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Crossfire Vs Single Card Upgrade

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Currently got 2x 290, 1 aftermarket OC 1 reference.
Basically im looking to start a brief discussion with opinions as to whether I would be better served flogging the cards and getting a much better single GPU or not.
This stems from having quite a bit of crossfire issues and games running better on single cards for a good while after release.
 
Couple of things to consider, resale value on the 290s is not going to be great, however it will go some ways to helping with the cost of a new gpu.

DX12 is coming, it natively has support for multi gpu's, now this means it will be easier for devs to harness more than 1 gpu, it still requires work from the devs to implement however, but could help some ways towards xfire / sli setups.

Your 290's will be more than capable for a while longer yet.

However if you are going down the single gpu route, you are going to need to buy either a 980ti, TitanX or a FuryX, and none of them as a single card has the potential to be better than your 2 x 290's when working in xfire perfectly.

What monitor do you have? if you could get £250 or so for your cards thats half the price of a FuryX right there, while its not going to be better than your 2 x 290 cards, its going to be miles better than a single 290, and especially good at higher resolutions.

alternatively i would suggest the 980ti, the aftermarket ones are beasts like the G1, although not cheap at all, however are currently trading blows and often beating the furyX in single card scenarios.

I will say though, the FuryX is brand new and as a result has not had much in the way of drivers or any form of programs to unleash its overclocking potential.

If it was me? i would sell the 290's and buy the FuryX, its got an AIO bolted on which means extremely low noise and cool performance, and its got a lot of potential for overclocking. But a strong argument can be made for the 980ti as well.
 
Pretty simple really. Either Fury X or 980Ti. 980Ti is a bit faster at the moment but the Fury X has potential to catch up with better drivers. Price is not very different at the moment with Gibbo doing a deal with NVIDIA to have 980Tis at Fury X prices for a week. I had the 295x2 which is similar to your cards but I was not really happy with waiting a bit long on crossfire profiles to play new games.

Very pleased with the 980Ti and I don't really think performance will be much worse with a 980Ti vs 290s in xfire, especially as even reference 980Tis seem capable of hitting 1400MHz very often.
 
An aftermarket Ti or furyx would be the best choice. Both will run cool and quiet and use a lot less power than xfire 290's. The issue with any multi gpu setup is that your at the mercy of driver support.
 
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