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kassem
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Someone is offering me 3 evga's gtx 580 hydrocopper ftw for a good price. But im worried about not beeing able to play with new games even in sli. For the fact thay they are only 1.5gb each. Should I buy them?

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Depends on the pricing. A 2 way 580 sli performs similarly to a 780 Ti. 

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what is a 'good price'

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But what im worried about is that 1.5gb of memory. If it is a 3 way sli do they work all toghether of only 1 gtu delivers the memory?

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But what im worried about is that 1.5gb of memory. If it is a 3 way sli do they work all toghether of only 1 gtu delivers the memory?

You should be worried, they are obsolete cards with obsolete amounts of VRAM for today's games. Do not buy these cards, waste of money. 

 

Even if three of them deliver a decent amount of performance, you will be bottlenecked by the VRAM in every single game today. Forcing you to seriously lower the graphical settings in games, making it pointless to have 3 of them in SLI since you wont be able to use a single ounce of the power to begin with.

 

 

Depends on the pricing. A 2 way 580 sli performs similarly to a 780 Ti. 

 

 

Not at all. SLI 670's perform similar to a single 780 Ti. A single 580 is about 25% slower than a 670. 

 

 

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Not at all. SLI 670's perform similar to a single 780 Ti. A single 580 is about 25% slower than a 670. 

Ahh, my bad. Not sure how I made such a typo. I was thinking oc'ed 580's and for some odd reason added Ti at the end instead.

 

In dollars less than 300us. Thoughts?

It's not really worth it unless you really, really like how it looks. 

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