Help needed to replace Crossfire set up

rebelwith

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Hi guys

With all the new cards coming out i am looking for some advice about potentially upgrading/ moving away from Xfire.

I am currently running 2 x HD6970 2gb cards and i feel that i am not getting the best performance (made even worse by lots of developers not configuring their games to work with Xfire from the start)

I currently run a Dell U27111 screen on 2560 x 1440 and want to game at this resolutions.

My question is that can/ should i move to a single card solution like the Radeon R9-290X (or even a GeForce GTX 770) or will i be wasting my money with no (or potentially) less improvement. I would also really like to understand why as well to make sure that i can act once the right tech becomes available

The rest of my specs are

Intel i7 950 @3.07
Sabertooth x 58 motherboard
10GB ram 5x2GB cmp6gx3m3a1600c8 (the cpu cooler prevents the 6th from going in)
Corsair HX750 w
Samsung SSD

Thanks for all your help .

 

rebelwith

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ouch yeah i think i will hold on for a bit. is the gtx 780Ti worth thinking about or would that just be overkill at an inflated price (again i would wait for better coolers)