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My current rig should be listed in my signature. I am ready to gear up and future proof myself for the next-generation. Here is what I am looking to do:
1. Upgrade my 2500k to a 3570k - with the next-generation coming up I feel the 2500k may bottleneck my next pair of graphics cards.
2. Looking to go with either two 7990s for quadfire or two 8970s for crossfire - I expect the 8970s to be around $700 and I can get a pair of 7990s for quad-fire for about $1500 right now. I know the thing about going with the best card but I can handle a multi-gpu configuration. The question I have is which I should go with. I am thinking that the 7990s would give me more oomph but would I get a VRAM bottleneck? On Crysis 3 my VRAM may already be bnecking me as it's the only game I can't max at a good framerate, and I only game in 1080p.
3. I wonder about my motherboard. It is the Asus P8Z68-V pro, and it only has a two PCIe slots, one 16x and the other 8x - would that handle two dual cards if I went with the two 7990s or would I have to upgrade that also?
4. My RAM is weak. Yes, I have 16GB of it but it's 1333MHz - there are laptops out now with faster RAM. Should I dump it for 8GB of faster RAM (which may make overclocking my new CPU easier - less RAM)???
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
1. Upgrade my 2500k to a 3570k - with the next-generation coming up I feel the 2500k may bottleneck my next pair of graphics cards.
2. Looking to go with either two 7990s for quadfire or two 8970s for crossfire - I expect the 8970s to be around $700 and I can get a pair of 7990s for quad-fire for about $1500 right now. I know the thing about going with the best card but I can handle a multi-gpu configuration. The question I have is which I should go with. I am thinking that the 7990s would give me more oomph but would I get a VRAM bottleneck? On Crysis 3 my VRAM may already be bnecking me as it's the only game I can't max at a good framerate, and I only game in 1080p.
3. I wonder about my motherboard. It is the Asus P8Z68-V pro, and it only has a two PCIe slots, one 16x and the other 8x - would that handle two dual cards if I went with the two 7990s or would I have to upgrade that also?
4. My RAM is weak. Yes, I have 16GB of it but it's 1333MHz - there are laptops out now with faster RAM. Should I dump it for 8GB of faster RAM (which may make overclocking my new CPU easier - less RAM)???
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
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