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[Swegly]

So right now I have about half the money for another gtx670 to SLI with. I was planning on buying an 800 series card and then saving up for a 1440p monitor, but realistically, Im just a 14 year old who does not have an income so I basically rely on time to make my purchases. By the time Id even afford both of those things 1880p or whatever the next new thing will be out and It will be a continueous money pit. I was just wondering if I were to SLI my gtx670 2gb vram and only planned on playing 1080p would I have enough vram for future games? Also two 670s smoke a titan so how long will you predict it will last. The main reason I want to do this is because it will put an end to my constant thought of upgrading 24/7 and I could just focus on other things again. What do you guys think? Good Idea or bad idea?

[SAV1OUR]

So right now I have about half the money for another gtx670 to SLI with. I was planning on buying an 800 series card and then saving up for a 1440p monitor, but realistically, Im just a 14 year old who does not have an income so I basically rely on time to make my purchases. By the time Id even afford both of those things 1880p or whatever the next new thing will be out and It will be a continueous money pit. I was just wondering if I were to SLI my gtx670 2gb vram and only planned on playing 1080p would I have enough vram for future games? Also two 670s smoke a titan so how long will you predict it will last. The main reason I want to do this is because it will put an end to my constant thought of upgrading 24/7 and I could just focus on other things again. What do you guys think? Good Idea or bad idea?

sli 670 will be fine for a while ill bet you that you will still be able to play major titles in a few years on high/ultra settings 

[Swegly]

sli 670 will be fine for a while ill bet you that you will still be able to play major titles in a few years on high/ultra settings 

So its definately worth doing even with the 2gb vram?

[SAV1OUR]

So its definately worth doing even with the 2gb vram?

2gbs going to be find people still play with 1gb, the whole 6gb thing was nvidia just showing off 

[Guest GRRigger]

Fine, dont be crazy with AA, takes lots of vram, perf and bandwidth.

It wont be huge vram bottleneck, because mainly there are just instances of textures, but if you have like 8k skyrim textures then it will bottleneck.

For general gaming 2gb is fine.

 

Need benchmarks?

[Swegly]

Fine, dont be crazy with AA, takes lots of vram, perf and bandwidth.

It wont be huge vram bottleneck, because mainly there are just instances of textures, but if you have like 8k skyrim textures then it will bottleneck.

For general gaming 2gb is fine.

 

Need benchmarks?

Yes pls :3

Prolly gonna go SLI in a few weeks I guess

[Osmium]

I think a new monitor would be a better purchase given your circumstances. 144hz is my usual recommendation and if you buy a VG248QE you could upgrade to G-Sync at any time. Like Linus said a monitor is a worthwhile thing to invest money in because they will last a long time.

[Guest GRRigger]

Yes pls :3

Prolly gonna go SLI in a few weeks I guess

too bad i am going to sleep, just have to . tommorow i put down some.

[BigChimp97]

So right now I have about half the money for another gtx670 to SLI with. I was planning on buying an 800 series card and then saving up for a 1440p monitor, but realistically, Im just a 14 year old who does not have an income so I basically rely on time to make my purchases. By the time Id even afford both of those things 1880p or whatever the next new thing will be out and It will be a continueous money pit. I was just wondering if I were to SLI my gtx670 2gb vram and only planned on playing 1080p would I have enough vram for future games? Also two 670s smoke a titan so how long will you predict it will last. The main reason I want to do this is because it will put an end to my constant thought of upgrading 24/7 and I could just focus on other things again. What do you guys think? Good Idea or bad idea?

2Gb of VRAM should do you find for the next couple of years on 1080p just don't expect it to run 1440p, or high res textures well in 3 years time, if I were you I'd just sli the 670 should scale pretty well

[Swegly]

I think a new monitor would be a better purchase given your circumstances. 144hz is my usual recommendation and if you buy a VG248QE you could upgrade to G-Sync at any time. Like Linus said a monitor is a worthwhile thing to invest money in because they will last a long time.

Wait what my monitor is ok though.

[Guest GRRigger]

Wait what my monitor is ok though.

http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Video-Card-Performance-2GB-vs-4GB-Memory-154/

770 performance is still same to  7970, no matter 1 gb more vram from 7970, even with higher resolutions! Vram usage info can be misleading. At first i thought it would make difference in bf4 too, becase if there is more vram on GPU, game uses it. But that is not the case.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/battlefield_4_vga_graphics_performance_benchmark,7.html

 

 

As you know, If you have bigger textures like 2k for skyrim, 4k and even 8k, vram starts to matter. In addition to that, if you have 3 108p monitors, it also eat your ram. BUt you have only 1 so Also Anti Aliasing use lot of ram.

I will try to find some benchmarks or at least forums. But i will direct the interest in FPS rather than vram usage, since it can be misleading

( dump textures do not help performance, or at least not in BF4 )

 

With normal textures, 1k - 2k, vram doesnt matter.

 

 

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/palit-geforce-gtx-680-4gb-jetstream-review,1.html

 

http://www.overclock.net/t/1272610/2gb-vram-with-heavily-modded-skyrim-has-anybody-had-issues

 

so if you mod alot, and use anti aliasing, you will get over 2gb.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1401804/gtx-770-2gb-vs-4gb

 

Else just get 2gb. Not worth extra money at all for those cuple games you can mod to F*$k. Skyrim textures has to be downsized anyway, who wants 4k rock texture on a 1080p screen Unless you have some kind of fetish to look at the rock texture at close distance lol.