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What do you think if the price is right ?

Right price to me is like 120$ Max for both cards. Otherwise no

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It's I/O....

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Nope. Wouldn't be worth it.

Unless you're preparing for the long, cold winter.

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Nope. Wouldn't be worth it.

Unless you're preparing for the long, cold winter.

Well just assume that heat and power are of little concern .
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Just grab a r9 280

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I yern for quad SLI GTX 480s with an OCed FX 9590

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Where is that thread where the guy has triple 480's.... (currently still used)

 

Couldnt find it, but here is SLI

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/222936-many-things-all-gtx-480-related-now-with-pics-of-the-cards/

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???

Are you mad?

Do you want to cook yourself?

Perhaps a couple 480s and an FX 8320 is more realistic I presume.
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Well if the price is right (as in sub 100 bucks for two cards) then yeah, why not, but if it's any higher it doesn't make sense.

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Perhaps a couple 480s and an FX 8320 is more realistic I presume.

 

It is.

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Drool for dual cards in bed with each other .

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Just one of them can eat a current gen console alive, and there are two consoles... mmm breakfast!!!

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Well if the price is right (as in sub 100 bucks for two cards) then yeah, why not, but if it's any higher it doesn't make sense.

Sub $100 for 2 480s lol. Are you craken out ?
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@Ryan Leech is the one with 3-way SLI 465's

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i would prefer 2 560ti's, since they are practically the same, and much less power hungry

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Where is that thread where the guy has triple 480's.... (currently still used)

 

Couldnt find it, but here is SLI

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/222936-many-things-all-gtx-480-related-now-with-pics-of-the-cards/

 

EDIT: nevermind, not the same guy.

That would presumably be this guy with tri-SLI 465:

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/191558-gtx-465-3-way-sli/

 

He was motivated to do it because he didn't like his GTX 770 for this reason:

 

 

 

 

I just wasn't happy with it. It performed too well. It was too quiet. It was too cool. It was too power efficient. It couldn't overclock. I hated it 
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i would prefer 2 560ti's, since they are practically the same, and much less power hungry

I like high performance beasts. 480 would be more like a 660 or a 560ti (448 cores)
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@Ryan Leech is the one with 3-way SLI 465's

Thanks for that.

 

OP - http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/191558-gtx-465-3-way-sli/

 

Got Ninja'd by @Tacitus as I posted this.

 

 

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Perhaps a couple 480s and an FX 8320 is more realistic I presume.

Yes, because I can clock my 8350 higher than the 9590 within a safe voltage. Unless you're too lazy to overclock, it's better going for a lower end chip.

 

I'd rather dual R9 270's over the GTX 480. I know Newegg had the PowerColor R9 270 for $100 a pop just the other day, but they're $120 now.

 

The R9 270 is the 7870, and the 7870 is slightly better than the GTX 480...

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Sub $100 for 2 480s lol. Are you craken out ?

 

that's what it makes sense to pay for them (not to mention they'll almost certainly be used)... anything higher and I'd say get something newer. I never said he'd find them at that price, it's just what I'd pay for them.

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Thanks for that.

 

OP - http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/191558-gtx-465-3-way-sli/

 

Got Ninja'd by @Tacitus as I posted this.

 

 

So here is some Ryan-Leech Epicness

I dub thee 'Sexy Sandwich' or  'Sandy' for short :)

 

I'm glad you like it :) And I like the name haha

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I could use a 480. My computer room is sometimes rather chilly in the winter, the heating system in my house isn't so strong.

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I yern for quad SLI GTX 480s with an OCed FX 9590

 

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