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GTX 780 TI or wait for the GTX 790?

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Looking to upgrade this system as it just isn't cutting it anymore at 2560x1440...

i7 920 @ 4.1ghz
8 GB DDR 3
2x6990s - Crossfire

Looking into upgrading the processor, motherboard, memory, and GPUs. Would it make sense to wait for the 790, or is that basically a glorified 780 with 2 GPUs on the chip? I am steering away from AMD due to their drivers always being pretty bad...

Thank you!
 
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1 single 780 ti may technically only be as powerful as 2 6990's but it will sure eliminate headaches.

That with a new Haswell cpu will not only perform better consistently, it'll do so using 1/3 the power.
 
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Isn't this still rumours , and isn't maxwell due out this fall?
 
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Sell those HD 6990 while you can get some good money from miners.
 
#13 ·
If you can swing it, two 780 classifieds from evga would make games at 2560x1440 feel so amazing even if you leave them at stock.

One 780 won't be that great for most games, so definitely go sli custom pcb cards. I'm a mega evga fanboy (different than nvidia fanboy btw) so I'm biased to the classified cards, but the lightning from msi is a stupidly good card also, I have a 780 classy and 780 lightning and they are both amazing. The Asus dcu2 is also really good for air cooling, but you have to void it's warranty to overclock it as far as the classified can go.
 
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can't believe that it s not cutting it at 2560X1440 , my 2x 7970/280x are already way too much for my 2560x1440 , i can get 120 fps in most game with everything maxed except AA (they are both at 1150/1800 oc).
and it s close to impossible to tell the difference in any moving frame between 8 or 16 or 24 msaa or such thing , so don't expect to see any differences appart from CF issues.
On the drivers issues , it s down to the user , i had plenty of cards from both brand , never had a game not working with amd even with high oc and driver crash are very very rare.
But i had 2 card from nvidia that were totally unable to play bf3 or bf4 and i guess other game with the same engine (on 3-4 different computers and countless install) , as soon as you lunch the game graphic driver crash , these kind of problem were only worst when oced , you get driver crash in other games too.
So only believe your experience because trust me there are as much problems with nvidia then amd , no way to avoid them , to be honest both drivers are crappy in the sens that both will crash sometimes.
 
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Well if you want to stick to quad cards, you'll either want a x79 cpu and motherboard which can be expensive for a decent set up, just as much as two 780s, or a good z87 motherboard with a plx chip on it, also expensive, paired with a 4770k.

Imo get two 780s and a 4670k and a nice $175 range motherboard, it'll probably end up being cheaper in the end.
 
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Originally Posted by szeged View Post

Well if you want to stick to quad cards, you'll either want a x79 cpu and motherboard which can be expensive for a decent set up, just as much as two 780s, or a good z87 motherboard with a plx chip on it, also expensive, paired with a 4770k.

Imo get two 780s and a 4670k and a nice $175 range motherboard, it'll probably end up being cheaper in the end.
I want to stay around 1500-1800 if possible. Ill have to look at some prices. One of those 780s will crush my 6990 apparently. Two of them will be nuts.
 
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I may even just go with a single 780TI card. Forgo all that SLI for now, and see how it runs. I am looking to play Battlefield 4 and Elder Scrolls Online. I was in the beta and it ran "ok" at my resolution, but had zero support for crossfire, and did not have a true fullscreen mode. They are implementing those features shortly, but I had no testbed to work with.

I can probably sell my 6990s for a decent amount and pay for most of the card id think. Any idea how much one of those would go for?
 
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