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1. Re: Replaced my 9500 GT 1gb with the GTX 580 3gb - not too impressed.
Harm Millaard Oct 28, 2011 7:36 AM (in response to nados)If you want to have a good indication of the performance gain, run the PPBM5 Benchmark twice, once with the 9500 and once with the 580. My guess is that the 580 will show an increase of around 80-100% over the 9500. Is that impressive? Was it worth the investment? Only you can answer that in light of your workflow. BFTB-wise a 560+ is what most people ought to get, since the difference between a 560, 570 and 580 is hardly noticeable.
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2. Re: Replaced my 9500 GT 1gb with the GTX 580 3gb - not too impressed.
ECBowen Oct 28, 2011 7:50 AM (in response to nados)The GHz and performance of your CPU will decide how much of the video card is being used until you reach the optimal point for the material and project. A 920 CPU is likely holding some of the performance back for the MPE engine with that card. Clocking the 920 chip higher will help if you have not done that already. Also increasing the ram will help on some projects because of how much ram is used by the video card for caching besides what Adobe uses. The video card enhances the performance of editing but it is definitely not the only factor in regards to performance with the MPE engine. The PPBM5 will give you an idea of that when you compare afterwords.
Eric
ADK
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3. Re: Replaced my 9500 GT 1gb with the GTX 580 3gb - not too impressed.
nados Oct 28, 2011 12:12 PM (in response to Harm Millaard)Harm,
I will run the banchmark test asap... Its a pain in the a-s taking the GTX in and out. In fact, i had to pull one of my internal drives out and run it on top of the machine in order to fit the 580 card and i have the Antec 300 ATX case! I just needed 1 more inch and it would of fit without touching the hard drive.
ECBowen,
1. I can overclock the i7 920 but what current 1366 socket processor would you recommend to partner with the GTX580?
2. I already have 12gb of ddr3 ram on the system and the GTX 580 has 3gb on it.
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4. Re: Replaced my 9500 GT 1gb with the GTX 580 3gb - not too impressed.
ECBowen Oct 28, 2011 12:27 PM (in response to nados)1: Well a 6 Core overclocked is really want you want to use that card. If you can get a 6 core to 4GHz then you will make much better use of that card.
2: The higher the Memory/Frame Buffer on the video card, the greater the amount shadowed to system ram which means you have less for the programs. You definitely want 24GB of ram with that card.
Eric
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5. Re: Replaced my 9500 GT 1gb with the GTX 580 3gb - not too impressed.
nados Oct 28, 2011 2:11 PM (in response to ECBowen)Holly crap!
My MB has 6 slots currently filled with 6 2gb sticks. I'd have to replace all sticks with 4gb sticks to get to 24g's. Luckly, 4g sticks have come down in price. I can get 24gb's for about 160 bucks.
Since improving or overclocking my processor and doubling my memory will improve the performance of the GTX 580, obviously, things would improve with the old 9500 GT as well. I'm wondering if the after overclocking or changinging the processor and doubling the ram, will still be getting about a 20% improvement with the GTX 580 over the 9500 GT?
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6. Re: Replaced my 9500 GT 1gb with the GTX 580 3gb - not too impressed.
Bill Gehrke Oct 28, 2011 5:09 PM (in response to nados)What are you running, CS5 or CS5.5? CS5.5 uses much more GPU than CS5 did.
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7. Re: Replaced my 9500 GT 1gb with the GTX 580 3gb - not too impressed.
nados Oct 29, 2011 6:41 AM (in response to Bill Gehrke)I think it funny how posters re-ask questions that are already contained in the original (first) post.
I'm running CS5 - damn!
Man... this has just snowballed... now i also need a faster processor, more memory and an upgrade to CS5.5 (which propably should have been a free patch) just to get more out of the new $500 GPU!
I just can't win!
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8. Re: Replaced my 9500 GT 1gb with the GTX 580 3gb - not too impressed.
nados Oct 30, 2011 9:06 PM (in response to nados)The card manufacturer support said that running two cards with different GPU's may not work or may be unstable. They suggested using cards with the same GPU.
Do you all agree?
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9. Re: Replaced my 9500 GT 1gb with the GTX 580 3gb - not too impressed.
ECBowen Oct 31, 2011 7:46 AM (in response to nados)You want it to be the same series. It does not have to be the same GPU model number. In other words the second card should be a 500 Series Card if you already have a 500 series card.
Eric
ADK
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10. Re: Replaced my 9500 GT 1gb with the GTX 580 3gb - not too impressed.
nados Oct 31, 2011 8:03 AM (in response to ECBowen)thanks.



