- Nov 19, 2013
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Hello!
I was recently looking into purchasing a 4k monitor to begin to play at 4k, however, it has occurred that even though the 780ti classified is a beast of a card it probably isn't going to be enough to handle 4k at an acceptable frame rate. Maybe it is time to sell it and go for a dual 4gb 290x setup? I'm making this decision now as I know full well that the 800 series cards are just around the corner and I would like to sell my 780ti before all the prices fall for around £500-£550. 2 r9 290xs will set me back around £750-£800, about £200 of which will be of my own money (the rest from the sale of the 780ti). I will get much better performance for a fraction of the price of buying another 780ti, and with 4gb of VRAM will walk through 4k much more acceptably. There are however 2 things holding me back. Firstly, the monitor I was thinking of getting was gsync. Now I know I can just change my selection but will I really notice the lower frame rates of the single card with gsync smoothing it out? Also I haven't heard much about crossfire performance, but I remember from when I was more into pcs that the last gen of amd cards were famed for having terrible crossfire reliability.
Any advice would be very helpful indeed, my specs can be found in my signature
(Just realised my motherboard isn't in the signature, it's an Asus Z87 Sabertooth)
Cheers,
Chris
I was recently looking into purchasing a 4k monitor to begin to play at 4k, however, it has occurred that even though the 780ti classified is a beast of a card it probably isn't going to be enough to handle 4k at an acceptable frame rate. Maybe it is time to sell it and go for a dual 4gb 290x setup? I'm making this decision now as I know full well that the 800 series cards are just around the corner and I would like to sell my 780ti before all the prices fall for around £500-£550. 2 r9 290xs will set me back around £750-£800, about £200 of which will be of my own money (the rest from the sale of the 780ti). I will get much better performance for a fraction of the price of buying another 780ti, and with 4gb of VRAM will walk through 4k much more acceptably. There are however 2 things holding me back. Firstly, the monitor I was thinking of getting was gsync. Now I know I can just change my selection but will I really notice the lower frame rates of the single card with gsync smoothing it out? Also I haven't heard much about crossfire performance, but I remember from when I was more into pcs that the last gen of amd cards were famed for having terrible crossfire reliability.
Any advice would be very helpful indeed, my specs can be found in my signature
(Just realised my motherboard isn't in the signature, it's an Asus Z87 Sabertooth)
Cheers,
Chris
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