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#2891257 - 10/30/09 02:30 PM
best and fastest Nvidea Card available?
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I want to buy a new video card and want the best single card available. Which card should I buy? I have a ASUS Maximus Formula and I have money to burn (sort of). I want to stick with Nvidea.
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#2891285 - 10/30/09 02:58 PM
Re: best and fastest Nvidea Card available?
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well, if you wait a little longer you could save a few bucks during the holiday sales; and also the GT3xx series might be on the horizon; although there's no definitive proof. Personally, I'd make the switch to a 58xx since it pretty much beats any current nvidia card and costs less http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/gamin...Score,1533.html
Edited by NoUseForAName (10/30/09 03:02 PM)
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#2892314 - 11/01/09 11:04 AM
Re: best and fastest Nvidea Card available?
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Currently for nVidia
Fastest single GPU card: 285
Fastest dual GPU card: 295 How can a single 285 be faster than a single 295? 295 is a dual-slot configuration but it's still a single card. 285 isn't much faster, if at all, than a 280, and 295 has a 52% performance increase over 280, according to what I read in the Tech Generation Daily.
Edited by Plainsman (11/01/09 11:11 AM)
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#2892378 - 11/01/09 01:40 PM
Re: best and fastest Nvidea Card available?
[Re: Plainsman]
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Currently for nVidia
Fastest single GPU card: 285
Fastest dual GPU card: 295 How can a single 285 be faster than a single 295? 295 is a dual-slot configuration but it's still a single card. 285 isn't much faster, if at all, than a 280, and 295 has a 52% performance increase over 280, according to what I read in the Tech Generation Daily. I was listing the fastest single GPU and dual GPU. I was not saying that the 285 was equal to the 295 in terms of speed. BTW the 295 is a single slot dual GPU config 
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#2892446 - 11/01/09 03:48 PM
Re: best and fastest Nvidea Card available?
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Thanks guys. I think I will go with the 295.
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#2892498 - 11/01/09 06:08 PM
Re: best and fastest Nvidea Card available?
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Thanks guys. I think I will go with the 295. I will too. But I'm puzzled because it says in Tech Generation Daily that the 295 is a "dual slot configuration." I've never seen one, though. Hmmmm.
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#2892955 - 11/02/09 10:46 AM
Re: best and fastest Nvidea Card available?
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The 295, which I have, is a single slot PCI-E x16, dual-GPU card.
Basically it is two cards running in SLI through one common interface and one PCI-E slot.
It is a little bit slower than 2 285's in SLI, but less power hungry. And it is almost twice as fast as a single 285.
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