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so im gonna get a gtx 690 and no i dont want to buy a diffrent card and no dont tell me that it isnt worth it but because the gpus with my 3200g only run at 8x speed will i still be able to run my gtx 690 in sli mode because sli wont work if the cards are in 4x speed if using normal sli

Okay. I'm out of ideas, so maybe someone here can help me. I'm helping my brother build a pc, and here's the issue we're having. His GPU is a nvidia GTX 690. We just go a new mobo and cpu for him. It's a MSI Z390a- pro and a core i7-9700f. The problem is, when we connect via the GPU, all the bells and whistles start but the system refuses to post. We see a black screen with a blinking underscore before the underscore stops and moves to somewhat the middle of the screen and stops blinking. We get a solid white VGA error light on the mobo. We've tried looking up troubleshooting problems and a lot of the issue we see with the mobo is that it only posts with HDMI. thankfully, I had some old amd 5700 GPUs with HMDI outputs. Plug that in instead and BOOM the system posts. I installed windows, updated the bios, got all the other drivers installed and it's fine. Everything works, but the system refuses to boot when we plug in is gtx 690 GPU, we get the same error light and black screen. It's only booting up when I put in my old and 5700 and not just the HDMI port, it boots in the DVI too. The GTX 690 GPU is not new and was just working in his old pc which was a old as shit dell server mobo... don't ask me what it was, I have no idea. For some reason it's unable to work on this new mobo. I'm open tk suggestions.

2 instances of SLI in 1 system Ok so 2 part question, The set up I have 2 GTX 690’s in SLI and dual monitors. For anyone who doesn’t know, yes quad SLI is not a good idea. Pretty much no games use all 4 and the recommended settings from Nvidia’s drivers are to run the cards is 3 way SLI with the 4th GPU on PhysX duty. Nothing more frustrating that having horsepower in your pc and not being able to use it. In my defense when the system was commissioned 5 ish years ago I didn’t know much about computers or system building yet. I had more money than brains. So the first question is practical I was wondering if I could run my 690’s in independent SLI’s of each other. So simply I would run one monitor off one physical card running its internal SLI and the second monitor running off the other card. So I’d have 2 sli’s in the same system, one for each monitor. I wouldn’t expect this to gain anything’s by doing this really but at the same time I don’t think I wouldn’t lose much either. And probably wouldn’t change it up but it would be cool to know if it’s possible The next question is theory. If that works then technically could you run say 4 GTX 1080’s (or any other card really) in 2 x 2 SLI config on two monitors, or one of those monitors that is 2 panels in one (Like some of the high refresh rate 4k monitors. Can’t find the product pages). Or a better example would be a combination of those two videos Linus did about 8 gamers 1 CPU and the holy $h!t episode where he hooked up 4, 4k monitors to make an 8k setup. Use 8 GPU’s in a 4 x 2 config. Would that work? I haven’t been able to find this information online yet so any insight would be great. (also just thought of this today so haven’t had a chance to see what happens on my PC) Thanks,

Hi everyone, Ok, so this video by TechYesCity has raised some questions about the GTX 690 4-way SLI configuration. Since that there is X2 GPUs on one PCB, there is 2GB of VRAM shared between them, with the diffuculty of some bent pins in the 2nd GPU slot that prevented the 4-way SLI setup, if there are two "physical" GPUs running 4-way SLI (X2 GPUs per physical card each sharing 2GB of VRAM), how much VRAM is available in total?

Okay I got 2 GTX 690's and an original Titan 6Gb for free, which of these would be the better setup (I'm guessing the 690's but idk). I am going to be using it to build my girlfriend a pc that can run PUBG (she recently moved in, never had played on a pc before, now she's addicted to PUBG lmao). So do you guys think either of these GPU setups would run PUBG and current games? Thanks, Cheers! PS: The GPU's I got from two complete systems given to me for free, so on top of the GPU's I got a 4930k, a 3930k, 32Gb (8x4gb sticks) of Corsair Dom's, 32Gb (4x8gb sticks) of Corsair Vengeance, two AX1200i PSU's, a 1TB Samsung 840 Pro SSD, a 240Gb Corsair SSD, 2 2TB HDD's, a Corsair Case and a Lian Li case (both cases are in pretty crappy shape). But hell yeah i thought it was a great find for free!!!!

Hello, I've started playing PUBG and I found that my R7 250X can't handle it very well. (50 fps with everything on very low, some config settings and max OC on GPU - massive FPS drops - 5-10 fps when I jump from plane) Now I don't have money for a new video card so I want to buy an used one. My options are GTX 690 (as far as I know, this one should be the best because is basically 2x 680), GTX 780TI and GTX 970. Cheapest one that I can find is GTX 690 (almost 50% lower than the rest) then GTX 970 and after that 780TI. What should I chose for an upgrade? System: MB: ASRock B85M Pro3 CPU: i3-4170 3.7 GHz GPU: Radeon R7 250X Club PokerEdition 1GB RAM: 2x 4GB HyperX Savage 1600MHz CL9 HDD: Seagate Desktop HDD 1TB 7200RPM 64MB SATA-III PSU: Segotep SG-500A

Hello world, I was wondering whether or not a 600-watt PSU is sufficient enough to power a gtx 690. I look forward to your response thank you and have a splendid day :p.

Hey All, Hopefully I am not going to get scolded too badly for this one but I've recently purchased myself an nVidia GTX 690 and I absolutely freaking love the look of this card! I am having some trouble in figuring out what CPU is going to "not bottleneck" this GPU. Currently, I am running it with an AMD Phenom II X6 1045T @ 2.70 GHz however it is in a rather generic and bad quality motherboard (Asrock N68-S3 UCC) and I was wondering should I spend the money and upgrade to an i5 8400 with the Gigabyte B360M HD3 Motherboard & 32GB RAM (which I know is going to be overkill) or should I just stick with this CPU and just upgrade to a decent mobo for it ? (eg MSI 990FXA). Please be gentle guys! I can't help my obsession with these old cards! Would love to get 100% out of it though! Thanks!

I recently got a GTX 690 video card for free and was wondering how to build the cheapest pc gaming computer with it. I heard people buy cheap Dell optiplexes and just put a video card in it, but I'm not sure which one is most suitable with this video card. Budget wise I am thinking 150 dollars or less, What would be my best approach/what should I get ? (budget price excludes video card, monitor/keyboardetc. because I already have that ))

Hey guys i'm planning on getting a second hand gtx 690 for 118 dollars and i'm just gonna buy it as a temporary gpu and I was wondering on how much power draw does it get on load? I have a Seasonic M12II eVO 620W 80 bronze and i was wondering if it could handle the 690 since it is considered as an SLI gpu? Thanks guys!

Can someone explain to me why my new Asus 1070 Strix OC apparently SUCKS at surround? I am running 3840x1024 and Borderlands 2 runs at like 10FPS. The 1070 is a replacement for my GTX 690, which ran BL2 in 3840x1024 like a breeze, easily maintaing 50-60FPS. What gives?

With 3 and 4 way SLI being kicked to the curb by Nvidia, and SLI connectors absent from the 1060, Is Titan Z the last dual GPU card? I love my GTX 690, but it's getting way old now, and the Titan Z is still way beyond my budgetary reach. Opinions on dual GPU cards? AMD "X2" cards are usually dual GPU as well. Do we think both red and green teams are leaving dual GPU cards in the past?

Hello LTT Forum, Im maybe getting a Gigabyte GTX 690 I only got a 520w 80+Bronze powersupply from Seasonic, is that enough to Power it ? Im also running a i5 4460 With stock cooling, 2 hdds and 3 casefans, and im using a cheap msi motherboard. My PSU has 2x 8 Pin connectors Oh and can i still enable both GPUs even though my mobo doesnt Support SLI ?

So, my GTX 690 finally got replaced by a 1070 (Strix OC), but I'm keeping the 690. I'm dubious about using an SLI card for PhysX because the necessity of a PhysX card is so low and because it's SLI. I know I can turn SLI off for the card, and maybe just use one of the 2 GPUs on it for PhysX, but then what does my 3rd GPU do? My PSU has plenty of overhead to run the hardware, but what can I actually do with it? Does having a second card degrade the performance of the primary card just by taking up PCI lanes on the mobo (mine is ASUS P8Z77-V LK) even if it's not being used to render? If I dedicated both of the 690 GPUs to Folding@home or something while gaming on the 1070, would I see a performance loss in game? Really, I'm just looking for something to do with the 690 in the same rig as the 1070 and I welcome any suggestions and advice. Thanks for reading!

I have, placed physically from left to right: NAGA-II 1680x1050 20" - Playstation3D Display 1920x1080 24" - NAGA 1680 x 1050 20" I am not trying to run the PS3D Display in 3D, just 2D. I only use it for 3D with my PS3 on the other HDMI input. All monitors are on my GTX 690 connected via DVI and the miniDisplayport is open. System info: P8Z77V-LK MoBo 16GB RAM i7-2600K GTX 690 - Monitors GTX 550Ti - Dedicated PhysX (no displays) Win10 x64 Pro Currently, I am stuck with 3840x1024. This seems to be a remnant from when the leftmost display was a 1280x1024 Dell thing. I want the resolutionz! Can you help? Is it possible to run surround at these resolutions: 5280x1050 5040x1050 Or anything higher than the 3840x1024 I seem to be stuck with. Thanks for reading and any advice or help in advance!!! I am also curious to know if I should be using the displayport output so all monitors are on the same GPU. Currently I have this: (Yes, the NagaII is physically swapped on my desk with the Naga but that shouldn't matter.) Should I get a mini-Displayport to DVI adapter for the monitor currently connected to DVI on GPU B and connect it to mini-Displayport on GPU A? Will this result in any performance &/ surround resolution increase to more than 1024 lines? If I should consolidate monitors to a single GPU, do I need to pay more than $10 for an adapter? Or should I get a mini-Displayport to HDMI adapter and connect the PS3DD that way and put the nagas on DVI? Does it matter in terms of performance which connectors im using to which monitors? Educate me, please people. This has been suggested as explanation by a friend: " Because your PS3 display is wider than the Nagas, but not much taller (in terms of lines of resolution), you are limited to the common aspect ratios they can all support in denominations of 5:4(x3) because it has to render the full resolution in equal lines (size of the monitor not mattering) or else it would be rendering multiple streams of different sizes which those cards are not designed to do. " Is this what I'm dealing with? Without swapping the nagas for two 24" 1080p panels, or the PS3DD for another 1050 panel, am I stuck at 1024? the only thing I don't follow in that logic is the "common aspect ratios" part. See here: If I add any other monitors in the future, they will be auxiliary and run by either the MoBo Intel GPU or possibly the 550Ti. I have also used Android apps to allow a tablet or phone to be used as an additional display on a PC, but this would likely NOT be recommended for use as a gaming or fast-response monitor. Probably not even for video playback unless the audio were routed to the device's speakers to sync with the video. /Sidetrack Anyway, do my connections questions make sense and does anyone have answers? Thanks for reading!

So, how do dual GPU cards (GTX 5/690s, Titan Zs, Radeon X2s) figure into this equation? If my CPU supports at least 32 lanes, and my board has at least two 16x slots, can I theoretically run two Titan Zs in quad SLI across 2 slots and have both cards running at 16x? Question prompted by watching this video:

Hello everyone, I just installed the latest driver from nvidia and noticed the game ready profile for Dark Souls III. I'm a huge Dark Souls II fan and I'm looking foreward to play Dark Souls III of course. So it says an i7 3770 and a GTX 970 are the recommended hardware for DS3. http://www.geforce.com/whats-new/articles/from-software-recommends-the-geforce-gtx-970-for-dark-souls-iii In my rig there is and i7 3930K @ 4GHz and a GTX 690 2x2GB. My main rig has an i7 4790K @ 4.7GHz and a GTX 980 Ti which is pretty much overkill for that game. I wonder if I can play DS3 at max settings at 1080p and if not what I will need to turn down. At least they made an SLI profile for DS3 =) Thank for sharing your knowledge!

Could you post a link to a website where I can order a GTX 690 waterblock. I know they are hard to find now of day but I really want to water cool mine.

I recently bought a second hand Asus GTX 690 (NOT 960) for €200. I'm using this card in combination with an overclocked FX-6300 (5.15GHZ) and 8GB G.Skill Ripjaws 2133MHz. When playing Batllefield 4 on Ultra at 2560x1080 (21:9 monitor) the game hangs every now and then. When it does it just hangs for a second. After I reset the CPU speeds to stock it started to do this more often. So now I'm wondering if my FX-6300 is bottlenecking my 690?

Hello, everyone. I just opened my old rig to clean it and I was shocked by what I saw. My GTX 690 seems to sag. I took it out of the rig and it looks perfectly fine. Buy build in the rig it looks like that. Is it normal? If not, what can I do? I really like my GTX 690 The GTX 690 is still a powerful card and only lags VRAM to be up to date btw.

Just wondering if the 690 is still good for todays mordern games?

I saw this video on Tech Of Tomorrow and now I don't know which card to buy, a secondhand 690 (with Vram stacking?) for 250$ or a gtx 960. And i don't care about the higher power consumption. Video:

So just to start off, I am looking to upgrade my gpu, I just bought a Inno3D GTX 680 2GB from a friend for 150 dollars and its gpu vram is totally underwhelming. I came from the EVGA GTX 760 SC ACX 4GB and I'm used to being able to exceed the 2048mb mark in GTA 5 without inducing lag. So I went researching and I've come to the conclusion that I'd wind up getting 1 of the following cards to supplement my vram requirements. A. EVGA GTX 780 Ti 6GB 2. EVGA GTX 690 Signature Edition 4GB Z. EVGA GTX Titan 6GB Which one would anyone here suggest (I'm an enthusiast so i just cant stand low end new stuff might as well get cost effective high end old stuff off ebay) My research has basically boiled down to the 690 but i want everyone's opinions. Whats funny is the fact that the 690 is pretty old tech in comparison to the titan and titan black but it still holds its own and even whips the titan in many games (Based on my research).

It's that time to upgrade again. My reference GTX690 works fine and I'm moving it into a new awesome case for the wife, but that means I need a new GPU. The thing is, the 690 is a fantastic card, and I spent a lot of money at the time for it... but it's left me in a weird spot considering my performance expectations and current budget. My question: What card can I replace my 690 with that will deliver at least comparable performance without breaking the bank? I obviously wouldn't be asking this question if my budget was even close to what it was last time (it isn't), but I'd like to avoid shelling out the cash for a 980 while hoping it delivers the same spectacular results I've had with the 690. First world problem, I know, but maybe I'd get good advice here rather than relying on something like GPUBoss...

Should I get the GTX 970 or GTX 690?