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Interesting, but if I'm bumped to 1440p, I assume a 770 + an SLI down the road would be worth it?

770 is 2GB VRAM anyways. At 1440p, two 270X will still whoop a single 770 to death, it even beats out the GTX Titan at 1600p, but down the road you could sell the two 270X's and get a better single card, possibly the next nVidia generation after the 970/980.

 

Updated my other post with benchmarks

Ello forums, I'm new here

Just a quick question, I'm planning on upgrading my PC soon, and considering Black Friday is soon this point in this time,  I have two options:
-Get a GTX 770 (2BG)

-Get ANOTHER R9 270x and Crossfire with my existing one.

Clearly the Crossfire option is cheaper, but is it worth the bang for the buck? I do keep things on a budget and I also plan on upgrading other parts aswell in my PC this holiday. What would be a better choice?

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-Get ANOTHER R9 270x and Crossfire with my existing one.

Clearly the Crossfire option is cheaper, but is it worth the bang for the buck? I do keep things on a budget and I also plan on upgrading other parts aswell in my PC this holiday. What would be a better choice?

If you're playing at 1080p then get another 270X. Two of them together give better performance then a GTX 780 in games that are Crossfire compatible. 

 

270X is a 7870 GHz edition, so your results will be even higher then these numbers

 

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Interesting, but if I'm bumped to 1440p, I assume a 770 + an SLI down the road would be worth it?

770 is 2GB VRAM anyways. At 1440p, two 270X will still whoop a single 770 to death, it even beats out the GTX Titan at 1600p, but down the road you could sell the two 270X's and get a better single card, possibly the next nVidia generation after the 970/980.

 

Updated my other post with benchmarks

Desktop: Intel Core i5 2380P (2400 w/o iGPU), MSI H61, 8GB RAM, 256GB SP610, 500GB WD Blue, HIS R9 280, Antec TruePower Classic 550W, Inwin MANA 134, QNIX QX2710, CM QuickFire Rapid, Logitech G402

 

Laptop: Toshiba Satellite L40D, AMD A6-6310, 6GB RAM, 500GB HDD, Radeon R4 Graphics, 14" 1366x768

 

 

Phone: iPhone 6 Space Gray 64GB, T-Mobile $60/mo 3GB plan

 

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Ello forums, I'm new here

Just a quick question, I'm planning on upgrading my PC soon, and considering Black Friday is soon this point in this time,  I have two options:

-Get a GTX 770 (2BG)

-Get ANOTHER R9 270x and Crossfire with my existing one.

Clearly the Crossfire option is cheaper, but is it worth the bang for the buck? I do keep things on a budget and I also plan on upgrading other parts aswell in my PC this holiday. What would be a better choice?

 Get another 270X. But remember, not all game support crossfireX or SLI. 

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