[EVGA] 2x 760 or 1x 780, Standard or Superclocked, Standard or ACX

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For gaming, performance/price, noise level, heat, re-selling capability.

I'm playing on a 1080p 42in TV, but I plan to expand to 1x1440p or 3x1080p monitors. Games are not needed to max out on the 3x1080p resolution. I play late at night so I need it to be quiet. I like to keep my rig up-to-date but not at the top quality because my budget is quite limited, I will need to re-sell them eventually with a reasonable price.

Suggestions please, thank you!
 
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Hi there, I see your lightning is already on sale :p

As for performance, this review didn't test ACX cards directly, but the performance comparison came out to be very useful : http://www.legitreviews.com/article/2224/1/

Throughout the review, a pair of GTX760 yield 10-15% higher performance than a single 780 at 1600p resolution. But at 5760*1080, a pair of GTX760 drop its performance rapidly due to their limited amount of VRAM, especially with high AA settings in games like Hitman Absolution or FarCry3, plus in a few other titles that don't scale SLI well. Even a pair of GTX680/770 struggle there.

And EVGA's ACX cooler isn't very quiet on the GTX760...
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Hi there, I see your lightning is already on sale :p

As for performance, this review didn't test ACX cards directly, but the performance comparison came out to be very useful : http://www.legitreviews.com/article/2224/1/

Throughout the review, a pair of GTX760 yield 10-15% higher performance than a single 780 at 1600p resolution. But at 5760*1080, a pair of GTX760 drop its performance rapidly due to their limited amount of VRAM, especially with high AA settings in games like Hitman Absolution or FarCry3, plus in a few other titles that don't scale SLI well. Even a pair of GTX680/770 struggle there.

And EVGA's ACX cooler isn't very quiet on the GTX760:

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So, unless the different in price plays a big factor here, you'd better be settled with a single GTX780 instead. And no one can tell the reselling capability of those card, but it's quite clear that GTX TITAN will remain as nvidia's best single gpu solution until next year, and the GTX 780 will share the glory from that also. As for GTX760, we'll have to see how will AMD's HD8000 series turn out.
 
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Get a single GTX780 if you can afford it. Yeah, it's worst than 2 GTX 760s at 1080p, but at higher resolutions, they are neck and neck. If don't already know, a single GTX 780 uses less power than 2 GTX 760s (around 100W less), thus heat and noise.

Check review on 2 GTX 760s
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/2224/1/
 
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Thanks guys! Guess I will go with a single GTX 780 then. It's quite expensive and I hate the fact that I will have to re-sell it cheaply later on, but the noise would bother me more, plus I only have a Corsair AX 760i PSU right now, that wouldn't be enough for two 760 I guess, if I go for sli 760 the price would need to include a PSU upgrade too.

Btw Madn3ss795, do I know you? How do you know that I'm selling my 680 lightning? I posted it on a local forum in my country's language, you can read that? :p
 
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760W is more than enough for 2 GTX 760s. Just wanted to clarify that

 
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Oh thanks I didn't know that. But wouldn't it be better if the PSU doesn't run at its full load? I mean it would be noisy and would die faster, also would there be more chance for electric shock to occur? My PC got shocked once before when I used a HX 1050W and the motherboard was broken.
 
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Thanks a lot for the info guys. Btw what's the main difference between gtx 6xx and gtx 7xx and the Titan, other than higher numbers in their stats? What makes the Titan best single GPU card? As what I saw from Nvidia's website they all have similar features and all use Kepler GPU architecture.

Madn3ss795: Ahh I knew I saw that avatar of yours before.
 
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You can use TPU's GPU database to check for different: http://www.techpowerup.com/gpudb/

Titan is stripped down from an enterprise workstation graphic card, with GTX780 a stripped down Titan. Other cards in GTX700 series are just rebranded GTX600 cards with higher clock and maybe an increase in memory bandwidth.
 
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