Another 970 or 980?

[Suribachi]

Currently I am using a single Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming overclocked to 1320Mhz for core, 3890Mhz for the memory, and stock voltage. I am currently using a 60Hz 1440p primary monitor I game on and 2 60Hz 1080p aux monitors. I use the aux monitors for browsing, teamspeak etc. I am thinking of expanding my setup to triple 1440p gaming some time soon. Would a second 970 G1 suffice, or should I get a 980 to run the main monitor and have the 970 run the aux monitors until I can get another 980?

My setup is found here: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/XppnJx

I am also going to be upgrading to a 4790k soon as well with a Kraken X41 cooler. Also any tips on safe voltage overclocking are great appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

 

[REALIllusion]

It depends on your needs.

If you run SLI, the cards will act like one, on the other hand if you run multi card without SLI, you can use each card separatelly for a specific task. Running SLI or not really depends on your goal, for gaming you probably want SLI, though some games are not compatible with it. I personally don't use SLI, because my rig is for professional purposes, and the applications I use can take advantage of each card individually. Also if you are in the rendering/editing business (or anything that uses GPU processing), you can use one card just for the monitor(s), and the other card(s) exclusively for your GPU intensive task.

 

[Suribachi]

Thanks I will go 980 and work my way up to SLI

 

[gokitty199]

Thanks I will go 980 and work my way up to SLI

can you wait a little while, probably june for the amd 300's to release and see what they have to offer?

 

[Suribachi]

I will definitely wait as the GPU upgrade is currently not in the budget that was spent recently on i5 to i7 and RAM upgrades, plus if AMD does pull the rabbit out of the hat and can outperform the GTX 900s without an old architecture that is OC'ed, NVIDIAs prices more than likely drop just to compete.