[SLI] Gigabyte GTX 770 4GB vs EVGA GTX 780 3GB

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I am building my custom pc and haven't ordered any parts yet.

I will be using this to play games on Ultra on Nvidia Surround for 3x 1080p monitors.

I am torn between buying the 4GB 770s and saving money now and then in a year or so see what new cards are in the market, or going crazy now and spending about $300 something extra for the 780s and keeping them a bit longer.

I will be buying 2 cards for SLI.


These were the 2 I was looking at:


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125462&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=


Or


http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130951&nm_mc=AFC-C8Junction&cm_mmc=AFC-C8Junction-_-na-_-na-_-na&cm_sp=&AID=10446076&PID=3938566&SID=



My wife is still on the fence about me building a new pc so the sooner it is ordered the less I will hear what else we could spend my extra money on.

 

chugot9218

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I am torn on this as well, I have 2gb 670's and can hit the VRAM ceiling pretty easily. I intended to upgrade to a single 780 but was a bit disappointed to see it was only 3gb, not sure if they will come out with higher VRAM cards like the 4gb 670's or not, if they did I would gladly grab one, if not I will probably grab a 4gb 770 or two and wait it out. FYI I am personally not a huge fan of 3 screen gaming, it is kind of cool at first but you find that in general the extra monitors don't do much for you, especially in competitive games that don't want to give you an advantage because you can afford 3 screens. Best advice I've gotten and didn't take was to buy one high resolution monitor as my primary gaming monitor and just two cheaper 1080p's to flank it for productivity. My next purchase will be a 1440p monitor and the GPU's to support it for single monitor gaming.