Is the crossfire support on a H97 motherboard really worth it or should I get a Z97 board?

[bidomo]

I currently own a GA-H97m-Gaming 3 motherboard, and I was seriously thinking about getting dual RX480 cards, as I have x16 and a x4 PCIe, back in the day of the 8000 GT's I had a pair of 8600 in SLI, with a GA-M57SLI-S4 and I never noticed any benefit from having 2 cards (in SLI enabled games). I don't really know if it was because of my poor cards or what, but I don't know how is it working nowadays with SLI-Xfire, so I would really appreaciate some input on this matter.

 

[rgd1101]

screen resolution?

 

[octavecode]

I might look like the bad guy now but why not get a single gtx 1070 for the performance of 2 rx 480 and half the power consumption?
Don't get me wrong i really like AMD products, my 2 other systems are AMD based but i always prefer using a single gpu.
Multi gpu systems always have problems with drivers and games, ask any multi gpu user.

 

[bidomo]

screen resolution?

I would be getting a 1440p monitor, they're scarce around here, so I was planning on going to LA and get it, or go triple 1080p's.

 

[bidomo]

I might look like the bad guy now but why not get a single gtx 1070 for the performance of 2 rx 480 and half the power consumption?
Don't get me wrong i really like AMD products, my 2 other systems are AMD based but i always prefer using a single gpu.
Multi gpu systems always have problems with drivers and games, ask any multi gpu user.

Also thought about this, but would my Xeon E3 1220v3 be able to keep up with the 1070?

I was thinking about getting the 4790, or, maybe, get the 1070 and upgrade later to a 6700k

 

[octavecode]

You CPU is enough for a GTX 1070. No need to upgrade or change anything just get the gpu (or any other equal) and enjoy.