Is a single GTX570 faster than 2 x GTX460 in SLI?

Someone's selling a GTX460 and I'm trying to decide if it's worth picking up the card and replacing my mobo so I can SLI them, or just upgrading to the GTX570.

GTX460 SLI will be more performance than single GTX570 IF the games support SLI.

But you need bigger PSU to run GTX460 SLI and bigger Casing too.

If let me choose....

I will go for Single GTX570. Unless can found a cheap GTX460 and now got Big PSU. ...Mobo can support SLI....why not?

@kwackers

I strongly suggest u to get a gtx570 at least rather then upgrading the mobo and the gpu..

And sell off ur 460 to me, coz i;m willing to buy it! As u can see on my siggy there..
Do contact me if u interested k? Its a TOP version is it??
Hehehehe

perhaps u do him a favor by finding a cheap GTX570 seller.

overall Single card is far better.

ALL shifu i have one question

sli gtx 560ti need any water cooling ? or graphic card stock fan will do ?

Should be fine with normal fan. I am SLi'ing two GTX570 and I am using the air cooler

how much of performance SLi 570's will compare to the new kepler 680.. is it a worth upgrading from 580/570's to the new card or jst stay at the current one

WTH.. nevermind.. going for 580 instead! Wuaahahaha!!!

firstly, i like to stress that this is my first time build an SLI setup.

ive mounted 2 msi 560gtx ti on my p8z68 v-pro mobo, together with sli bridge, with monitor was hooked at primary (upper gc) dvi socket of the gc, but windows wont boot (monitor shows no signal).

however the win7 will boot;
1) if i take out the 2nd gc
2) or hook the monitor to the dvi of 2nd gc

however nvidia driver did not detect both gc if i go for 2nd step

what is wrong actually?

you first tiem set up the RIg?

You should install the latest GC driver with one GC first.
after the GC driver install complete then you off it.

Then you plug in 2nd GC.
On it again then your computer will auto detect the 2nd GC.

Go Nvidia Driver control....SLI section and Enable it.

not my First time setting up rig, just first time doing sli

ive done the steps u told, but still the situation remains the same.
if both card is placed in pci-e slots, when hooked the monitor to the 1st gc, windows will not boot.

windows will boot if only the first gc is on the mobo, or monitor is hooked on the 2nd gc

Maybe the SLI bridge is malfunctioning?

Hmm this board has 2 or 3 pcie graphic slots?

Edit: ah 3 slots. which slots did you use?

This post has been edited by DrBlueBox: Mar 25 2012, 08:19 PM

hmm...sli bridge may be damaged...hmmm
is damaged sli bridge will prevent sli configuration to be functioning?

ive read somewhere in the forum that sli bridge is not essential for sli, only to boost performance of dual gc to 30-40%.

im using the 1st and 2nd pci-e slot, since the third is too near with psu

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Added on March 26, 2012, 6:29 amive formatted my windows n reinstall nvidia driver 296.10, still no success....
help help help!!

This post has been edited by safwandalbadalsa: Mar 26 2012, 06:29 AM

1. Can you check in your BIOS/Windows device properties if both cards are detected successfully?
2. Can you try to use one card at a time just to make sure that both cards are not faulty?

I wonder.. what is the spec of ur PSU?? A single 560 ti should consume around 200-230watt.. 2x 560 ti should consider a 500watt just for the gpu's only, so for a better stability of ur system, u should get at least a 700W of psu to power up both gpu's (a very good one, not a cap ayam brand aa..)

U may refer here:
http://forum-en.msi.com/faq/article/power-...-graphics-cards

my psu is enermax 850w 80% efficiency aaa...

yes both of the cards are not faulty. already checked them invidually.
u may refer to my earlier post.

btw ive checked thoroughly in bios, i cant find any device properties regarding gc. btw how should i check in windows7?

Right click on My Computer > Prperties > Divce Manager > Display Adapters..

there u can se how many gpu u got.. should get 2 if u plug them both..

it only shows 1 560gtx ti
emm...could it be faulty mobo? however the pci-e's slot are working if i plug in dvi cable individually (1 gc in slot 1 or 1 gc in slot 2)

seem that my pc keep crash when played BF3
570 sc sli on 296.10