best dual gpu setup for your buck?

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

If I was going to spend 2k on something I'd grab a Intel Xeon E5-2690 first. CPU speed over video games ftw.

Pretty sure a 2500K is just as fast, or even faster than an E5-2690 when talking about computer games. Don't they only clock to 2.8GHz?

[Nythion]

Yeah that website or at least that "benchmark" is so bad and needs to die in a fire

Check out this review on the 780 at 2560x1600

I didn't think it was that bad of a comparison to be honest. If I was on a $300 budget I'd probably grab that but since my budget is higher ($800-$1000) my options are more open. But if I can get 2 7970 ghz editions for $600 like one poster said I'm not even going to bother looking at other setups. $600 is pretty cheap considering I paid $525 ish last year for one 7970.

4 titans is the best you can get on a single machine

and the E5-2690 is not really a fast CPU

Yeah but the problem with that is, even if I could afford 4 grand on gpus my motherboard only has 2 pci-e x16 slots so the best for me (Since I'd have to upgrade my CPU and motherboard) would be two titans. That's kind of what I meant. The e5-2690 isn't worth the money? I've been dreaming about getting it for two months, but yeah never spent more than 3k in a whole setup before. This video card upgrade would bring me to the 4 mark almost so in order to get a e5-2690 I'd have to sell all the parts separate get maybe 2-2.5k for it and start fresh that'd probably be like a 5-6k build so nah not worth it to me. I don't make over 100k a year to make builds like that I'm just a fresh out of school software developer. I just dream like the next guy. I'll get a cpu upgrade eventually but for now what I have is fine for me.

Pretty sure a 2500K is just as fast, or even faster than an E5-2690 when talking about computer games. Don't they only clock to 2.8GHz?

The e5-2690 is 2.9 ghz unclocked and 8 cores, while the 2600k is 3.4 ghz and 4 cores. Big difference, but yeah 2k is kind of alot to spend on a cpu I was just dreaming.

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Yes, my comment was about single card not SLI

TBH, im not so sure anymore. Performance wise, yes. The 780 is the best card. But I quickly looked through those benchmarks from guru. And the 770 isnt that far behind in most of them on 1600p. I think at the moment the 780 is to expensive compared to the 770, but than again its the top card so you pay a premium for that.

It is difficult for me :P A case could be made that the 770/7970 is in a pretty good spot for 1440p/1600p gaming, pricewise.

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You can get a 7970 for about $100 less compared to the 770 and you get 4 games which may or may not have any value to you.

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I didn't think it was that bad of a comparison to be honest. If I was on a $300 budget I'd probably grab that but since my budget is higher ($800-$1000) my options are more open. But if I can get 2 7970 ghz editions for $600 like one poster said I'm not even going to bother looking at other setups. $600 is pretty cheap considering I paid $525 ish last year for one 7970.

Yes in anything where Crossfire is actually beneficial and for dual GPU I would pick Nvida any day but I agree ~$600 for CF 7970 is hard to pass up considering the 780 is like$650.

[Butler to Baby Sloths]

The e5-2690 is 2.9 ghz unclocked and 8 cores, while the 2600k is 3.4 ghz and 4 cores. Big difference, but yeah 2k is kind of alot to spend on a cpu I was just dreaming.

The Xeon processors cannot be overclocked at all. They are totally locked down to their stock clock speed. And as games love clock speed over the amount of cores, I would take a 4.5-5.0GHz overclocked 2600K (or 2500K) over a 2.9GHz Xeon any day of the week.