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Nefos

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Well hello there again

Thankfully I received a payrise, and now I can afford a new rig

My plan is to get a i5-4690k with a Z97 board (yet to choose), around 1KW PSU and go 3 monitor (2x full HD)
To deliver good performance, high FPS (and to tick a box in the PC bucket lists : ) ) I am thinking about 2 card config.
The price/cards I am thinking about are R9 290/x (will depend on price or sale) or something like 770/870/780(880 will probably cost a fortune) in a 2 set configuration

does the i5 4690k can run them with no bottleneck? (with oc)
are the AMD CF drivers still dodgy? what about Nvidia?
which one is a better config, 290 cf or 780 sli (same price range)?

This is going to be my first multi GPU rig, and I have no experience in them, only single card systems
 
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the 880/870 cards should land at roughly the same price points as the earlier 780/770 maybe 20-30 bux more at launch, a few weeks in prices will rise due to lack of stock then about 3 months after that assuming nvidia catch up with sales the prices will steady. so be ready the first few days of launch if your gonna get the newer cards as they will sell quick.

personally i think getting the newer cards is a better option because in sli there likely to consume as much power as a single 780 ti due to having better power distribution. this will have a good return on your power bills.
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the 880/870 cards should land at roughly the same price points as the earlier 780/770 maybe 20-30 bux more at launch, a few weeks in prices will rise due to lack of stock then about 3 months after that assuming nvidia catch up with sales the prices will steady. so be ready the first few days of launch if your gonna get the newer cards as they will sell quick.

personally i think getting the newer cards is a better option because in sli there likely to consume as much power as a single 780 ti due to having better power distribution. this will have a good return on your power bills.
 
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