What is the best option for me, SLI or Upgrade?

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Kavinsky

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Hello,

I've been trying to decide for weeks on what to do for my system and try to save the most money.
Right now I have a single EVGA GTX 660Ti SuperClocked 3GB, and it's a great card and not even a year old.

I've been wanting to upgrade for quite some time now and can not decide on whether to SLI my 660Ti, switch to a GTX 770, or completely switch to a R9 280x. The reason why I have the R9 280x as an option is because it works well with my FX-8350 (so I've been told).

Going with getting another 660Ti would save me an extra $200, but would 2 GTX 660Ti SC 3GB come close to comparing to a GTX 770 or R9 280x?

Thank you
 
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I'd say, keep what you have. An upgrade to a 770 would be a upgrade, but very small and not worth the money. A switch to 280x is again, small performance at $300, def not worth it. I'd even recommend not going sli, some games don't support it, it will generate a lot of extra heat and fan noise, and you might even have to upgrade your power supply to offer power/power connectors to be able to run sli.

As for what card works with your 8350, I have that same cpu and I have the evga 770 superclocked and I love it. Theres like no difference between which intel/amd and gtx/amd.

Your card should be playing games at high without problems now, so I recommend you pocket the money and save up, wait a year or two when your card no longer plays...
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Dblkk

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I'd say, keep what you have. An upgrade to a 770 would be a upgrade, but very small and not worth the money. A switch to 280x is again, small performance at $300, def not worth it. I'd even recommend not going sli, some games don't support it, it will generate a lot of extra heat and fan noise, and you might even have to upgrade your power supply to offer power/power connectors to be able to run sli.

As for what card works with your 8350, I have that same cpu and I have the evga 770 superclocked and I love it. Theres like no difference between which intel/amd and gtx/amd.

Your card should be playing games at high without problems now, so I recommend you pocket the money and save up, wait a year or two when your card no longer plays like you want, then upgrade and get a single better card.
 
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The two would likely be as fast, if not faster than the 770. But in games that are not SLI enabled, or do not have a great profile for SLI, you'll still get the performance of a single 660 Ti. I'd go with the 770, very strong solo card.
 
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Kavinsky

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Thank you! I really appreciate your feedback.

Now that I think about it it does make sense to just stick with the card I have now and save up for the future. And like you said I can pretty much already max out settings on just about every game I play now, guess I just need to hear it from another person :p

Thanks again.
 
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Dblkk

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no problem, was in same boat myself, just got GTX 770 like 3 months ago but about a month ago I was looking to upgrade to 780ti. Someone posted something similar to what I said to you, then I replied with something close to what you replied with. vicious circle.
 
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