GTX 780 SLI Should i go for it ?

RommeKorp

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Hello community i was wondering if its worth it to make the investment on a new card for my system:
Proccesor: FX8320: 4.7 Ghz
Mother: GIGABYTE 990 FXA UD3
GPU: 780 GTX Ghz Edition (Gigabyte)
RAM: 16 GB FURY RAM Kingston
PSU: Silent pro M2 720w Cooler Master

I play on 1080p and always use the best possible configuration in graphics, and im starting to having problems mantaining 60 fps on the majority of the newest releases.
Witcher 3 ultra without hairworks/distance of foliage high: above 60 fps most of the time
Battlefront Beta all ultra with TXAA: 60 fps most of the time
Batman Arkham Knight (unreleased version) i have it just because gifted to me via steam: less than 50 with gameworks activated

I had 2x Gpu once with two Amd 7850 and i was a little dissapointed with the poor support even on the AMD titles like Battlefield 4 getting stuttering or not scaling too well...in other forum they claimed that you should never make Crossfire or SLI with medium/low cards and always aim for making it with high end cards. So i have 2 choices
1.-Keep this card till Pascal or Artic Islands
2.-getting a new 780 card and expect to preserve that SLI for at least 4 years more

My doubts:

It scales properly ?
Is there a list of games that fully support this SLI?
Is future proof? Driver Legacy stuff maybe will mess with this SLI in 1 or 2 years according to certain founts
What is your experience with it if you are running one SLI of this cards?

Thanks for reading.
 
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Your CPU will bottleneck two 780's, you'd probably see no or very little performance increase in most games. I'm confused, you seem to be only purchasing one 780 but you currently don't have one in your system.

RommeKorp

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Hello ! thanks for the answer, but yes i have one right now, its detailed on my system specs its a 780 Ghz edition
 

Sorry, I saw Ghz edition and that made me read 7870. What kind of CPU usages do you get in games like Battlefront and Battlefield 4? I can imagine your GPU isn't maxing out and your CPU is, or nearly.
 

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Not at all the cpu never goes to the max or close to it, the GPU goes always between 97-99% yesterday playing Battlefront was on the 99% of usage.

 

Try your settings on the lowest and see how much of an FPS improvement you get, if it's not a big gain, the CPU will be bottlenecking.