Would any of these parts bottleneck a gtx 690?

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Caliaton

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Hi guys, just wanted to know if these parts would work well around a gtx 690, and if they would bottleneck gaming performance in any way. I already have a monitor and 8gb of ram by the way. I know i'm lacking some things like an ssd which i will definately get in the future, but I just want to know if this will be as good with real in game performance. I'm really pushing my budget right now for the build i've got going here, so unfortunately i cant spend more on anything else. Just want to know if any of these parts will hold this beast of a card back at all. Thanks :D
 
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Ya, I'll second that. 690 is basically two 680's on the same board.

But that said, just buy something now and use it. As the 700's will just be a crappy old 28nm refesh anyway. A "Maxwell" GPU would be the worth while upgrade, but they(next generation) are likely still many months from launch.
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Meh. 2 670's in SLI would cost a bit less, give the same performance, and just barely consume a bit more power. If I were you, I would wait for the 770 on May 30th and grab 2 of them for about 400$ each. It would honestly give slightly better performance for less. (Save for the cooling.)
 
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It would be nice to have an sli setup but at the same time I don't want to deal with scaling problems. I know it doesnt happen in all games but i don't want to deal with having only a 10% increase in fps of both of the cards over only 1 of them. Plus, the 690 has 4 gb of vram, which is nice.

 
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The 690 is 2 gpu's in SLI on a single board, and only 2Gb of the 4GB is usable because its SLI.
 
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Ya, I'll second that. 690 is basically two 680's on the same board.

But that said, just buy something now and use it. As the 700's will just be a crappy old 28nm refesh anyway. A "Maxwell" GPU would be the worth while upgrade, but they(next generation) are likely still many months from launch.
 
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Caliaton

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Yeah actually you are right, but I just like the idea of not having to deal with 2 different cards in my system I guess. And everyone, my ram is 1 8gb stick rather than 2 4gb sticks. Is that ok?

 
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Thanks for the input guys, I decided to grab the 690 because it only cost me the price of 2 gtx 670's, and I didn't have to pay tax on it either (I live in California where sales tax is almost 8%), so that actually comes out as less than it would be for 2 gtx 670's which would have the same or worse performance, more power consumption, and more heat. Plus, the 690 just looks like a beast.
 
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