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660ti in SLI vs 7950 in Crossfire vs single 680

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I want to buy a new computer in the next 2 months.
My budget is about $750 on gpus and $2500 in total
I will be getting adequate power supply for the gpu I choose (850w or something) and I currently have a nvidia 230M on my laptop
Will be getting a 3770 with a P8Z77-V mobo, 16gb corsair vengeance memory.
My only website I can buy from is pcccasegear.com
I prefer sapphire, msi, evga and asus cards.
Not really fussed over AMD vs Nvidia
I will be overclocking
Monitor resolution will be 1920x1080 on a 27" or 24" 120hz


Thanks! :D 

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Graphics card Master

Extend your budget a tiny bit and get a pair of 670s in SLI. 660ti SLI is a bad idea because of the crippled memory bus, and 7950s in CF are a bad idea because AMD's multi-GPU driver support sucks.

670 SLI is the way to go and you can get it for just a tiny bit more ($800):
http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_i...

If you want to save some cash, get a nice 7970 and overclock it - it will be as fast as an OC 680 and it's cheaper.
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Yeah AMD's crossfire drivers do suck. Games that have glitches, bad scaling, or flat out don't work at 1080p (and these are just the ones I've experienced):
-Skyrim (poor and sometimes negative scaling, weird HUD issues with 12.7, increased CTD frequency)
-Max Payne 3 (occasional cutscene flickering and stuttering)
-Witcher 2 (game will not work with ubersampling + crossfire enabled)
-Batman: AC (poor to negative performance scaling)
Graphics card Master

Yeah the reference 670 is fine you just won't be able to OC it as much, but you honestly don't need to for 1080p gaming.

The 670 at stock settings is a fairly cool/quiet card that shouldn't give you trouble.

BigMack70 said:
Yeah the reference 670 is fine you just won't be able to OC it as much, but you honestly don't need to for 1080p gaming.

The 670 at stock settings is a fairly cool/quiet card that shouldn't give you trouble.


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