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Help me Choose?

smogsy

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smogsy

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So after this is finished
Project Mancave < should be done end of this month mid next month

looking at upgrading/sidegrade my 7990

Current PC (fairly good)
i7 3770k (Currently at 4.2 but can reach 4.6-4.8GHz stable with ease)
MSI Mpower z77
16GB 1600mhz Patriot Intel Extreme Masters
1x 256GB Samsung Evo SSD
1x 256GB Samsung EVO SSD
1x 128GB Crucial SSD
1x 3TB Seagate
Corsair HX850W

Current running 2560x1080 Main Screen 2x 1080p as 2nd/3rd

requirements
2560x1080 @ max or close to
Good with Mutli-Monitor

What am i looking for?
Quieter Idling
Less power idling
Cooler
High Vram
More Frames
i really like the look of Nvidia Tech where you can set a temp for it stay under to

dont mind AMD or SLI but would be nice to stay with 1 card save sli/xfire scaling
Like to keep it cheap for now? <800 possible?

What would you choose?

780 SLI worth it? or are ti that much better? really
290 Pros worthy upgrade?
 
If you're after a single card solution with lots of VRAM, and a great cooler these two are arguably the best out there:
YOUR BASKET
1 x Sapphire Radeon R9 290X Vapor-X OC 8192MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **OcUK WorldWide Exclusive** £599.99
1 x Inno3D GeForce GTX 780 iChill HerculeZ X3 Ultra 6144MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (C78V-1SDN-N5HSX) £399.95
Total : £1,009.54 (includes shipping : £8.00).


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The iChill coolers are known for keeping even a 780 at ~60C at full load, and the Vapor-X is probably the best cooler for a 290(X) out there bar watercooling. :)
 
He is happy with a sidegrade but to be honest for full on performance (when CF is working) all single GPUs are a downgrade.
 
If your after something with more vram you don't want a 3gb card as that's basically what you've already got so your only real options are 290, 290x, 6gb 780, Titan, or any of those in sli/x-fire.

Personally I'd take a pair of 6gb 780's

You could go with a pair of 4gb 770's and save a few quid but the 6gb 780's are a good deal with only a small price premium over the 3gb models.
 
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