GTX 770 or 780 for possible future 27" and/or SLI-setup

Henrik Jensen DK

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I'm wondering which graphics card to get.

I'll be playing Battlefield 4, Titanfall etc., preferably on ultra or at least v. high settings - to begin with on a 144Hz 24" Asus monitor at 1920x1080 resolution, but I don't know if I'll upgrade to a 27" later.

1. Should I get a GTX 770 or a GTX 780?
In my country the 780 is $216 more expensive than the 770.

2. If I want to be prepared for a possible SLI-setup in the future, will the Asus Z87-Plus motherboard work for that?

The motherboard has these expansion slots:
2 x PCIe 3.0/2.0 x16 (x16 or dual x8)
1 x PCIe 2.0 x16 (x2 mode)
2 x PCIe 2.0 x1
2 x PCI

I did a search for 770 vs. 780 and read a bunch of the threads, but none of them said what was the best thing to do if you might upgrade to a 27" system later on.

I might also upgrade to a SLI-setup in the future to play future games that will out-demand a GTX 770 or 780 (whatever I end up buying).

Thanks!
 
Solution
I play Titanfall @ 1080p maxed out with v-sync on and for 60fps my gpu usage stays around 73% but has peaked as high as 92%, this is using a GTX780 @ 953mhz as I have not oc'd it yet.