HD6970 Crossfire set-up should i move to GTX970 or 980??

rebelwith · Sep 28, 2014

I am currently running 2 x HD6970 2gb cards and i feel that i am not getting the best performance (made even worse by lots of developers not configuring their games to work with Xfire from the start) Plus they are getting pretty old!

I currently run a Dell U27111 screen on 2560 x 1440 and want to game at this resolution.

With the new release of the GTX 970 and 980 i am thinking that the time could be right to move to a single card build. I was thinking that going for the GTX970 should be fine (as the 980 would be double the price for only 10% improvement and in that case i should just buy 2x 970) but i wanted to ask you guys

The rest of my specs are

Intel i7 950 @3.07
Sabertooth x 58 motherboard
10GB ram 5x2GB cmp6gx3m3a1600c8 (the cpu cooler prevents the 6th from going in)
Corsair HX750 w
Samsung SSD

Thanks for all your help

Thanks for all your help .

Joseph DeGarmo · Sep 28, 2014

One GTX 970 is not much of an upgrade, but two of them in SLI will be a massive improvement. However, your CPU at stock speed will bottleneck two GTX 970s, so either overclock it a lot or upgrade to a newer CPU and motherboard. In fact, an i7-4790k and a single GTX 970 setup is certainly enough for a 1440p display. Also, your RAM will need to be upgraded if your current set is 1066 MHz.

rebelwith · Sep 30, 2014

Thanks Joseph

I actually cover clocked the processor to 3.7 GHZ and the Ram is 1600 MHz . At what stage does the CPU bottlenecks the SLI cards?

unknownofprob · Sep 30, 2014

I'd wait for AMD's 20nm R9 390/X cards to come out, expected to be released sometime early next year though not confirmed. I am not willing to buy another R9 290X because I may regret it once I see these new suckers to be released, they should be worth the wait.

caj · Sep 30, 2014

Ur good to mainly go 4 970 you be safe there. Howhere can say about the 980. You see bottlnecks in mainly higher resolutions or mutiplayer or when the gameplay req higher visual fidelity.

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