680 SLI or 970 or 980

[Unexas.]

I want to know what would be the best proformance for the price. I am looking to upgrade my system. I have a 630 watt power supply so i need to take that into account. For my CPU i have an i5 3570k overclocked to 4.3GHz so i don't really know if it would bottle neck anything. NOTE(Currently i have a Noctua NH-D-14 rather large and blocks one of my 2 PCI express slots so if i went SLI the cooler would have to be replaced with the stock cooler.

 

I currently have a GTX680

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[Deletive]

970/980

[Speedbird]

970. Your PSU can't handle dual 680s and the 980 isn't for you.

[Shd0w2]

970 for price to performance, 980 for performance.

[Unexas.]

970. Your PSU can't handle dual 680s and the 980 isn't for you.

How is the 980 "not for me"?

[themaniac]

i don't think that psu can handle 2 680's but i would still go for the 970 because it has the best price to performance ratio unless you already have a 680 than that would be but again i don't think that psu can handle 2 680's

[Speedbird]

How is the 980 "not for me"?

Assumuing that you game on 1080p, the 980 is too much.

[Unexas.]

Assumuing that you game on 1080p, the 980 is too much

would it still work fine for 1440p or how big is the proformance hit

[Smooth Bunz]

970 for price to performance, 980 for performance.

I agree with this! 

I personally chose the 980 

[Altecice]

970 is more than enough for 1080p

[Zinqs]

Your psu is enough for duel 680's. But if you want pure performance go with 980. If you want price -> Performance go with 970.

[Unexas.]

Just to make sure will my processor bottleneck the 980 or 970

[MoDtEc]

would it still work fine for 1440p or how big is the proformance hit

 

970 is perfectly fine for 1440p even 21:9 as far as i know

Just to make sure will my processor bottleneck the 980 or 970

just no it will not

if you think about sliing the 980 we can talk about your cpu bottlenecking something in most games there

most games are more gpu demanding than cpu

[vlkn´]

I agree, the 970 is totally fine, 980 is "wasted" power, for now. 

Sli just gets the inside of your computer heated up and you need to buy a new psu.

You would save more money if you buy the 970 2gb(1080p gaming), If you are planning to game in 4k or use texture packs (4GB videomemory atleast)

I would prefer the 980 anytime.

[Unexas.]

Any recomendations for a 970 to buy? i am thinking of ASUS strix the msi twin frozer

[vlkn´]

Gigabyte, MSI, EVGA, ASUS

 

All of them are great, but don´t ever buy a reference design card (1 fan)

 

I´ve got the 770 gigabyte windforce, extremely quiet. Considering 

the 970 doesn´t create much heat, you can do nothing wrong with each of them, it´s all about design and 

some of them got a slight overclock. 

 

/ I have read negative comments about the zotac 970(loud), not the amp edition. 

[Jackbe]

Assumuing that you game on 1080p, the 980 is too much.

This is not necessarily true. A 120 or 144Hz 1080p monitor would require more than a 980 in some games.

For 60Hz 1080p, a 970 is probably fine.