Best GTX-580 Model for 550$ USA

[Anonymvs]

THANKS :thumbsup: to :

• happy medium
• TemjinGold
• Hauk
• OCGuy
• blackened23
• AdamK47
• houe
• imaheadcase
• Capt Caveman
• Madcatatlas
• Joseph F
• Grooveriding
• Jhatfie
• Ben90
• ultimatebeast
• Keysplayr (Special thanks)
• stahlhart
• yours truly
• Mrjoltcola
• bryanW1995
• jvroig (Special thanks)
• darckhart
• And others...who answer to the question.

I will definitely go with MSI Lightning!

Hi everyone!

[U][B]I want to know wich GTX-580 Model you will suggest for around 550$ USA[/B][/U]

I want to use it to play games, watching 1080p + 3d movies.
My only screen will be my 46" LCD, maybe i will add later a PC LCD.

My [B]FUTURE [/B]configuration is:
[LIST][B]Motherboard:[/B] ASUS Maximus IV Extreme Z (Waiting to Gen 3) OR Gigabyte G1.Sniper.2[/LIST]
[LIST][B]Processor:[/B] i7 2600k[/LIST]
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[*][B]Cooling systemh[/B] Corsair H100
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[*][B]Graphic Card: [COLOR="red"]Gtx 580 wich model?[/COLOR][/B]
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[*][B]Power Supply:[/B] Enermax Revolution85+ 920W
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[*][B]Memory:[/B] 2 x 4GB G.Skill Ripjaws X F3 - 17000CL9 2133MHz
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[*][B]SSD :[/B] Crucial M4 256GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)
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[*][B]Hard drive:[/B] Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB
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[*][B]Case:[/B] Cool Master HAF 932 advanced (Not sure...but it support corsair H100 and Extended Atx motherboard)
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[happy medium]

MSI gtx580 lightning or the ASUS Matrix are best gtx 580's for about 500$.

I would grab the lightning (easier to sli later).

 

[lehtv]

I sincerely hope you're not going to pay for those components.

• The motherboard is completely overkill
• 2600K is a waste of money for gaming and watching movies
• Corsair H100 is a waste of money, a $35 air cooler will do everything a cooler needs to do
• GTX 580 is a a waste of money. If you want a high performing gaming setup, 560 ti 2GB SLI or 6950 2GB crossfire is much better. And a single 6950 2GB or GTX 570 will play every game fine, you can later upgrade it to a HD7000/GTX600 series card.
• 2133MHz memory is complete waste of money. You will get maybe 1% higher performance than with DDR3-1600.
• What do you need a 256GB SSD for? It would be much more cost effective to use a small 64GB SSD as a cache for a large 1TB hard disk.
• 920W is complete overkill for a GTX 580
• Given that H100 is a waste of money, you don't need a HAF 932. HAF 912 does everything a gaming case needs to do.

And in addition, since this is a FUTURE build... exactly how far in the future are we talking about?

Just my $0.02

 

[TemjinGold]

OP has money and wants expensive parts. Why do you care?

 

[happy medium]

You have a nice build , dont change it if you have the money.
Dont let the jealous guys get you down.

 

[Anonymvs]

I sincerely hope you're not going to pay for those components.

• The motherboard is completely overkill
• 2600K is a waste of money for gaming and watching movies
• Corsair H100 is a waste of money, a $35 air cooler will do everything a cooler needs to do
• GTX 580 is a a waste of money. If you want a high performing gaming setup, 560 ti 2GB SLI or 6950 2GB crossfire is much better. And a single 6950 2GB or GTX 570 will play every game fine, you can later upgrade it to a HD7000/GTX600 series card.
• 2133MHz memory is complete waste of money. You will get maybe 1% higher performance than with DDR3-1600.
• What do you need a 256GB SSD for? It would be much more cost effective to use a small 64GB SSD as a cache for a large 1TB hard disk.
• 920W is complete overkill for a GTX 580
• Given that H100 is a waste of money, you don't need a HAF 932. HAF 912 does everything a gaming case needs to do.

And in addition, since this is a FUTURE build... exactly how far in the future are we talking about?

Just my $0.02[/QUOTE]

But for you'r others question:
Future = some weeks... it's my Christmas gift, from me to me ; )
I always wanted a Huge PC, and something to play at ultra details for 2-3 years.
And for the GTX-580, I want to SLI after [2-3 years : )] that why is my choice.

Anyway I thank you for your concerns...
But, in this thread I don't want to deviate from my principal concern...the GPU

Sorry man... I dont want to be rude ... but you answer to all of the questions...except to my question lol

Wich model did you recommand me for GTX-580 ?

Peace ; )

 

[happy medium]

I sincerely hope you're not going to pay for those components.

• The motherboard is completely overkill
  
  The motherboard is the most important part of any system, whats overkill for you might not be for others.
  
• 2600K is a waste of money for gaming and watching movies
  
  WHen games make use of more than 4 cores it will not be a waste of money
• 
  
  Corsair H100 is a waste of money, a $35 air cooler will do everything a cooler needs to do
  
  Wrong again, If you want a cool and quiet system without the worry of the cooler hitting your high performance ram, this is the best choice
  
  
• GTX 580 is a a waste of money. If you want a high performing gaming setup, 560 ti 2GB SLI or 6950 2GB crossfire is much better. And a single 6950 2GB or GTX 570 will play every game fine, you can later upgrade it to a HD7000/GTX600 series card.
  
  The gtx 580 is the fastest smoothest gaming experience money can buy with no microstutter @ 1900x1080
  
• 2133MHz memory is complete waste of money. You will get maybe 1% higher performance than with DDR3-1600.
  
  WHen the OP wants to upgrade to ivybridge 22nm cpus, he wont have to buy new faster memory
  
• What do you need a 256GB SSD for? It would be much more cost effective to use a small 64GB SSD as a cache for a large 1TB hard disk.
  
  Mabe he wants games on his SSD, I have over 200gb of games on my drive. They will load faster
  
• 920W is complete overkill for a GTX 580
  
  Not if he wants to sli in the future or has a few harddrives added on and/or a overclocked cpu.
  
• Given that H100 is a waste of money, you don't need a HAF 932. HAF 912 does everything a gaming case needs to do.
  
  I bought a ANtec 1200 over 2 years ago and it was exspensive and worth every penny. WHo are you to tell him what kind of case he needs?
  

And in addition, since this is a FUTURE build... exactly how far in the future are we talking about?

Just my $0.02

Keep your .02

 

[Anonymvs]

MSI gtx580 lightning or the ASUS Matrix are best gtx 580's for about 500$.

I would grab the lightning (easier to sli later).

OP has money and wants expensive parts. Why do you care?

You have a nice build , dont change it if you have the money.
Dont let the jealous guys get you down.

Thanks : )

 

[lehtv]

Keep your .02

Are you the OP? No. If you find my post somehow bothers you, you can always report it to the forum moderators. This is a public forum where $0.02's can be expressed within the confines of the rules.

You have a nice build , dont change it if you have the money.
Dont let the jealous guys get you down.

I'm not jealous, and if I gave you that impression, that's hardly my fault.

 

[happy medium]

Thanks : )

Just consider my advice $.03.
It looks like the lightning will win easily.
Good luck.

 

[lehtv]

I always wanted a Huge PC, and something to play at ultra details for 2-3 years.

Just so you know, performance of a gaming PC is determined by the CPU and the GPU. Not by the expensive water cooler, or the expensive motherboard, or the expensive RAM, or the big SSD.

And for the GTX-580, I want to SLI after [2-3 years : )] that why is my choice.

Trust me on this, you won't want to SLI the GTX 580 later. In only a few months, much faster GPUs will be released. In a year from that point on, again much faster GPUs will be released. By the time your current GPU will feel slow, you will be much better off upgrading to newer GPU(s).

Sorry man... I dont want to be rude ... but you answer to all of the questions...except to my question lol

I'm sorry, I can't give you a right answer because I think it's the wrong question.

My intention was to offer you an alternative view, you don't need to go rolling your eyes at me. You can take my advice or you can leave it. I don't think you're being rude, and I didn't intend to be rude either.

As I said, my $0.02.

 

[happy medium]

I'm not jealous, and if I gave you that impression, that's hardly my fault.

I was not talking to you//about you..... why do you get that impression?

Never mind....drop it.

 

[Hauk]

With great case ventillation, my fav non-ref design:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814125379

It's hard to go wrong with reference design, clock to 820 with no voltage tweaks:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130590

 

[lehtv]

@ Happy_Medium, for the record, I won't bother debating you, but I think you're wrong in all of your comments to my recommendations; you don't seem to know a lot about what counts in a PC and what doesn't.

I need to sleep too

I was not talking to you//about you..... why do you get that impression?

It was pretty obvious you referred to me.

 

[happy medium]

I won't bother debating you,

No debate,
the gtx580 is the better card, look at the poll.

 

[lehtv]

No debate,
the gtx580 is the better card, look at the poll.

You're not making any sense

 

[Anonymvs]

With great case ventillation, my fav non-ref design:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814125379

It's hard to go wrong with reference design, clock to 820 with no voltage tweaks:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130590

Thanks for your opinion!

I lost control of this thread lol
I'm trying to regain some control, please guyz help me : )

So for now MSI Lightning is the winner.

 

[OCGuy]

Enjoy the build, dont worry about haters.

 

[blackened23]

msi lightning is by far the best, mine never goes over 64C at 100% load. Its the most consistent and stable oc'er according to the overclock.net nvda database.

 

[blackened23]

I sincerely hope you're not going to pay for those components.

• The motherboard is completely overkill
• 2600K is a waste of money for gaming and watching movies
• Corsair H100 is a waste of money, a $35 air cooler will do everything a cooler needs to do
• GTX 580 is a a waste of money. If you want a high performing gaming setup, 560 ti 2GB SLI or 6950 2GB crossfire is much better. And a single 6950 2GB or GTX 570 will play every game fine, you can later upgrade it to a HD7000/GTX600 series card.
• 2133MHz memory is complete waste of money. You will get maybe 1% higher performance than with DDR3-1600.
• What do you need a 256GB SSD for? It would be much more cost effective to use a small 64GB SSD as a cache for a large 1TB hard disk.
• 920W is complete overkill for a GTX 580
• Given that H100 is a waste of money, you don't need a HAF 932. HAF 912 does everything a gaming case needs to do.

And in addition, since this is a FUTURE build... exactly how far in the future are we talking about?

Just my $0.02

I could understand this but the OP made it clear that budget isn't his concern, he's asking what the best 580 is.

 

[AdamK47]

I sincerely hope you're not going to pay for those components.

• The motherboard is completely overkill
• 2600K is a waste of money for gaming and watching movies
• Corsair H100 is a waste of money, a $35 air cooler will do everything a cooler needs to do
• GTX 580 is a a waste of money. If you want a high performing gaming setup, 560 ti 2GB SLI or 6950 2GB crossfire is much better. And a single 6950 2GB or GTX 570 will play every game fine, you can later upgrade it to a HD7000/GTX600 series card.
• 2133MHz memory is complete waste of money. You will get maybe 1% higher performance than with DDR3-1600.
• What do you need a 256GB SSD for? It would be much more cost effective to use a small 64GB SSD as a cache for a large 1TB hard disk.
• 920W is complete overkill for a GTX 580
• Given that H100 is a waste of money, you don't need a HAF 932. HAF 912 does everything a gaming case needs to do.

And in addition, since this is a FUTURE build... exactly how far in the future are we talking about?

Just my $0.02

I think his build is fine.

I'd hate to see your reaction to what I'm running.

 

[Hauk]

Looks like MSI Lightning is a favorite. It is a great two-slot design, with an excellent power layout, sound, and performance characteristics.

I've smiled at three-slot designs and didn't bother researching the Matrix; but after looking at it's design, I'm impressed. I'd love to apply voltage bumps to this beast. Power consumption is pretty good actually, sips less than reference at idle. If someone has no plans to go SLI, and has three slots available, this thing is a beast.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GeForce_GTX_580_Matrix/images/front.jpg

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GeForce_GTX_580_Matrix/images/cooler3.jpg

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GeForce_GTX_580_Matrix/images/buttons2.jpg

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/ASUS/GeForce_GTX_580_Matrix/25.html

 

[houe]

If you plan to go SLI in the future, which I'm assuming you might be considering with the large power supply, keep in mind those MSI cards have large coolers. In my opinion they should only be run in SLI if they are spaced 3 slots apart. At 2 slots apart the fans might rub on the back of the 2nd card. I didn't research the pcie options for for board so it might not be an issue, but keep it in mind.

 

[lehtv]

I think his build is fine.

How splendid.

I'd hate to see your reaction to what I'm running.

Is the purpose of your rig just gaming? Or are you a hardcore overclocker or benchmarker? Or did you just build it as a status symbol? Or did you build it in order to have it look great?

 

[Anonymvs]

See post #1