Which graphic cards?

[Richyyy]

I am in the middle of pricing up myself a new PC. Will be used for gaming, work and lots and lots of overclocking and benchmarking.

Currently I have this sitting in my basket.


YOUR BASKET
1 x Corsair Obsidian Extreme Professional Gold Bundle £519.97
1 x Intel Core i7-3930K 3.20GHz (Sandybridge-E) Socket LGA2011 Processor - Retail £459.95
1 x Asus Rampage IV Extreme Intel X79 (Socket 2011) DDR3 Motherboard £334.99
1 x Samsung 256GB SSD 830 Notebook/Apple Series SATA 6Gb/s KIT with Norton Ghost - (MZ-7PC256N/EU) £144.98
2 x Samsung Green 16GB (4x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C11 1600MHz 30nm Dual/Quad Channel Kit (MV-3V4G3D/US) £113.98 (227.96)
Total : £1,699.85 (includes shipping : £10.00).



I just can't decide on a graphics card, well cards. I have been looking at putting two of these in but then I kind of changed my mind after looking at a few reviews.

EVGA GeForce GTX 670 Superclock w/Backplate 4096MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-190-EA&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=2294

However looking at the prices of other 670s I just can't decide if I want to buy cheaper versions of the 670 and use 3 or look at the 680/7950/7970?

I don't really want to spend much more than the combined cards which is around £850 but I would be willing to if it isn't too much.

I didn't really want to spend more than £2500 (which includes a few cables etc) but that has gone out the windows by £100 already, so what is a bit more ey?

Really open to some suggestions, I am not planning to buy anything till next month so I do have some time to shop around etc.

I should point out also that at some point in the near future I will more than likely be going watercooling.

Thanks in advance !

 

[HankScorpio]

I'd drop the 3930k and get a 3770k, both perform similarly in benches, 3930k edging it obviously, but not x2 price of an edge. Put savings into x2 670s, 79xx's All good cards. 680 are hideously overpriced. I paid £300 from OcUK for my 7970 when it was on offer and selling the game coupon. You'd get two coupons for going xfire AMD, but driver's are a bit crappy at the mo I've heard for xfire. Not sure what the stability is like on these new beta drivers.

 

[Richyyy]

I'd drop the 3930k and get a 3770k, both perform similarly in benches, 3930k edging it obviously, but not x2 price of an edge. Put savings into x2 670s, 79xx's All good cards. 680 are hideously overpriced. I paid £300 from OcUK for my 7970 when it was on offer and selling the game coupon. You'd get two coupons for going xfire AMD, but driver's are a bit crappy at the mo I've heard for xfire. Not sure what the stability is like on these new beta drivers.

Really wanted to stick with 2011 so the components I have there are more than likely what I am going to purchase.

I have thought about saving a bit of money by dropping to 16GB of ram for now and using 3 of the standard EVGA 670 2GB cards which comes in around the same price...

 

[HankScorpio]

Oh yeah you want to OC it to death and I guess Ivy is a little limiting for extreme OC.

Not sure if Ivy-E are coming out soon though, might be useful to keep an eye out for this if you're not ordering right now.

x3 670s sound killer and would thrash a £900 690

Enjoy!