MSI 770 4GB SLI vs Asus DCII R9 290 Crossfire?

[mcorish]

As the title says, which one would be better?

 

[deusimpervius]

R9 290 is a better card vs GTX 770, no doubt. But I suggest you to not going for the Asus, because the DCII is designed for nvidia cards that has bigger dies. Not all of the heatpipes make contact with the R9 290 core. I suggest you to get the MSI gaming/XFX double dissipation/Sapphire Tri-x (very long card tho)

 

[legend001523]

r9 290 is 780 calibre, so sli 290 is obviously the better choice, though you have to factor in that some games don't run very well on dual gpus and that amd have not as good drivres support for crossfire as nvidia do for sli

 

[Dblkk]

although the crossfired 290's do give better performance, its not by more than 5 maybe 10fps. But the 770 sli will run quieter, cooler, and consume less power by a fairly large margin. Nvidia also has better driver support and smaller things like shadowplay and game streaming.

SO performance alone, the crossfire 290's. But performance still held high and better all around, sli 770's. I have sli evga superclocks gtx 770's in my pc, and love the fact I don't need a 1000+w psu to supply them, nor do my ears ring from fan noise since my rig is right next to my monitor.

 

[mcorish]

I live in Canada, so im looking something that is easy to RMA if things go bad, hence why I picked Asus, Ive heard good and bad from 290s in general, I just dont know if the performance increase is worth the risk of running lower reliability. I do understand that some games dont have multi GPU support, but even then a single 770 vs a single 290, the 290 still wins.

My biggest concern I want performance but I dont want to have to RMA cards after say 4 months, I also heard the 290s run hot, especially compared to the MSI TF 770.

 

[geofelt]

Check the newegg reviews from verified owners of both cards.
Look at how many are in the 0 or 1 egg negative category.

My thought is that if you need dual cards, go with evga GTX770 or GTX780 cards with a direct exhaust titan blower cooler.'
Your case and cpu will stay cooler.
And... 4gb vram is probably not worth the cost.
Read this:
http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Video-Card-Performance-2GB-vs-4GB-Memory-154/

 

[mcorish]

Ive read up on 2GB and 4GB, and something I want to not have to upgrade for a few years, with the possibility of 4K monitors, Id rather buy more and not use it then buy less and kick myself for it.

 

[Dblkk]

Ive read up on 2GB and 4GB, and something I want to not have to upgrade for a few years, with the possibility of 4K monitors, Id rather buy more and not use it then buy less and kick myself for it.

Same here! Its probably not worth the added $75 a piece, but if in 1 year a game uses more than 2gb (even now titanfall uses up to 3) I don't want to have to rebuy cards when mine are still newer and fully capable otherwise.

But if plan is to push 4k, especially in a year or so from now, im not sure if sli 770's will cut it with more than medium settings. But that note, 4k for gaming isn't really all its cracked up to be, id rather high density/contrast 1080p ips gaming monitor with 120hz over 4k for gaming anyway. Only thing I need 4k for is video/picture editing, and then the fps doesn't really matter.

 

[mcorish]

To save the headache of SLI and crossfire problems and all that, it was cheaper for me to get a 780ti, single card, less problems, so, I'll go with that and when Maxwells come out I will get another for SLI