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Okay, so I was looking through Amazon, eBay and Gumtree for video cards. I want to know, what would be the most powerful setup. I game triple 1080p mon's, I render and edit video and I design graphics. 

 

-Triple 770s

-Triple 680s

-Dual r9-290x's

-Dual 970s

-Single reference 980

-Single reference 780Ti

 

Please rank in order with most powerful first, least powerful last.

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go on single 980 if you can get

@TehMiik or wait for the x390

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Okay, so I was looking through Amazon, eBay and Gumtree for video cards. I want to know, what would be the most powerful setup. I game triple 1080p mon's, I render and edit video and I design graphics. 

 

-Triple 770s

-Triple 680s

-Dual r9-290x's

-Dual 970s

-Single reference 980

-Single reference 780Ti

 

Please rank in order with most powerful first, least powerful last.

dual 970's  ;) No dual 290x's

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Okay, so I was looking through Amazon, eBay and Gumtree for video cards. I want to know, what would be the most powerful setup. I game triple 1080p mon's, I render and edit video and I design graphics. 

 

-Triple 770s

-Triple 680s

-Dual r9-290x's

-Dual 970s

-Single reference 980

-Single reference 780Ti

 

Please rank in order with most powerful first, least powerful last.

Dual R9 290X probably if you do triple monitors.

The 4GB would help compared to the 3.5 GB usable VRAM the GTX 970 has.

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Dual 290x's. Hands down.

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Dual R9 290X probably if you do triple monitors.

The 4GB would help compared to the 3.5 GB usable VRAM the GTX 970 has.

SLI & CF brings you a new set of problems and you better of with a single card but high end one

I mean the titan x is x2 the price of 980 so... I would save my money and get a titan x or a x390 if its possible

titan x is in the price of x3 970 and I promise even 4 970 would not go near the titan x am I'm right ? (until dx12 will come and fix it all ) :P

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Always go with latest and greatest single, instead of multiple older/cheaper cards. SLI/Crossfire of old/cheap cards limits your upgrade path. Get 980 and add one more later if you need to. What you are going to add if you get 3*680s?

I am sorry for my english.

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SLI & CF brings you a new set of problems and you better of with a single card but high end one

I mean the titan x is x2 the price of 980 so... I would save my money and get a titan x or a x390 if its possible

titan x is in the price of x3 970 and I promise even 4 970 would not go near the titan x am I'm right ? (until dx12 will come and fix it all ) :P

4xGTX 970 wouldn't beat a Titan X, because you can only SLI 3 of them ;)

But out of these options, I believe that would be best for his scenario.

A Titan X may or may not beat it, but he was not talking about the Titan X (Plus, the Titan X is like 1100 USD, while dual 290X is like 700 USD)

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dual 970's  ;) No dual 290x's

 

 

Dual R9 290X probably if you do triple monitors.

The 4GB would help compared to the 3.5 GB usable VRAM the GTX 970 has.

 

 

Dual 290x's. Hands down.

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4xGTX 970 wouldn't beat a Titan X, because you can only SLI 3 of them ;)

But out of these options, I believe that would be best for his scenario.

A Titan X may or may not beat it, but he was not talking about the Titan X (Plus, the Titan X is like 1100 USD, while dual 290X is like 700 USD)

lmao in theoretical mode x4 970 :P

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Dual 290x

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Always go with latest and greatest single, instead of multiple older/cheaper cards. SLI/Crossfire of old/cheap cards limits your upgrade path. Get 980 and add one more later if you need to. What you are going to add if you get 3*680s?

No offense but posts like these make no sense. Don't tell someone to not sli, then tell them to get a single great card and sli later. Your contradicting yourself man.

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SLI & CF brings you a new set of problems and you better of with a single card but high end one

I mean the titan x is x2 the price of 980 so... I would save my money and get a titan x or a x390 if its possible

titan x is in the price of x3 970 and I promise even 4 970 would not go near the titan x am I'm right ? (until dx12 will come and fix it all ) :P

 

there are definitely issues that pop up here and there with Xfire/SLI, but I've yet to experience any real problems on the software end. Games that don't support multi-GPU generally aren't that demanding. Cooling, noise and power consumption are definitely problems if they are not addressed properly. Crossfire may end up having serious issues for a while with freesync, so that's a definite drawback.

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lmao in theoretical mode x4 970 :P

I'm sure someone's found a driver hack for it to work lmao ,

Op : dual 290x is the best budget solution

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Wait for the 390X. It will come with 8GB HBM and will be very futureproof. This is if you ever want to game at a higher resolution

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No offense but posts like these make no sense. Don't tell someone to not sli, then tell them to get a single great card and sli later. Your contradicting yourself man.

I am sorry for my english, sometimes it's hard to understand me. I don't mind SLI. I am saying there is no point of SLI old/cheap cards when you can get similar performance from a single card which can be SLI'ed later to increase performance even more.

I am sorry for my english.

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Since I already had a Zotac 780Ti, I went and got a reference 780Ti for SLI C: Thanks guys!

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