Replaced GTX680 2gb SLI With gtx980 Should I Return it?

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Hello, so I decided to upgrade my gpus since the 2gb vram just wasn't cutting it at all anymore and I bought the gtx 980 earlier this morning. The card has already been shipped, but i'm having 2nd thoughts about returning it since I have been hearing a lot of bad things about the 980 like the fact that it underperforms compared to the 780 TI and doesn't necessarily even beat GTX680s in SLI by a big margin. I have also heard that it doesn't overclock well either :( . I'm just looking for some guidance here, the card will arrive to my house in 2 days, what do I do? should I return it while I have the chance? please help. Thank you.

Also do you guys think my system is fully compatible for the 980 in the first place? will I be able to use the 980 on this motherboard without problems?
current rig
i7 3770k @4.2ghz
MSI Z77a GD65 motherboard
SLI gtx 680 2gb (soon to be gtx 980 maybe??)
Corsair Vengeance 8gb memory
Corsair TX850w PSU


this is what I ordered if you're curious http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NT9UT3M/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
 
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according to Tom's hardware's own testing, the GTX980 is a plenty good option. however they don't have GTX680's in SLI on their benchmarks so you might ave to imply the performance by comparing older reviews. the GTX980 is definitely faster than the GTX780ti.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-970-maxwell,3941-8.html

as for overclocking, the reference clocks are roughly 1.2GHz boost and Ive read plenty of times of people hitting 1.5GHz on the core and even managing higher clocks on the RAM so i wouldn't call it a bad overclocker.


i would continue with getting the GTX980 personally. a single fast GPU is always better than two if the performance is relatively similar. SLI profiles are finicky and scarce at times, not to mention not all games get SLI profiles or support it.
 
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imho you should get a lot of information about your present performance (benchmarking your games, 3dmark, etc).
Install the GTX980 and benchmark all over again.
Compare all this information yourself. See if you are happy.
And know that AMD new generation is coming soon.
 
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I would totally do that, but I think Amazon's return policy is a little iffy and they might refuse to let me return it if I open the box. Otherwise I would have totally just waited to compare them and would have been an easy solution to my problem. Also I would never buy AMD, not because i'm a fanboy or anything but just because i'm already so use to Nvidia. I have never bought an AMD before.
 
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Well you bought a factory overclocked card, so you won't be able to increase it by as much as reference card. But it will be plenty fast at the stock overclocked settings.

Looks like a single GTX980 is roughly 60% faster then a single GTX680. So you are losing a bit of performance on very well optimized SLI capable games. But that makes sense basically GTX680 and GTX770 are the previous generation consumer flagship cards, and you had two.

I can certainly tell you I don't miss my pair of GTX580
 
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I actually bought the cards pretty much assuming that i'm going to get about the same performance, but the biggest thing that made me buy it is the Vram. New games simply DO NOT run well with 2gb Vram, which makes the gtx680 sli performance useless in general since the 2gb Vram just doesn't cut it anymore. It's not like i'm running multiple monitors either, i'm only running one monitor too and I still got problems with Vram in games.
 
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GTX690 is significantly slower then a pair of 680 in practice. They underclocked them quite a bit to keep the temperatures down.
 
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Thanks to the crap ton of ports that have been coming out lately, I don't think losing SLI capabilities is a problem especially since I have the 2gb 680s, which simply won't suffice since Vram requirements are usually sky high. Like I said before, I run one monitor and games still cap out on Vram, which ruins gameplay substantially. Vram was basically my problem and practically the ONLY reason why I bought this 980. I didn't know that you get OC limitations if you buy the factory overclocked versions, my 680s are factory overclocked and I was able to overclock them a bit in the past. Do you think I'm better off returning it and getting a non superclocked version of it?
 
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Not a limitation on the overclocking, it is just already overclocked. Meaning that at the intended voltage of the vendor, EVGA, that the GPU was capable of meeting their target clock speed. So the potential gains can be less. Each GPU is different, you could get one that overclocks very easily, or it could already be about as high as it will go.

 
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Well, I ran into a different problem today. I was running some benchmarks to try and compare my results with a system that has the same CPU and a 980 and I realized that my combined score is very very low for some reason. http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/5874444? and I'm suspecting that the CPU might have problems. Can anyone tell me what I should do about this??
 
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