SLI GTX 460 vs GTX570?

Ok, battlefield 3 and Skyrim are right around the corner, I have a 350 dollar budget... Should I purchase 2 GTX 460's and run in SLI, or should I get a single 570? Is SLI unreliable? I'm looking for more frames but given the fact some games don't support SLI I'm in a small pickle.



I currently have a Dell xps 730x

NVIDIA GTX 285

i7 960 @ 3.2 GHz

x58 chipset

(RAM) 6.00 GB @ 1066 MHz

600GB Hard Drive 7200rpm

Dell 1000 watt

Windows 7 64bit





thanks|||performance-wise 2x GTX 460's in SLI will outperform a Single GTX 570 by a small margin. You're looking at a 5% overall performance gain. The GTX 460 SLI setup was a very good value back when the $500 GTX 480 was the Top card.



The GTX 480 and GTX 570 have similar performance. The GTX 570 may be 1% faster.



It's true that SLI isn't 100% reliable. With the 400 and 500 series cards you can see up to an 80% performance increase by adding a second card. You won't always see an 80% performance increase by adding a second card. Games like WOW may see a 5% increase from adding a second card.



Your GTX 285 has similar performance to a GTX 460.



Also with SLI you can't combine the V-RAM. The V-RAM on the card can only be used with the GPU that's on the same board. In this case you would get a little more Video RAM with the GTX 570.



In your case getting a GTX 570 is almost a no brainer. Next year, you could pick up a GTX 570 at a discounted price and run SLI then.



You can look up some more benchmarks that compare a GTX 460 SLI vs a GTX 480 to get an idea of what the performance is like.|||Most pc games now days support dual graphic card (sli, crossfire) setups so you should be fine, i would recommend 2 460s or 2 radeon 5770s. nvidia cards are over priced and over hyped|||most SLI motherboards supporting SLI also support crossfire and my HD 5770 crossfire screens on ultra