gtx 780ti sli vs gtx 970

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Hi,

I am planning to upgrade my system to:
CPU: i5 4690K
MB: Z97 (MSI Gaming 5 or ASUS Z97-A or Gigabyte? Undecided)

I already have the following from my old system:
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 2x4GB 1600MHz
PSU: Cooler Master RS650W ( I know its crap )
I would upgrade to Seasonic M12II 750W if have to go SLI.

Now for the question, initially I had planned to get a MSI GTX 970 Gaming 4G, however right now where I live the cost of one ASUS GTX 780ti DirectCU II 3GB is 60% less than the cost of any GTX 970. So, would you guys recommend to get a single GTX 970 or Two ASUS GTX 780ti in SLI. I don't have any prior experience with SLI or CrossfireX.
I also know than most people would recommend to get a single more powerful card vs getting two lesser cards and SLIng them, but as 780ti is almost the same performance as a 970 (that is what I have understood from some benchmarks), which effectively makes it about 80% performance boost at a lesser price.

I don't upgrade every year, in fact my last build was 4 years ago (AMD Phenom II X4 965 with HD6950), and I don't plan to upgrade after this for at least another 3 years. I mainly use the system for gaming at 1080p (I might get myself a 1440p or better monitor later) and some video/3d editing (just start out).
 
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The Ti pulls a 4% performance edge over the 970.
What are you planning to run that you would need two for?

Overall, the SLI build would be far superior, you would simply be lacking some of the new features on the maxwell card.

(I like the Z97-A)
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The Ti pulls a 4% performance edge over the 970.
What are you planning to run that you would need two for?

Overall, the SLI build would be far superior, you would simply be lacking some of the new features on the maxwell card.

(I like the Z97-A)
 
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I would get a 4K screen soon, so would probably need two of 780ti as I would be keeping it for 3-4 years. I was planning to add a second 970 (or sell and get a 980 or what ever the current gen would be then) in 10 months.
I don't play multiplayer games, I mostly play the AAA titles and I like to play them at as high settings as possible, and I am not looking for 100s of FPS, 40 smooth frames a second is fine.
This huge price drop has quite confused me.

The new maxwell features, I only know about DSR and MFAA and the lower power consumption. Is there any feature that is worth paying more double for about the same raw performance.

Also, will the 500MB (plus the slower 500MB) of more VRAM make much of a difference?
 
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I would be getting the 780ti as the price point is just too good to pass up. Here GPU prices don't usually go down this low, they usually go out of stock before the prices come down. I am not too worried about Crysis 3, its is one of those rare games that is going to make a GPU suffer no whenever resolution are upped.

Also, have been think of just getting a 1440p @ 144Hz screen instead of 4K @ 60Hz, those 4K screens are quite pricey right now.
As for the motherboard I will be getting ASUS Maximus VII Ranger, its about $15 more than the others here. Hope their first budget ROG isn't just a Z97-PLUS re-skin.

Thanks for the help.

 
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