Quote Originally Posted by akshayt View Post
Though a SLI 2011 nearly competes with Tri SLI 1155, I wanted to point this out in your favor
This is a fairly insane statement. Even with all the reviews with 2x 680's on socket 2011, aside from raw cpu parallel processing from the difference 12 instead of 8 threads my 3 580's destroy anything reference in a 2way setup graphicly. And not by a small margin. For every 7970/680 review I have read I have re-launched every bench and compared to what their results are for 2 way sli/crossfire. You seem overly caught up with the notion that new generations mean incredible changes. Faster/better yes, but in comparison and on avg my 3 580's sit around the comparative performance of about 2.5 680's in benchmarks. On an 1155 motherboard.

Socket 1155 and 3 way sli has actually been pretty damn nice. I only run into issues tweaking with nvidia inspector/control panel with very elevated levels of gpu driver level added effects. There are a few oddballs of course like skyrim which seems to adore 2011 for various reasons. Even then, a 2011 3way has only ~10-15 fps at best on my 1155 with the same gpus. And that's at numbers way past vsync anyhow so it doesn't matter to me.

You do make one good point. Haswell is due between march and june '13. I may redo the whole rig by the end of next year. <rubs hands together>