I got a gtx 570 myself last week. Was thinking about the 3gb gtx580 but that's twice as expensive as the vanilla 570. When the next gen cards come out next year I might splurge and go SLI with two $500 cards. Be a real bummer to spend $1200 now on two 580 3gb's and have a single 7970 or 680 fly circles around it in 5 or 6 months. Paid $319 for the 570.
So far I'm happy with the 570. With a i2500k at 4.3ghz it's running at around 95% max memory in Il2 CoD. Everything at high. 40Fps over London and pretty much 50-60fps everywhere else, no stutters. Coming from a e6600 duo and 8800gts and I'm really enjoying the game now. No more ctd's. What really surprised me are the 570's temperatures. I have it running side by side with an 8800gts. At idle the 8800gts is at 55c and the 570 sits around 33c(open case). Even under load the 570 has not gone over 60c.
On the Intel, Nvidia side I think a combo of i2500k and 570/560ti, sli will give you the most bang for the buck. You can spend $100 more on a i2600k or $200 more on a regular gtx580 and see very little improvement. If the new gpu hardware was not just around the corner I probably would've gotten the gtx580 3gb anyway.
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10-18-2011, 05:58 PM
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