Basic question, should I buy an additional GTX 460, I can get one for 30 bucks, or do I need to upgrade my card to play Metro last light on max? I have a i7 980x Extreme clocked @ 3.7 GHz, 6GB DDR3 @ 1600 GTX 460 SE 1GB SLI
[QUOTE="drtyturban"]Basic question, should I buy an additional GTX 460, I can get one for 30 bucks, or do I need to upgrade my card to play Metro last light on max? I have a i7 980x Extreme clocked @ 3.7 GHz, 6GB DDR3 @ 1600 GTX 460 SE 1GB SLI everything is up to par, EXCEPT that gpu...its time to let it go and move on to better and faster !
[QUOTE="drtyturban"]Basic question, should I buy an additional GTX 460, I can get one for 30 bucks, or do I need to upgrade my card to play Metro last light on max? I have a i7 980x Extreme clocked @ 3.7 GHz, 6GB DDR3 @ 1600 GTX 460 SE 1GB SLI cesarexec22
everything is up to par, EXCEPT that gpu...its time to let it go and move on to better and faster ! lol $30 vs spending at least $200 to match the potential performance with SLI option
[QUOTE="drtyturban"]Basic question, should I buy an additional GTX 460, I can get one for 30 bucks, or do I need to upgrade my card to play Metro last light on max? I have a i7 980x Extreme clocked @ 3.7 GHz, 6GB DDR3 @ 1600 GTX 460 SE 1GB SLI cesarexec22
everything is up to par, EXCEPT that gpu...its time to let it go and move on to better and faster !
But he said he can get one another one for $30...that's worth it, easily. Â He'll run out of VRAM at some point but for the meanwhile that's SLI for chump-change.
Last Light doesn't use a lot of VRAM, even @1600p. Â $30 for that game is worth it IMO.
[QUOTE="cesarexec22"][QUOTE="drtyturban"]Basic question, should I buy an additional GTX 460, I can get one for 30 bucks, or do I need to upgrade my card to play Metro last light on max? I have a i7 980x Extreme clocked @ 3.7 GHz, 6GB DDR3 @ 1600 GTX 460 SE 1GB SLI FaustArp
everything is up to par, EXCEPT that gpu...its time to let it go and move on to better and faster !
But he said he can get one another one for $30...that's worth it, easily. Â He'll run out of VRAM at some point but for the meanwhile that's SLI for chump-change.
Last Light doesn't use a lot of VRAM, even @1600p. Â $30 for that game is worth it IMO.
yeah its at the price its worth it though the memory is a negative. You need at least 1GB of vRam these days as games like Bioshock infinite, Crysis 3 and Metro go into the 900MB to over a gig range. You should still get pretty good performance boost though and at 30 its absolutely worth it.
yeah its at the price its worth it though the memory is a negative. You need at least 1GB of vRam these days as games like Bioshock infinite, Crysis 3 and Metro go into the 900MB to over a gig range. You should still get pretty good performance boost though and at 30 its absolutely worth it.
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The GTX 460 SE is a 1GB card. It basically lies between the 460GTX 768 and 460GTX 1GB version in performance. It is actually a great card that really should never have been made. Either that or they should not have released the 768 version.
Edit: Just to clear things up with the OP, you will need to SLI with only an SE version of the card. You can not do it with either the 768 or the 1GB version as the SE has one group of CUDA cores diabled.
The 460 SE is a GTX 460 1GB card with 1 shader cluster disabled. It has only 288 CUDA cores compared to 336 for the 768 and 1GB version. That is why it will need to be SLI'd with only another SE card.
The reason that it still generally performs better than the 768MB version, even though it is missing some shaders, is because the SE still has the higher bandwidth memory of the 1GB 460GTX (256 bit), while the 768MB card is only 192 bit memory.
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