Did you grab a couple of these Don? Six more posts and you're Platinum.. not that you're trying or anything..
I'd save a little money, sell my 680, and grab one of these, if only it had the VGA Hotwire built in. No easy mods for ju
If you pay full price for a USED card when a BRAND NEW ONE WITH WARRANTY can be had for the same price LOL I would feel sorry for that chap honestly my lord it's not like these cards are in short supply. Edit when the 7850 comes down to $220 retail it will be the obvious choice even though the 480 is the faster card.
How many newer games can a GTX 680 maintain a steady & consistent 120Hz FPS in @ 2560 reso ?
Don, the Catleap has close to twice as many pixels as a 1080p display. That's twice as much gaming goodness. Even your GTX 680s in SLI can't peg many games at 120fps at 1440p resolution. In fact, in most games like Crysis 2 you will be at or near 60fps which is ideal IMO. Your system will be balanced.
IMO you would need quad SLI to fully drive all modern games maxed out at 1440p with AA.
Tri and Quad SLI/CF are a supreme waste of money IMO. I think the forth card will never get even close to being pegged even the third card will never get pegged @ 100%. My rational is that if I am paying 100% for a product I will want to be using said product at 100% of it full intended potential that I payed dearly for if I were to buy into tri or quad SLI/CF but I never will. I am a big advocate of 2 way SLI & CF though because the scaling is getting better and better nearing 100% with these new cards in many newer games.
Personally I have had an overall great experience with CF and SLI scaling since I started using this technology back in 2009 with my first dual card rig which consisted of 2x Ati Radeon HD 4890 in Crossfire. My personal logic is the same for Video Cards, CPUs, Games & most other PC tech and items which is as follows. I always buy last generations values at discounted prices because they are cheaper and all or most of the bugs have been worked out of them. Same goes for games I only by them when they have those great Steam sales and after the game has launched and the Patches/Drivers have worked out all or most of the game breaking bugs & "SLI/CF profiles" have been added ect. I used to buy the best GPUs on launch day but then I learned that it is not really the best approach when it's the games that one plays most often that should be the determiner of a graphical card and or other hardware upgrade not just because it the "New Shiny" I try and apply this logic to other areas of life as well
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