GTX 880 or Second GTX 780ti

[SymphonyX7]

Why R9 290's? Some of the benchmarks were very poor vs GTX on most of the games I play.

I don't know what reviews you're looking at (I bet it's reviews from 2013), but at very high resolutions, the gap is much smaller. Not to mention the reviews featuring the old reference R9 290 and 290X cards are obsolete now because the custom cooled ones are very different beasts. In fact, the non-reference R9 290Xs are actually faster than the reference GTX 780 Ti. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/powercolor-pcs-r9-290x-graphics-card-review,3803-4.html. Since we're already talking SLI here, I'm not sure why you'd want to SLI a GTX 780 Ti anyway. For the record, they perform worse than an R9 295X2 and a CF R9 290X on average at 4K or triple 1080p resolutions. The gap between the GTX 780 Ti and R9 290X is much bigger in SLI/CF config at very high resolutions. Why else would you be going for such expensive computing solutions if you aren't gaming at absurd resolutions?

That GTX 880 doesn't exist yet. None of us here can accurately determine how much faster it'll be than the current flagships. Even so, there's no guarantee that it'll be of good value if they price it sky high. If you can't stop the itch and want to enjoy the extra power now, by all means get another GTX 780 Ti.

If you're worried that the value of your two (2) GTX 780 Ti will drop significantly when its successor is released, you should get rid of that GTX 780 Ti now and go for a CF R9 290X instead because it's both cheaper and faster. The depreciation cost will hit the two GTX 780 Ti far harder.

 

[southkrn]

Hmmm. You all have provided me some great insight. I think I'm going to wait until benchmarks are posted for some of the games I play, (crysis 3, bf4) and then make the decision to get 880 or 2nd 780.

The lame thing about Korea is, you can only buy GPU's that have been taxed heavily so you would pay around 30% more for ANY GPU purchased in Korea as you would in the states for the same exact model.