GTX780TI in SLI, r9 295x2, or r9 290 in Crossfire for 1440p?

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I really don't think watercooling is even necessary other than maybe for subjective aesthetic purposes or just outright preference for the GTX 9xx's, that is for the people who aren't going to unlock their bios and increase voltage thresholds beyond stock. Even then, I don't think a + .03.-05. mv to either increase the core clock or fully stabilize the core is going to generate more heat than what both reference and custom air cooling can easily handle with cards that weren't a bad luck in the draw (i.e. poor TIM application, alignment of the heatsink, etc).

Whatever you get, 4gb of vram will provide more longevity than 3 gb's. With 970's for SLI and the pretty much non-existent price gap between the 290's and the 970's with all the...
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Brendan250

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980 in SLI. It costs less than the 780ti, but performs slightly better. It would also give you access to Nvidia's new technologies that are only compatible with newer cards.
 
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GTX 980 in SLi. It outperforms all the above options at a very low power draw so don't even bother about it anymore! Just get the two 980s ( Even a single would be enough, but since you can.)
 
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The problem there is theres absolutely no watercooling support for them yet and thats probably going to take 1-2 months... im a very impatient person and am very excited to buy this computer so that doesnt work for me :/
 
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Again, no watercooling support which is what my rig is going to be
 
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MeteorsRaining

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What is the monitor setup? You'd not gain much, at most 20-30%, from 3 way SLI.
 
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I would say the 290 in crossfire or 780 ti sli (they are down in prices have seen as low as 429 brand new). My friend had a 295 and returned it because the drivers were horrendous for it and in games it preformed worse than a 290x. Mantle is an api in games such as bf4 thief and star citizen that require less cpu power and gives you about 5-10fps more on avg with the high end amd. From my experience with amd and nvidia i recommend nvidia because of driver issues I have dealt with using amd. Also sli scales better than crossfire.
 
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Not really the point unfortunately... the watercooling is a staple of the build and mostly the reason im building this :D EDIT: monitor is the ROG swift 1440p monitor @144hz
 
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Noise, vibration, look, etc...
 
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SLI 970 to compete with R9 290 CF or R9 295X2, SLI 980 to compete with 780 Ti SLI, and SLI 980 air cooled will be cooler than SLI 780 Ti water cooled. SLI 980 would be quieter than SLI 780 Ti too, due to awesome new fan designs by MSI or G1 or soon to be launched ACX 2.0
 
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Is this only on bf4 and does it outperform all the other suggestions when enabled @1440p 144hz
 
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