Best bang-for-buck Cards?

[Beastylemon]

I'm building a new comp, and I'm looking for the most bang for buck cards out there.

Right now, I'm considering GTX 560's in SLI. for $400 it towers over the GTX 580 by an average of 20fps.
These cards also scale about 90% in sli.

I am unfamiliar with any ATI cards, are there any better bang for buck SLI/Crossfire solutions?

[_dangtx_]

start with a 6950 so you dont regret it this fall or be pacient :)

[Beastylemon]

would crossfire-ing the 6950's be better?

[Skyllz]

I've had SLI-ed 8800gts
I've had SLI-ed 260GTX
I now have a single 460GTX that I will upgrade for a 6XXGTX when they come out this autumn.

I'll never have SLi-ed cards again. Too much work, works in less then 50% of the games I normally play, required special configuration to get everything out of it.

If I translate that into fps per money spent.
I'd rather have 90% of something 100% of the time with a single 400$ card.
Then 100% of something 50% of the time with 2 X 200$ cards.

[Arinoth]

What resolution do you plan on playing at? How are you at micro-stuttering? Do you realize that 1 560 Tis means you still only have at most 1GB of video card memory (they don't total like some people think)?

[chrisk]

I tend to prefer a single card solution over a multi-card solution. I found my particular setup was testy at times with SLI, and my issues disappeared when I went with one card. For raw performance, yes your proposal will be pretty good but I would rather go with whatever card (ATI or nVidia) that will give you some headroom on the resolution you like to play at.

[_dangtx_]

2 6950's on high resolutions and or multi monitors give a pair of 580's a run for their money :)

[Beastylemon]

I just made a spreadsheet comparing results i found from the guru3d benchmarks.

From these results, i think that the 6870 CF solution gets the most bang for buck out of any config

I play at 1080p resolution btw

EDIT** these prices that i got for the cards are from directcanada dot com.
The card prices are also BOTH of the asus brand.
The only place i buy from cuz they have no tax and free shipping

As you can see, the cards performance starts to become more noticeable once you get into DX11

[_dangtx_]

nein!


anything lower than a 6950 would be fail at your resolution and demands!!!

[Beastylemon]

Do you think that 2GB of GDDR5 is not enough for a 1080p setup?
This is my first time building a setup like this.
I used to run @ 1650*1080 with my 5770 CF, and those cards had 2GB each so i never really thought of that

The benches show 1920x1200, ill be running 1920x1080