Dump SLI, or stick with it

[tintin82]

I recently added another 670 to my setup and have been impressed with the performance... in supported games. Many of the games I have dont support it, and it really annoyed me when i tried Rome TW2 to find it does not support SLI, and looked positively rubbish with my one 670 utilized.
So now with the imminent price drop of the 780's i am thinking about selling my 670's and just going back to one card.
Will one 780 run everything maxed at 2560x1440 at 60fps as my SLI setup does?

 

[tintin82]

I understand your frustration and Rome 2 seems to be very similar to Rome in the way it is utilized (very poorly). The CPU is just as important in that game and not sure how many cores it uses, as I haven't played it. What CPU do you have? and one 780 will not run every game at 60 fps on your 1440P monitor sorry to say.

I have a 2500k @ 4.6 ghz. Mhhh, maybe best that i stick with my SLI then, The like of Metro and FarCry 3 run amazingly and i would hate to take a step back if a 780 will perform worse. I just wish it was a technology that was 100% compatible with all titles, and scaled 100% all the time! COH2 is another title that i play, but at reduced setting due to no SLI support.

 

[tintin82]

As said above,a single 780 wont get you a solid 60 in every game. I have 2 and @1400p the more demanding titles will still drop under 60 but its a small price to pay for such a nice resolution. Have you thought about maybe selling the 670s and picking up a single 780 and when the prices drop add another? A single 780 will be more than playable and it surprised me how well it coped before I added a second

This is an option, however with the fact that SLI is far from 100% supported i doubt i would add another. I tend to play simulators a lot, and the extra VRAM would come in handy for FSX with all its addons.