Have 760, should I upgrade to trade up to 770 now or buy second 760 later?

[jdlobb]

like the title says. I just built a new PC with the following specs

CPU: Intel i7-4770k
MB: Gigabyte Z87-UD3H
RAM: 16 GB G.Skillz DDR3 2400 (4x4GB)
PSU: NZXT HALE82 V2 700W
GPU: EVGA GeForce GTX 760 Superclocked w/ EVGA ACX Cool 2GB

Now, when I registered the graphics card with EVGA I found out they do a trade-up program where they send you a higher level card and you just pay the difference and send in your card, you have 90 days to take advantage of this. The caveat is that the upgrade options are limited to the basic level versions of each card with usually the lowest possible ram.

My 2 options I'm looking at are the 2GB models, one with the reference cooler and one with the ACX Cool. Both would cost me about $80 to upgrade.

So my original plan was to buy a second identical 760 a few months from now. But now I'm thinking of getting the 770 now, which would make it very unlikely that I do SLI in the future, as I'm not keen on spending another $330 for a card AND $120+ for a bigger PSU.

I'm also thinking that Nvidia might come out with another free game package in the near future, and my second 760 would also come with a couple of new games.

So, 770 now, or SLI 760s later?

 

[woltej1]

760 sli will perform a lot better than a single 770, especially a base one. the difference between a 760 and 770 is noticeable, but not worth it to throw away the performance of 760SLI, I say go that route. SLI has been fine tuned and is pretty solid now a days.