And then, of course, nvidia releases the GTX Titan today. $1000 single-card processing faster than a 690. Definitely wonder what kind of CUDA performance this thing has. Ever since I saw a Maximus setup doing realtime fluid sim calculations I've been waiting for it to come within consumer pricing. This is no Maximus, but tempting, depending on AE/PP/3D performance...

http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/19/nvidia-gtx-titan-announce/

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Brian Maffitt <brian@totaltraining.com> wrote:

I had forgotten how much I missed three monitors until I got the 690. It's so useful to have my Wacom 22HDHD set up as a separate desktop and not mirrored to another monitor. It came in really handy this weekend when I had an impossible turnaround for a demanding client, and needed all of the real estate I could get.

Brian

Similar situation for the 690 vs 680. A lot more expensive for not a whole lot more bang, unless you are pushing millions of polys in maya / zbrush or have a gaming addiction (guilty). Its also a pretty big power suck, drawing around 300 watts i think? it means you need at least a 1000 watt psu. Furthermore, while the 680 / 690 do support four monitors, the 3gb gtx 580 (which only supports two simultaneous) actually has 150% of the CUDA performance of the 6xx series, due to nvidia gimping the Cuda processing in favor of quadro line. It's also even cheaper, although hard to find. 

On Tuesday, February 19, 2013, Evan Fotis wrote:

cost effective big time at the moment unless money is no issue at all.
On 19-Feb-13 16:57, Angie-Taylor wrote:

And please remind me, why choose i7 over Xeon?

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