concernedgamer
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I'm new here guys, but not new to pc gaming. I also work with 3D modeling/animating among a few other things. I'm having a REALLY hard time trying to figure out which one to get. It's income tax season and I'm willing to spend $1k total on a graphics card or two and not have to upgrade for another 2-3 years, depending on how demanding games become. I've read SO MANY benchmark forums/articles etc. and the performance per dollar does not deter me from the GTX TITAN. I have an EVGA GTX 580 and game on both my Asus VH238H Black 23" monitor and SONY HX800 240hz 3DLEDTV. The ASUS GTX 680 TOP card was my initial choice until they announced the TITAN and saw benchmarks. My problem is that the GTX 680 TOP card does not come with 4gb. 2x 680's beat out the 690, but an overclocked TITAN can match the 690 as well. I'm not interested in getting an AMD card. I know all about them. Just want all the bells and whistles Nvidia offers (not trying to upset anyone ). With new generation of consoles, game developers WILL push pc graphics further, because multiplat consoles will be easier to develop on. Therefore have more time to polish and what not. There will be higher resolution textures like "Rage". (Better optimized hopefully). We've talked about this during my game animation classes. 2gb vram will not be enough. We are accelerating greatly in technology. And YES, this generation of consoles did hold back the advancement. I just want to know what you guys think. I really don't want to do SLI and be stuck at 2gb of vram after spending $1k. The TITAN is a 6gb card which is overkill x2, but that's why it cost $999. I will upgrade to a higher resolution monitor as well in the future. So should I go with GTX 680 DIRECTCU II TOP (MAYBE SLI), GTX 690, OR GTX TITAN?
Specs:
Asus VH238H Black 23"
i7 2600k 4.8ghz
ZALMAN CNPS9700
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12
ASUS 24X DVD Burner
EVGA GeForce GTX 580 1536MB @ 885 / 2088mhz
KINGWIN Mach 1 ABT-1000MA1S
Antec Twelve Hundred V3
CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB 1600
ASUS P8P67 EVO (REV 3.0) LGA 1155
Specs:
Asus VH238H Black 23"
i7 2600k 4.8ghz
ZALMAN CNPS9700
Seagate Barracuda 7200.12
ASUS 24X DVD Burner
EVGA GeForce GTX 580 1536MB @ 885 / 2088mhz
KINGWIN Mach 1 ABT-1000MA1S
Antec Twelve Hundred V3
CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB 1600
ASUS P8P67 EVO (REV 3.0) LGA 1155