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Mazty on 21 March 2013
CGI-Quality said:

I can't speak for him, but I was originally going to grab the 790, but looking at it, realistically, I'd probably be better off picking up two Titans and keeping the rest of my parts (32GB RAM, i7 3970X). I would only upgrade my PSU (1500W), in regards to future proofing, but two Titans would hold me over for a long while.


Won't 3 680's perform better and be cheaper as well? Same with the 7970. Extra cash saved could go into water blocks and blamo, killer clocks. 



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disolitude on 21 March 2013
Mazty said:
CGI-Quality said:

I can't speak for him, but I was originally going to grab the 790, but looking at it, realistically, I'd probably be better off picking up two Titans and keeping the rest of my parts (32GB RAM, i7 3970X). I would only upgrade my PSU (1500W), in regards to future proofing, but two Titans would hold me over for a long while.


Won't 3 680's perform better and be cheaper as well? Same with the 7970. Extra cash saved could go into water blocks and blamo, killer clocks. 


3 X 680s run in the memory limit issues as well bus bandwith issues and don't really make much sense unless for some strange reason you want a lot of frames per second on a single 1080p display and love to see screen tearing.

As soon as you go multi-monitor, more than 2 680s don't do you any service. The extra processing power you would use for more AA is bottlenecked by memory and bandwidth limits. 

Overclocked 7970 in 3 way crossfire however...that is something that could do some heavy damage for years to come. 



darkknightkryta on 21 March 2013

Unless he's going multi-monitor he's better off getting a weaker GPU and upgrading bi-yearly.



darkknightkryta on 21 March 2013
CGI-Quality said:
darkknightkryta said:
Unless he's going multi-monitor he's better off getting a weaker GPU and upgrading bi-yearly.

That's actually somewhat of the plan. I will upgrade this year and then not again till Volta releases (which may actually exceed two years)!

Yeah, that's the conclusion I came to back when I got my Geforce 3 all those years ago.  There's no point in dropping 500 dollars or more (In your case it's a bit different as you need more power and thus a pricier card) when you can spread that money on two video cards over the years and get something more powerful later on than that 500 dollar card now.



Mazty on 21 March 2013

I love this thread. Reasonable answers to reasonable questions. PC gamers rule m/