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So my whole life I have used AMD products and my Father uses also has always used them. I want to give the other side a fair shot. Right now I have an Fx 8350 paired with a Asrock fatal1ty Mobo. I want to try out an Nvidia product and am looking at the GTX 770 or 780. I think so, but these GPUs will work with my AMD stuff correct?

I don't want over kill but would it be better to run 2 770's or just get a 780? I have always wanted to do SLI/Crossfire. But I am not sure what would be better.

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Some programs don't support SLI, but that's mainly older games (which a single 770 will eat for breakfast so it's not a problem really) and the occasional fluke with newer games. For example, Total War: Rome II didn't support SLI at first, but it was added in with a patch later. New games that don't support SLI are rare though.
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Also the reason is AMD has lost a lot of my faith. In my opinion the 290X is better than the 780, but is way to power hungry and has less built in features.the Ti seems to beat out the 290x but is pricy as hell
 
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Those cards will work fine with your AMD system, no problems there.

When it comes to raw power 2 770s in SLI will beat the 780. You might (might, not definitely will) experience microstutter in some games with any SLI setup. It's nowhere near as bad as it was a couple of years ago though.
 
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Some programs don't support SLI, but that's mainly older games (which a single 770 will eat for breakfast so it's not a problem really) and the occasional fluke with newer games. For example, Total War: Rome II didn't support SLI at first, but it was added in with a patch later. New games that don't support SLI are rare though.
 
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The power requirement calculator I normally use is down atm, but MSI's calculator (http://www.msi.com/power-supply-calculator) shows that your setup with 2 770s takes about 740 watts max. So it'll work just fine with your current PSU and you'll even have some overclocking headroom, unless it's really low quality or just old.

This calculator is more accurate: www.extreme.outervision.com/psucalculatorlite.jsp
It doesn't work for me at the moment though.
 
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