GTX 970 Upgrade?

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I'm thinking about getting 2 gtx 970s for my system once the reference design comes out so I can use the blower style cooler. My question is, will my stock i7-4770k be able to handle them or should I OC it some?

My 2nd question is. Should I wait for a 8GB model? I know those cards will never be strong enough to use 8GBs of Vram but I believe they are strong enough to go over the 4GB when in SLI.

And my 3rd question. I have 2 gtx 670s in sli right now. My mobo runs them at PCI 3.0 x8. Will x8 be enough for the 970 or no?
 
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CaptainTom

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Everything you have is fine man. However I wouldn't get the 8GB models unless you are running triple-SLI in 4k. In fact, what resolution are you playing at? Are your 670's really not fast enough?
 
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I am running at 1080p but I like to use 2x MSAA a lot which really puts a strain on my 670s and I actually have to turn 2x msaa off. My 670s are the 4gb models and I go over 2gb a lot with most games I play without 2x msaa.
 
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Well have you tried overclocking the memory? I just ask because my 7970's with memory running at 1800MHz chew through MSAA like it is nothing. I can max out BF4 in 1080p at a constant framerate on my 96 Hz monitor. Granted 670's are noticeably weaker, but still...
 
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@CaptainTom, your cards also have a 384 bit bus where my 670s have a 256. Which the 970 also has a 256 but it has a lot higher clock speed plus it has a new design which makes it even faster. So I doubt a memory oc would help me at all.

@legend001523, I plan on selling my 670s. I should be able to get $250 for each. So if I wanted to do a single card then I would just get a gtx 980. But I want a sli setup. And yea a 970 can run the game on max textures. But I also want high aa to get rid of jaggys. And most of the time max doesn't mean mac msaa or tsaa or ssaa. It just means max textures. And I would need 2 cards to achieve that.
 
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I gotta back up legend here and recommend getting 1 card at a time. A single 980 will do wonders in 1080p. Then when AMD releases the 390X in 1-3 months prices should go down. At the very least you shouldn't need a second card for another year, and by then the 980/970 will be much cheaper.
 
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You do realize I will have less performance? My 670s will out performance a 980 or a 970. So that would be a downgrade for me at the start and I don't want that. See I was about to buy a Kraken G10 and a H55 for my 670s so I could OC them and get more performance out of them. But that was going to cost me $100 each. So now instead of doing that I can save that $200 I was going to spend. Sell my 670s on ebay for at least $200 each. Probably can get $250, but lets go with the minimum of $200. So that now gives me $600. That I have for a upgrade. I can either get 1 980 and have $50 left but have less performance. Or add another $60 to my budget and get 2 970s that would eat up a single 980 and ahow a good performance increase on my 670s. Honestly unless you have money to blow. A 980 is a bad purchase since a 970 is over $200 cheap and performance fairly close.
 
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I know not all games do. But the few games I have and play that don't typically aren't very demanding games so I don't have a problem with my 670 on them so a 970 should be able to handle them just dibe. And if I truly wanted 980 performance then I can just get the EVGA ACX 970 FTW which already has a high OC but still has enough head room to OC even more to = the performance of a 980.
 
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