GTX 760 SLI or GTX 770? R9?

[ibex333]

I'm on the fence about what would be better for me...

I had a GTX 670 FTW LE which I sold for $270 recently. Now I have an opportunity to buy two brand new Zotac GTX 760 for $180 each. So I get SLi for $360.

I game on 1080p and not planning to go higher any time soon. Would this be a good deal for me?

I suppose I could also get a used GTX 770 for around $280 which would also be a decent upgrade for me. What would you do if you were in my shoes?

I'm also a little concerned about the SLi performance of my motherboard. (in my sig) It has 16x and 8x. I guess Sli would run 8x/8x. Would I still get enough performance to justify the investment?

Also, is my PSU enough to handle two cards?

 

[lehtv]

Two brand new Zotac 760 for $360? They outperform a nearly as expensive GTX 770 by 50% - hell yeah. PCIe 2.0 x8/x8 will not affect the performance more than maybe one or two percent, don't worry about it. Will you have warranty on them?

The only problem I see is your PSU. Upgrade it; it lacks the necessary connectors, and it's not a particularly high quality unit anyway, and merely 83% efficient or so. 750W would be optimal for running two 760's with an overclocked 2500K.

Newegg has a sick deal on a Seasonic 760W Platinum - $130 AP, $110 AR.

Sure, you could get a quality unit for cheaper than that, but it won't have 1% voltage regulation, full modularity, 7 year warranty nor Platinum efficiency, and with this promo going on, the difference in cost would be somewhat marginal.

 

[Teizo]

Two 760s in SLI are very fast. That is the set up I have. I average around 90fps in BF4 on ultra 'preset' (4xmsaa) @ 1080p...and only Crysis 3 totally maxed out and Far Cry 3 has my system seeing anything below 60fps.

And I have that PSU that lehtv linked...and it is top notch. I highly recommend it. But, in regards to power draw...the only time I ever saw 500 watts drawn from the wall was in Crysis 3 maxed out with my 760s at 1280/7000.

SLI/CF operates in 8x8. That is how it is.

Are those reference 760s or Zotac's custom version?

 

[blackened23]

SLI 760s for 360$? I'd be all over that. SLi is fine at x8/x8. By the way, the only chipset that can do x16/x16 is either x58 or x79 (natively). Besides which, dual x16 and dual x8 is the same in terms of performance - various websites have tested the performance difference and there is none. So you can use dual x8 and it will be 100% fine.

 

[SimianR]

Two 760's for that price is a great deal and as Teizo said will be very fast. You can't really go wrong for that price.

 

[Attic]

I really like the 760 SLI at that price.

I don't like OCZ anything, so that PSU would make me nervous in SLI. But that being said 760's aren't that power hungry so 600W quality PSU would be ok IMO. But OCZ, yuck.

 

[ibex333]

that was the sale today on newegg... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814500306

I was reluctant to buy was waiting for replies. By the time I was ready to buy they are already out of stock. As usual ; )

 

[lehtv]

That was fast. I think the Seasonic Platinum unit will follow shortly. Even if you dont go SLI now, I would still recommend grabbing it because $110 is a steal for it, and your PSU could use upgrading.

 

[Teizo]

that was the sale today on newegg... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814500306

I was reluctant to buy was waiting for replies. By the time I was ready to buy they are already out of stock. As usual ; )

I just put one in my cart. They appear to be in stock. For now anyway.

 

[ronss]

amd r9 280s and 290s seem to gone, not sure what happen to amd here...they forgot to make some....it also seems that some of the higher end video cards have went up in price....gouging the public......

i was at frys electronics, was going to get the msi gtx 760 gaming,,,,and bingo, they had the msi r9 270x gaming...it wat not even listed on there site....i got it for $209, so i saved some bucks....a tad slower than the 760, but still a pretty good video card,,,,of cours , not a r9 280x or gtx 770...if i has the bucks...and availability, i would have got the r9 280x.....if you ask me...the amd cards show brighter coolers than the nvidia cards....i notice that today with my r9 270x msi.....wow, the coolers pop out at me....