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disolitude on 26 September 2012
CGI-Quality said:
disolitude said:
CGI-Quality said:

I knew it's 1 or 3, which is why only one of my monitors is for gaming. And like I said regarding the 690, I didn't buy what I bought for the present. ;)

However, I do plan on a 3rd screen come Spring, I just couldn't afford more than two right now.

They thing is, and I learned this myself the hard way... When the future comes, it also comes with cool new technology. You may have futureproofed yourself now, but tomorrow the cards will be faster, with new features like native tripple 4K support through HDMI 1.5 or something.  It won't make sense to buy another 690 and miss out on these features.  Technology changes too fast to think more than a year or two down the road.

However I think a single GTX 690 is a solid buy if you utilize what it can offer. Like this site loves to proclaim...youve "maxed out" this gen of graphics cards. :)

I may not have this kind of money in a year or two though, so that's why I went ahead and bought the best-of-the-best of what I could afford. Not really digging the whole "4K" thing right now, but I plan to upgrade my CPU before anything else (remember my occupation). 

I doubt I'll max out that 690 anytime soon (unless of course, Crytek means business with Crysis 3 :P) and I would probably upgrade to something in Nvidia's 700 series (whenever that launches) before SLI 690. In other words, no major upgrades within the next two years outside of my CPU / mobo.

Not much room to upgrade from 3770K. Maybe the x79 platform would give you a computing upgrade but certanly not gaming.

And yeah, you won't maxx out the 690 on a single screen. Not until Crysis 5 at least lol.

BTW DDR4 spec just got finalized...

A lot of these technologies are really unnecessary. Like PCIe 3.0, which supposedly doubles the bandwidth from 2.0. So instead of 8 GB per second per 16X slot you can do 16 GB. Well that sounds wonderful, but GTX690 which is a dual GPU card, runs the same speed at 2.0 slot vs 3.0 slot. A single GPU card isn't anywhere close to maxing out PCIe 2.0.