Help changing from Crossfire to a single card for 2560 x 1440

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rebelwith

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Hi

I was hoping that someone could help me out with choosing an upgrade to my graphics card.

I am currently running two HD 6970 (2GB) cards in crossfire and i want to see if i can move on to a single card while still having a great frame rate on my 27" screen at 2560 * 1440 resolution. I was looking at the Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 WindForce 3X 4GB card as my single card solution.

Would this work or am i still better off using two cards to share the load? I really want to reduce the heat situation and get better performance.

My other specs are as follows:

Asus sabertooth x58
I7 950 @ 3.01 (OC 4GHZ)
10GB RAM (corsair CMP8G ) was meant to be 12 but due to cooler the last stick doesn't fit!
PSU> corsair HX 750w professional

What does everyone think?
 
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Here is my thinking. The 6970 CF is neck and neck with the GTX 580 SLI in most cases. Two GTX 580's in SLI are faster than a single GTX 680 and the GTX 770 is too close to the GTX 680 to call a real winner between the two. So it appears the solution you have now is faster than the one you are considering.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/829?vs=772

The only single card solution that's faster than what you have is the GTX 690
 
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Rozbwen

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It depends on what games you want to play at what settings. The 770 gets pretty good frame rates even at 2560x1440 with fairly high settings (Source). If you really want a single card, you might want to go with a 780 depending on what level of performance is acceptable to you although I do feel the 780 is overpriced for $/performance.

Tinmann is correct though. I'm not sure how much if any of a gain you will see going from 6970 CF to a single card as far as frame rates but power draw, heat and noise will be much less.
 
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