- Oct 29, 2013
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Hello everyone! First post here since a forum I used to go to for tech help kind of went under.
Aside from that, right now I have two Radeon HD 6870s in Crossfire and I'm satisfied with their performance however they're more increasingly starting to hit performance issues when it comes to more newly released games and also when it comes to games that use high amounts of VRAM.
In the future, around Christmas time I'm looking to get a new case, a new power supply and as well as (hopefully) a new video card. The case and power supply I'm getting sometime this month and during November while the video card for sure during the holidays. My budget is around $300 for a single card and about $400 if there are many more benefits in continuing doing dual GPU setups.
I want an NVIDIA because I had a 9800GT and before that went kaput, I really loved the driver software and the PhysX despite what many people may say about it. Another side of me wants dual GPU setups like SLI/Crossfire because of the raw performance but at the same time, I'm not liking the heat, micro-stuttering or some compatibility issues.
Should I: A) Buy a GTX 770 because it's NVIDIA which is what I want, and it's also around $329, B) buy two NVIDIA cards of a lesser power for SLI such as maybe two GTX 660s, 660Ti, or two GTX 670s, or C) Wait until NVIDIA releases their next gen cards since AMD has their R series cards.
PC Specs:
MSI Z77A-G45 Motherboard
Intel Core i5 3570k CPU stock clocks
XFX Radeon HD 6870 GPU in CrossFireX stock clocks
2x1TB Green SATA HDD in RAID
Dell 8GB RAM (4x2Gb) at 1033Mhz
Raidmax Hybrid 2 630W Modular Power Supply
Windows 7 64-Bit Home Premium
Aside from that, right now I have two Radeon HD 6870s in Crossfire and I'm satisfied with their performance however they're more increasingly starting to hit performance issues when it comes to more newly released games and also when it comes to games that use high amounts of VRAM.
In the future, around Christmas time I'm looking to get a new case, a new power supply and as well as (hopefully) a new video card. The case and power supply I'm getting sometime this month and during November while the video card for sure during the holidays. My budget is around $300 for a single card and about $400 if there are many more benefits in continuing doing dual GPU setups.
I want an NVIDIA because I had a 9800GT and before that went kaput, I really loved the driver software and the PhysX despite what many people may say about it. Another side of me wants dual GPU setups like SLI/Crossfire because of the raw performance but at the same time, I'm not liking the heat, micro-stuttering or some compatibility issues.
Should I: A) Buy a GTX 770 because it's NVIDIA which is what I want, and it's also around $329, B) buy two NVIDIA cards of a lesser power for SLI such as maybe two GTX 660s, 660Ti, or two GTX 670s, or C) Wait until NVIDIA releases their next gen cards since AMD has their R series cards.
PC Specs:
MSI Z77A-G45 Motherboard
Intel Core i5 3570k CPU stock clocks
XFX Radeon HD 6870 GPU in CrossFireX stock clocks
2x1TB Green SATA HDD in RAID
Dell 8GB RAM (4x2Gb) at 1033Mhz
Raidmax Hybrid 2 630W Modular Power Supply
Windows 7 64-Bit Home Premium
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