Go Sli with 660 Ti or wait for 800 series.

[jason87]

Evening,

My question is weather or not I to start shelling out some money towards new GPU and RAM or just sit tight and wait for the next gen of nvidia cards to come out? My main uses of my system are for running adobe programs, video editing, some 3D rendering and gaming.

I tend to slowly swap out parts of my build as they start to age. For example I ditched my old GTX 295 Co-Op for the 660Ti and recently retired my trusty old core i7-920 for a shinny new core i7-4770k. I am wondering if going SLI with another 660 Ti will be worth the money and also if my power supply can handle it with only 850 watts.

If it is better to wait it out I think I would invest in switching out my x3 4GB sticks of ram for x2 8GB of ram for a total of 16GB. Since my motherboard only has four ram slots it would make it easy to add a further 16GB down the road (not sure if 24gb would be overkill) for quicker video editing. So it all comes down to the following options:

Option 1: Buy another 660 Ti for SLI configuration followed by RAM upgrade
Option 2: Wait for 800 series to come out and get something more beefy (870 and higher range)
Option 3: Buy a 780 and maybe go SLI later once 800s come out and 700 series prices drop.
Option 4: Build monster system with SLI TITAN blacks with the money I don't have (dam it student loans why you take my money?)


Sorry for the long post and many thanks in advance,

Cheers

PS. Budget at the moment is about 550 USD


My current build:

Motherboard---->Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD4H
CPU--------------->Intel Core i7-4770K (not overclocked atm)
Cooling-----------> Corsair H100i hydro series liquid cooling
RAM--------------->Corsair Vengeance 12GB (3x4GB) DDR3 1600 MHz (PC3 12800)
Storage----------->120GB Crucial M4 CT128M4SSD (Windows 8 installed on this)
256GB Samsung Pro 840 (Adobe suite and games)
1.5TB Seagate Barracuda 7200 ST31500341AS (General Storage)
Power-------------->Corsair 850 TX
Monitors----------->Acer H243H (hooked up to the integrated motheboard integrated HD4600) Asus VG278 (hooked up to the nvida card for gaming and designing)

 

[chargeit]

I'd wait man. The 600 line will be 2 gen back once the 800's come out.

 

[chargeit]

Damn this site has been giving me issues when attempting to update things.

850w is more then enough PSU for SLI or Xfire.

 

[Eduello]

Your power supply is a high quality one so you won't need to get a new one.

The default recommendation is to always get a single more powerful card, but since your system is 100% ready for SLI, I'd say get a second GTX 660TI (that's what I will be doing with my GTX 760).

 

[JUICEhunter]

I had a 780 for two weeks and upgraded to a 780ti before my return period was over and can conform 780ti is a good bit faster, you can get a 780ti for $630 if you shop around and custom R290x for $580. Very worth it, especially if you can sell your 660ti. I was able to sell my 670 which is almost identical to your 660ti for $150 to a friend.