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Looking at that card, but not sure if I should wait to buy on the 600 series cards in 6 months or so.

since they're slated to be about 2times as many cuda cores on them due to a smaller die.

nVidia's Road map is suggesting pretty impressive cards will be coming soon based on these smaller dies, and then in 2 more years it's going to be crazy.

roadmap image:

TSMC, the semiconductor manufacturer, has problems with the 28nm building proccess.
http://lenzfire.com/2011/07/nvidia-kepl ... l-2-84329/

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well, I decided to purchase a 2nd GTX260 Core 216 because it's less than 100 bux and I can double my cores. And very few of my renders require any really large memory consumption.

I would not hold my breath the Kepler arch will be in 5 months....after the Fermi experience, i am more inclined to believe it will be 10 or more...but then again, we may be in for pleasant surprise....

Ya, think I'll be ok with a 2nd 260 adding to the crunching till the 600's come along.

Why don't you buy a GTX 460 instead of the 260 ? It has 114 cores more and mixing gpus should work fine since 2.48.

heh, where were you yesterday

no no no, j/k.

I was limiting myself to under the $100 mark if I was tiding myself over, so I just went ahead and got a duplicate of this card for $80. looking on ebay, it looks like most of the 460's are going to for around $130 or so, which was just more than I would have been willing to spend on a tide over card anyway. Plus should there be a need for SLI at some point in the next year or so with another application, I will have identical cards to be able to do that.

I thought a 2nd hand GTX 460 would sell below 100$.
SLI is definately a good reason if you play games.

.. I just finished assembling my home furnace - or a set of 4 GTX cards, and I was thinking how long would it take until the tech doubles as it is.. and replace the 5 gpu cores with one
My room is mega hot with closed window and had a climate control built a month ago ..
I had multiple power failures/overloads/overheats until I found the butterzone..

I wander, are they going to do something really usefull and revolutionary, and make the GPUs connect without a mainboard, just switch another gpu (together with built in power supply) and connect it to the GPU cards that is inside the case - as the things are right now - noone has enough room inside their computer cases to even fit three GPU cards in.. my motherboard is called "supercomputer" just because it has 7 gpu slots, and no way you can fit in more than 4 air cooled cards inside and it overheats right now.. watercooling increases the price by another gpu card..
And what the hell with those 4 way SLI.. so you can play a game in max res on a 30inch monitor - who the hell cares, the thing works fine on one GPU - I didn't even try the SLI mode, who cares - it's another game, that you finish playing in about 5 hours time..

nvidia guys, forget about SLI and start to concentrate on people doing creative work with those things.. make the gpus come together - like those external gpu expander boxes, just do the electronics which can daisy chain all the gpus together - they could really sell more..
Like right now, you have to think about the space inside your case if you want to upgrade, and or get a new mainboard, or get a gpu expander box - complicated, less likely to find one, and more expensive - just make them like modular boxes which can be hot swapped and outside of the pc box.. and what about that tech when they said you could exchange graphic cards on laptops .. I mean, it's been years when they anounced that..
well, who the hell cares, do the best with what you got..

wait for the new tech, cause you will be kicking yourself when it gets here, wishing you waited for the upgrade

I don't do too much with gaming, though certainly some, but it's more a thought of potential benefit in the editing softwares that I use.

Refracty wrote:I thought a 2nd hand GTX 460 would sell below 100$.
SLI is definately a good reason if you play games.