I-5 and two 770's ?

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No. Just make sure that you get a Z77, socket 1155 motherboard if you're going with IB.
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Because VRAM does not stack in SLI. Two 2GB cards does not mean 4GB of VRAM; it means two GB of VRAM, which may not be sufficient to run more than one 1080p monitor.
 
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in SLi/xfire, the ram each core is using is limited to the individual card's ram. so when you push the resolutions even though they're splitting the work, it's not that efficient, so the whole project gets loaded in duplicate onto each gpu's ram ... so once you push past 2gb of vram needed at x resolution, your cards will get vram bottlenecked. This is why it's such a shame the AMD cards xfire sucks so bad. The top of the line amd all come with 3gb by default... which apparently is enough vram to play most games at 4k resolutions.
 
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Worst gaming monitor on the planet. That is an expensive monitor meant for business people to have two full-sized windows open at once, not for gamers...
 
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hahahah yeah it is a unique monitor lol

quick change of an idea what if I were to go with the I-5 Ivy bridge? http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168... Would that be bottlenecking them at all?
 
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No. Just make sure that you get a Z77, socket 1155 motherboard if you're going with IB.
 
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If you haven't bought it yet, just get an Asrock Extreme4 for $50 cheaper; it will perform the same. If you have bought it already, then it should work.
 
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Sure. It is on par with the Extreme4, and both are great price/performance motherboards. Whichever one floats your boat :)
 
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I am going to stick with the M77 Mpower because it fits my color scheme and it matches the RAM and the Led's lol
 
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Okay. It's your choice.
Don't forget to pick a B.A.! :)
 
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???
 
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B.A. stands for "Best Answer". If you feel that there has been someone who has really helped you on this thread, there is a great button at the bottom of their post and you can choose theirs as the best answer! :)
 
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