Advice Wanted

[ndaar]

I currently have an MSI GTX 770 2gig gaming edition.

With the recent price drops I am considering the following and would welcome some advice:

1) Adding a second MSI 770 2gig SLI @ £251.99

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-202-MS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1750

2) Adding an MSI 770 but 4 gig version SLI @ £311

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-208-MS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1750

3) Buying an MSI GTX 780 @ £399

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-209-MS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1341

I currently game at 1080p thought will upgrade to 1440p at Christmas. I have a 800watt corsair PSU. Will play battlefield 4 and most modern games when they come out.

I have asked in the 770/780 threads but didn't get any response.

Thanks in advance.

 

[MoodyB]

2gb vram won't be enough if you're definitely going 1440p, so it's either a 780, a 780 Ti or 4gb 770 sli.

 

[ndaar]

Thanks for reply moodyB, I did consider 4gig 770 sli, but that's going to cost me £600 quid. For £700 quid I could buy 780s in SLI

Wish id waited until the 4gig 770 was released before I built my new system only the 2gig version existed at the time

Maybe the best option would be a single 780 or 780ti for the mean time and try and sell the 770.

 

[MoodyB]

With gfx cards you can't always play the waiting game. There's always something better round the corner.

Personally I'd wait & see what the 780 Ti & R9 290 releases do to card prices over the next few weeks, with vendors doing deals, etc...

 

[Dicehunter]

I currently have an MSI GTX 770 2gig gaming edition.

With the recent price drops I am considering the following and would welcome some advice:

1) Adding a second MSI 770 2gig SLI @ £251.99

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-202-MS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1750

2) Adding an MSI 770 but 4 gig version SLI @ £311

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-208-MS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1750

3) Buying an MSI GTX 780 @ £399

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-209-MS&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1341

I currently game at 1080p thought will upgrade to 1440p at Christmas. I have a 800watt corsair PSU. Will play battlefield 4 and most modern games when they come out.

I have asked in the 770/780 threads but didn't get any response.

Thanks in advance.

You could always have a look in the MM for 780's *cough cough*

 

[ndaar]

You could always have a look in the MM for 780's *cough cough*

I don't have access to the members market or I would

 

[arc@css]

I think adding another 2gb 770 for 1440p would be ok.

 

[ndaar]

Yeah maybe best bet is add an other 2gig 770 as I wanted two of the games that come with it anyways. Only cost be £250 and the games I want would have been £60 so big upgrade for £190 pounds.

Then next year look to Maxwell for an upgrade.

 

[Saitex]

Thing is, if you add another 770, you will only have 2gb vram, and you will hit a limitation on bf4. The max I've seen so far was around 2.2 which is already above 2, and if you are planning to game at higher than 1080p resolution, 2gb definitely won't be enough. Your options I would say either 780, or wait till 780Ti gets released and buy it.

 

[Blindeagle]

Why not sell 770 and then get a 780? in a week or so as they will go down in price

 

[ndaar]

Yeah I get that Saitex Hence why I was asking in the first place. Just seems to be a lot of different opinions on Vram in battlefield 4 LOL.

Yeah Blindeagle maybe its best to wait for the 780ti release and then see about selling the existing 770 and grabbing a 780.

 

[blky]

to be honest i dont even think that the 780's will drop in price because the 780ti will be pushed into a price point between the titan and current 780s thats why the current 780s were dropped in price

 

[Saitex]

Think I saw Gibbo mentioning in one thread that it is unlikely that the prices will go down anymore than they have already, other thank OcUK deals, I think that the prices will remain the way they are now.