Dual GTX660s in SLI or (1) GTX770 4gb

all4spl

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Ok, so I rebuilt my PC recently but did not upgrade my video card. A long story short I had a GTX470 and it was dying, I had to buy a new card while I did the RMA process, and the best I could afford at the time was BestBuys EVGA GTX660 . I now have the funds to either buy another GTX660 or a single GTX770 4gb version.

My computer specs are as follows:
MSI Z87M Motherboard
Corsair Vengence DDR3 1600 (16gb)
Intel i5 4670k CPU
Corsair TX850 PSU
Samsung 250gb SSD
Corsair C70 Case

I have (5) Corsair Air Series fans, 2 are the performance edition the other 3 are quiet editions.

I have 2 Acer 23" LED monitors nothing fancy like IPS or anything just standard monitors they are the S231HL.

My typical usage is single monitor gaming, I play FPS games like CoD and upcoming TItanFall, as well as Diablo3. And I really want to run at max settings. With all this in mind, will I benefit more from doing SLI 660s or a single 770?

From the searching I did it seems to lean more towards the 770 but I figured why not just ask some folks.

Thanks for any input.
 

cdburner5911

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I suspect you might get higher frame rates, on paper, with two gtx660s in SLI, but I personally was never very impressed with SLI when I did it with two gtx560s, It just seemed to be more trouble than it was worth, and I personally was never able to get the 60-80%higher frame rate you would expect.
BUT, that is just MY experience, and that was several years ago, so perhaps things are a bit smoother now.
 

WeldonB8

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I too pondered this, I had one evga super clocked 3gb 660 and ended up with another identical card and SLI'd them. I'm am very pleased with the results. I run 1440 display and have been wondering how much improvement I would see SLI'ing two 4gb higher end 770's. but i guess thats a topic for another thread. I think the only way it would be worth it is if I sold both my 3gb 660's to pay for one of the 770's. Thoughts anyone?