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Lo all,

I have gone for a GTX460 (as far as my budget goes ) and i have a question, can i use my gtx280 at the same time? i know the memory wont be pooled but the cores will, if i understand correctly.


cheers

Dave.

Yeah you can use both, but mixing the gtx2xx series with the gtx4xx series probably wont scale well. You might want to leave the 285 for display ro though it on ebay to help buy a second 460.

lo DJ

which 460 model u bought ?

is it the one with 1GB or that with 768MB ?

can u post some benchmarks?

havensole wrote:Yeah you can use both, but mixing the gtx2xx series with the gtx4xx series probably wont scale well. You might want to leave the 285 for display ro though it on ebay to help buy a second 460.

I believe gtx285 despite older architecture is more powerful card than poor 460.

yes,285 stronger a bit than 460. 460 like 275 gtx

It's the 1gig OC version, will post some figures as and when.

Dave.

Might be theoretically slower, but you don't get the fermi architecture, which does have some speedups in octane. Scaling with octane with fermi cards is about 1.8-1.9x per gpu added whereas with the gtx2xx series it is much less. Somewhere in the 1.65x range.

It can be a risk....but gtx280 is kinda enough for now isn't it... ?

460 is really poor choice. I think it's worth saving that money and wait a bit more...

If really nothing else comes until Christmas( kinda possible...) atleast the 2giga version of atleast one Fermi card should come.

460 a poor choice? Sli's 460's are faster then a single 480 by a staggering 25%. Check out the benchmarks. Not to mention you can get two 460's for less then a single 480. The main issue is that it takes up an additional two slots. I would be interested in quad 460 2GB hydros but they don't exist. For me, I'm buying a quad sli- 4x480 hydros in an EVGA SR2 or Cubix. I wish Cubix did liquid cooling.

Due to input and output cooling pipes plugs, I think that you can't put two GTX 480 Hydros side by side on a SR2 motherboard. You will have to leave a gap for the pipes, and so only two GTX480 Hydros will fit on the SR2, and you will need a large case.

I'm also amost sure that these cards don't fit in the Cubix boxes, due to the same reasons : As an example, there are only 2 cm between the cover and the upper side of a GTX260, in the Cubix Xpander Pro 2, and this card has no pipes.

Look at the image here :

http://www.generation-nt.com/acheter/ev ... 71204.html