hi again, Rappet.
Nice to hear I was useful back then =) hope You enjoy working’ with it.
Think everyOne of us has slightly different FOV toward investment, based on their own workflow, needs, budget, etc. so, take my thoughts only as personal view =)
Here we have quite hot summer & thus running multiple cards side by side would be a problem for me (as I don’t have temperature controlled room =).I’d only pick OverClocked cards if they would have insane cooler like this
Titan from Gigabyte with WindForce & decide to step building open case like
Polder done.
I’ve been running couple Overclocked cards in open case with space between, but once I’ve stuffed them inside - I was worried about temperatures a lot..that’s why I actually prefer stock coolers that exhaust air out from the case & not looking to any OverClocks for GPU as at some moment I’ll find things falling apart.
However if ambient temperatures are fine (& You’re working let’s say in air-conditioned room) there’s nothing wrong having multiple OC’ed cards. Just from what I’ve read so far OC’ing gives diminishing returns as You’re always balancing on the edge. Worst case scenario is that a card or two, maybe even entire rig, might fail when You need that least & for my perspective that would be a steep price to pay. I’d rather have a rig rock stable & a bit slower, then fast & unpredictable. Probably that’s one of the reasons why I see water-cooling as big advantage. If I’d go for multiple OC’ed GPU’s I’d probably step to water-cooling without thinking as running 40-50C is way more relaxed than 80-90C. With such headroom You can play on the safe side with OverClocks.
As for Your card. Lower end card I’d probably put it inside for the screen only. You power supply looks good & I believe You should not have any problems to run Your rig with 900W (unless PSU is really tired, capacitors got degraded or some loose contacts have too much resistance, etc).
I would leave 580s in one rig as they are Fermi based (can handle different amount of textures) pluss it’s good to have 3Gb machine & 6Gb, rather then two with 3Gb ( if You would decide to mix cards =)
As for Titan vs 780 (6Gb), I’d step for the last one, because of price..- let’s say..with what You save from two cards - You might buy better motherboard, bigger case & thus house two more cards later (even if need to add additional PSU to handle those - You know that fact that You can connect two of them if You want? =)..
Again it depends from what perspective You’re looking to everything as that’s very subjective. I believe most of us got their points & are right in one or the other way, but our reasoning looks not so stable from other standpoint, so in the end everything depends on You personal needs & usage =)
That is, unless they also release 6 GB 780 Tis, then things look bad for Titans anyway.
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