to 8X AA at 25X12 easily.

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com...eatured_Review

In response to both of you, yeah I've seen through some benchmarks/my research that 1 580 can run 2560x1600, but what I am worried about (and it's quite an important point to worry) is minimum frames. Having high FPS means nothing to me if I get some very low minimum drops at random times.

Specifically I have this graph in mind:


As you can see, a single 580 could drop down to 29.5 FPS which in my book is unplayable and not acceptable for a high end gaming machine. 43.8 from the SLI 580's is still very playable, but would still cause some tearing with VSYNC on.