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Am I being daft or smart?

Caporegime
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I have the spec in my sig and i'm thinking about the next upgrade.

It's looking like it'll have to be a combined effort of PSU and graphics card because if I get a new monitor (which more than likely will be a 1080p one) then my card won't really cope, my PSU is a Corsair 550w VX so any newer card will probably necessitate replacing that before or at the same time as I get the new card.

So this got me thinking, would it be really stupid (or smart!) to get a replacement motherboard that can do SLI, get a new PSU and then get another 460GTX?

I've generally shied away from SLI and crossfire as I've always thought a single card is best but SLI and xfire aren't emerging technology anymore and the majority of games support it without issue. The problem is I don't want to spend £200 for an extra 10 FPS above the 460GTX I currently have. I'd be looking for a decent boost, certainly 20FPS or better even after moving to 1080p. That probably means a GTX 570 or AMD 6950/70 I'd have thought? it's not being bought any time soon, got the Xmas overtime coming to pay for it all first!

Any thoughts and yes, money is an object, hence the thread!
 
Not sure if this is an option for you but why not flog it on members market/ebay then add some £££ towards a new card which probably won't need a PSU upgrade either.
 
I'm not sure what newer cards would run with my 550W PSU, although it is a good make it's about 2 1/2 years old and will have lost some efficiency I'm sure.

Anandtech bench for single vs SLi'd 460's shows an almost double increase, certainly 70-80% boost.
 
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