Upgrading from 1080 to 1440 questions

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Mainboard-Gigabyte Z77X-D3H
CPU-i7-3770k
Video Card-MSI Radeon 7950 Twin Frozr III Crossfire @ 1.2v 1125/1400
16GB DDR3 1333mhz 4x4
Power Supply-Thermaltake Smart Series Modular 750w(+12v 62amp)
Display- Asus vg248q

In the next couple of months I want to upgrade to a 1440p monitor, I am looking at the ASUS ROG SWIFT PG278Q G-SYNC Gaming Monitor. http://www.guru3d.com/news_story/asus_rog_swift_pg278q_g_sync_gaming_monitor.html

I have looked and I cant seem to find any benchmarks for cf 7950's at 1440p for newer games anyway. I play a wide variety of games from bf4 to arma3 to skyrim and civilization and many others. I am wondering if my current setup will be enough to run at max or close to it at 1440p and if not I am willing to upgrade to maybe a 780ti and even sli the ti but I do not want to spend the money and go through selling my current cards if I do not need to. I do like crossfire and am in no hurry to get rid of it but I will do what I must if need be. And as you may have noticed with my monitor selection I'm aiming for 60fps+ at 1440p. Any suggestions or opinions and experience with 1440p would be helpful.
 
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Well, then i think you should go for the TI's since you would either need x2 TI or x3 non-TI later on in gaming. Tri-SLI should be badass, but the power/heat/noise/EVERYTHING...
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Well im pretty sure the 7950 CF will do the trick in the games you mentioned. It would have a hard time playing Metro or Crysis 3 though.

If you upgrade, i would recommend going for a 780 and use G-Sync to gain the lost performance from buying non-ti. Then you should be able to go SLI in the near future (based on you already having the money for a 780ti).

780SLI would probably be 40-35% performance increase.
 
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with money not being a huge issue would you still recommend going the non-ti route? I'm thinking about late 2014 and late 2015 games as well.
 
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Well, then i think you should go for the TI's since you would either need x2 TI or x3 non-TI later on in gaming. Tri-SLI should be badass, but the power/heat/noise/EVERYTHING would be a pain.

Single 780TI should do 60fps 1440p in everything else than Crysis & Metro right now. SLI would probably assure you for 2015.

Though still, the only real game that could benefit from a gpu upgrade from your list, is Skyrim (if you're adding mods), your old cards should do very fine in 1440p in all the other games you mentioned.
 
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