anyone heard anything about this video card ?

[steve2470]

EVGA GeForce GTX 690 4GB 512-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready SLI Support Video Card

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130781

No, I'm not buying it until the price comes down very radically. $1K for a video card, obscene. Thanks for input.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

1. I've only seen...

...the newegg reviews which look almost all positive.

[steve2470]

2. ok thanks nt

[hobbit709]

3. Ultra-serious gamer card

for anyone else, meh.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

4. I'll bet it would do great with SETI.

[hobbit709]

6. My 3 GT430s and my GT450 do pretty good on folding@home

[DainBramaged]

5. Well, if I had the case to fit it in and a grand sure.....

You wouldn't have to upgrade for at least four years so amortized, it's a bargain.


My sweetie sill has a 1GB 260 in her system and it plays WOW< DIII, Guild Wars II wonderfully....I still use a 5770...

[Babel_17]

7. Dual cores

I'm a bit of a video card enthusiast, currently running a HD 7950, and I do my homework before upgrading so I think I know a thing or two.

A card like that is generally for people who use multiple monitors and game at very high resolutions with high quality anti aliasing.

Even then such a card is likely to be overkill.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/evga_geforce_gtx_690_review,1.html

Edit: Bear in mind, that review was written during the early days for nVidia's and AMD's latest cards. Their newest drivers, the software that runs the hardware, has dramatically increased performance in lots of games.