Best Performance/ Dollar, best cooling and noise. Who wins?

[Xilo]

Hi,

For my new PC, I'm deciding on wether to go with the Nvidia GTX 770 SLI, or the Radeon 7990. The 770 SLI is about $100 cheaper than the 7990 and has a good reputation when it comes to SLI.

As for the 7990, it is sometimes faster, quieter (at least the advertisments say that), and has a decent temperature range. However, it has a bad reputation, and was discontinued. Most of the people I've seen have gotten duds, have cooling issues or noise issues, and some people hate the new 13.11 drivers.

Which is better? Which has better cooling? Which has the best performance? Performance to price ratio?

 

[Xilo]

IAMEXTREME is providing evidence. Do you have any evidence against his side?

He and I are on the same side, believe it or not. We're both telling you what we think is the best route for you. We would both agree that both paths will bear fruit, there's just a few small differences based upon our respective experiences. From what I can tell, he and I both have a plethora of experience. As far as evidence that the problems with crossfire are gone, other than my own experience every day with my two HD 7970s in Crossfire, I think I can dig some stuff up.
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/AMD-Catalyst-13.8-beta-microstutter,23776.html
13.8 is actually an older version. The current version is actually 13.9 (13.11 is the beta) so the microstutter issues were fixed awhile ago. I can attest to the fact that I experience no microstutter at all in my games. In fact, as was stated before, I am fortunate to have never experienced microstutter. In fact, I don't even know what it looks like. That 13.8 driver that ATi released uses special frame-pacing which completely eliminates microstutter and since I got my new cards after 13.9 was released, I never saw it. I'll be perfectly honest with you, if you go the GeForce route, you will have no problems. I would never say otherwise. All I'm saying is that if you go the Radeon route, you will also have no problems and you will pay a good deal less. That's pretty much the long and short of it.

+1 Totally agreed.

I picked Avro for his solution. Don't worry. You contributed equally. Consider yourself picked as a solution in my book