- Dec 8, 2013
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Okay so.
I live in South Africa, but I'm on holiday in America for the next two weeks and I'm planning on buying some computer parts off Newegg whilst I'm here. I want to get 2x 760 cards to SLI on my rig, but I also really want to water cool them (eventually I'll buy full card water blocks), so I've obviously have to stick to reference cards.
From what I've seen, the best idea is to get the 4Gb edition cards to SLI otherwise you're going to bottle neck your performance.
I've been looking into reference 4GB cards, Gainward, ZOTAC and EVGA all have Reference 760's with 4gb of ram, but supply seems to be few and far between for all of them save the ZOTAC 760's. Is ZOTAC a decent brand?
I've always gone for MSI or EVGA in the past.
I'd also like to know your opinion on the Reference cards with a watercooling block VS. Non reference 760's, like the MSI 760 gaming edition with 4gb of ram. Should I scrap the whole water cooling idea and just go for non-reference cards with a decent cooler?
Its gonna come to around 300$ (USD) per card, so I've got a budget of 600$ for the graphics card upgrade. Perhaps should I go for like a low range 780 or a single 770(with plans of future SLI?) but your reviews on 760 SLI vs 780 and 780ti both favour the 760's. I have a corsair 850W PSU so I dont think power consumption issues will be a problem.
My specs are:
I5-3570K
8gb Mushkin Enhanced PC12800.
Asus Maximus P67 Rog motherboard (I know its PCI-E 2.0, but all new cards are reverse compatible and I'll be buying a new Mobo soon anyway)
And the current card I've got is an EVGA 295FTW, which is very unstable (the dual GPU on a single card has not worked well for me)
Anyway, thanks in advance for any advice.
I live in South Africa, but I'm on holiday in America for the next two weeks and I'm planning on buying some computer parts off Newegg whilst I'm here. I want to get 2x 760 cards to SLI on my rig, but I also really want to water cool them (eventually I'll buy full card water blocks), so I've obviously have to stick to reference cards.
From what I've seen, the best idea is to get the 4Gb edition cards to SLI otherwise you're going to bottle neck your performance.
I've been looking into reference 4GB cards, Gainward, ZOTAC and EVGA all have Reference 760's with 4gb of ram, but supply seems to be few and far between for all of them save the ZOTAC 760's. Is ZOTAC a decent brand?
I've always gone for MSI or EVGA in the past.
I'd also like to know your opinion on the Reference cards with a watercooling block VS. Non reference 760's, like the MSI 760 gaming edition with 4gb of ram. Should I scrap the whole water cooling idea and just go for non-reference cards with a decent cooler?
Its gonna come to around 300$ (USD) per card, so I've got a budget of 600$ for the graphics card upgrade. Perhaps should I go for like a low range 780 or a single 770(with plans of future SLI?) but your reviews on 760 SLI vs 780 and 780ti both favour the 760's. I have a corsair 850W PSU so I dont think power consumption issues will be a problem.
My specs are:
I5-3570K
8gb Mushkin Enhanced PC12800.
Asus Maximus P67 Rog motherboard (I know its PCI-E 2.0, but all new cards are reverse compatible and I'll be buying a new Mobo soon anyway)
And the current card I've got is an EVGA 295FTW, which is very unstable (the dual GPU on a single card has not worked well for me)
Anyway, thanks in advance for any advice.
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