WhiskyHunter

Intel better starts offering more cores in their mainstream CPUs soon...

Number one, what is your budget ? Number two, what sort of design look are you looking for (color scheme and so on) Number three, you shouldn't worry about PhysX, your CPU can more than capable of PhysX, in fact in borderlands 2 running PhysX on a 3770K + a 7970 results in more frame rates than running PhysX on a GTX 680, so even with the Nvidia optimizations an AMD card + a CPU are faster . http://www.techspot.com/review/577-borderlands-2-performance/page5.html

Don't upgrade your monitor until you have enough money to upgrade your graphics card.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6862/fcat-the-evolution-of-frame-interval-benchmarking-part-1 http://www.anandtech.com/show/6857/amd-stuttering-issues-driver-roadmap-fraps

I recommend getting an HD 7970, it's faster than a 680 and costs the same as a 670, you also get 3GB of ram instead of 2 and a much larger memory interface, which gives the card a huge advantage over the 680 and the 670 with Anti Aliasing . The 7970 also overclocks extremely well unlike the 670/680 because both are voltage locked. http://www.pccasegear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=21322

AMD Xfire doesn't work/scale nearly as well as SLI. Also, SLI is more beneficial than Xfire because NVidia is hampered by low bandwidth but high stock speeds. SLI aleviates that issue and the faster clock speeds make SLI scale much better. 850/1200 @ 512Bit VS 1100/1500 @ 384 Bit 512 bit won't help rly much at all over 384 bit at this range. That is a myth, that's not how Crossfire/SLI work. Textures and shaders need to be loaded on both buffers at the same time, so the active buffer of 2 256 bit cards in SLI/XFires isn't 512, it remains 256. Same thing with the 650 Ti boost cards, the active memory buffer will remain 192bit because the memory load doesn't split between the cards, it actually doubles because the same load needs to go into both cards. Crossfire and SLI scaling depends largely on the game and this is evidently clear in Linus's Titan review as the SLI 660 Ti setup failed completely in one game while the Asus Ares II failed in another game. Numerous reviews also show that two 7970 Ghz edition cards in crossfire generally outperform 2 GTX 680s in SLI. Scaling in SLI isn't generally bad nor is Crossfire scaling generally bad , each is just not as good in some games as the other.

What the ? does it have 2850$ inside or something ? cuz that's the only way it would be that expensive.

Congrats man!

MSI just came up with a new HD 7970 Lightning Boost card clocked @ 1150mhz, supposed to be the fastest single GPU in the market right after Titan. http://www.itproportal.com/2013/02/14/msi-r7970-lightning-boost-edition-preview-fastest-hd-7970-yet/ http://uk.hardware.info/reviews/3926/msi-r7970-lightning-boost-edition-review-fastest-hd-7970-yet

That bios update should at least unlock the voltage in Trixx, backup your current BIOS using GPU-Z then flash using that BIOS, but since you managed an amazing 1200mhz overclocked I don't think you need to really !

By the way that's an incredible score compared to an overclocked Gigabyte GTX 680 Superclock .http://youtu.be/UcKWzVkgspc?t=6m56s

I think you should use one overclocking utility at a time to avoid conflicts.People have reported that Afterburner is the most stable at high overclocks. So disable CCC AMD overdrive & Sapphire Trixx leave afterburner , you might get better stability in games.

That's one big bleepbleep !