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fbm211 · ‎04-22-2013

Hello all.
I'm having a bit of back and forth thinking of wether or not to buy another 680 to match the one I have or to just get a 690 and sell my current 680.
I lost out on a good deal on a 690 with a water cooling kit so now I need to decide on sli or dual single card.

Thoughts ??? Please.

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fbm211 · ‎04-22-2013

Oops ....wrong area..

Maximus VII Apex
Intel i7 10700k @ 5GHZ
Custom Water Cooling
Patriot Viper Steel 4400 17-17-17-36-300-2t
GeForce RTX 2080 Hydro Copper
WD Black NVMe 750 500g
Seasonic Focus GX-850
Lian LI O11D XL
Dell S3220DF Monitor
Vanatoo T 0s speaker system
ROG mouse
Audio Technica ATH-AD 2000x headphones
AE-9 Sound Blaster

HiVizMan · ‎04-23-2013

The 690 is a whole lot of card and saves you the hassle of having most of the PCIe slots covered when going SLI with two big cards.

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kkn · ‎04-23-2013

but 2 680's beats 1 690.
google for test's on them.

fbm211 · ‎04-23-2013

I just won a 680 on the bay. If temps on the top card become a problem I can always get a 690 and sell the 680s. Plus my case has a VGA holder that can have a 80mm x 15mm fan installed in it for some direct cooling.. but that size fan is hard to find with a low dba. Ill keep searching.
So is there any special drivers to instal for sli..???

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Lian LI O11D XL
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Vanatoo T 0s speaker system
ROG mouse
Audio Technica ATH-AD 2000x headphones
AE-9 Sound Blaster

Arne_Saknussemm · ‎04-24-2013

No, no special driver. If you plug in the second card and connect the SLI bridge and power up you should automatically get a message telling you your system is SLI capable. Click the message and it will take you into NVIDIA control panel where you can set to maximise 3d performance and off you go.

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Zka17 · ‎04-24-2013

Yes, 2x GTX680s can beat a single GTX690... but, would you feel a real difference? - not sure about that... I would go with the GTX690...

s1DDy · ‎10-06-2013

i would go for 2 680's, i am running 2 690's atm and i know them 690's are capped to some extend to protect the cards from destroying themselfs (that be my logic XD) but with the power that the 680's and 690's have you prolly wouldn't notice the diffrence xept an extra pcie slot that you can use XD

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abvolt · ‎10-07-2013

I have a 690 its awesome no complaints at all but I wish I'd gotten 2 Titans instead.

HiVizMan · ‎10-08-2013

abvolt wrote:
I have a 690 its awesome no complaints at all but I wish I'd gotten 2 Titans instead.

Love the mindset and fully agree with you, but when the Titans came out that would have set you back over two grand at least. Not sure how much a 690 costs but I guess much less.

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To SLI OR NOT TO SLI via 690