Right now i have an R9-270x. and its playing all my games fairly well, thats to be expected right? i have no problems what so ever its really nice. however. i guess much like many who play skyrim with a "Good Enough AMD card" I modded skyrim to holy hell. 150+ mods and now I'm pulling frames on the 30s on high i couldn't run it on ultra anymore.
I looked at the GTX 770 causes its a card capable of running all games on ultra without a sweat. and i do have around 250 bucks saved up. it wasn't intentionally for an upgrade but now that i basically have all i need. its 250 bucks catching dust on my dresser. and i'll have enough for the upgrade if i sell the R9-270x which for some reason sells bloody quick. i looked at the classified edition from EVGA cause that was the model i wanted and i'd have enough for. and also i hear EVGA has exceptional customer service. but i didn't want to fork over extra on a GTX 780 i thought about grabbing something so i probably didn't have to upgrade for 2 years and I am going dual monitors soon for gaming hopefully.. i originally planned on grabbing an R9-290 but that failed when Crypto-currency raised the pricing to holy hell.
So Basically this.
The card is doing fine on ALL of my games with the Exception of Skyrim. which I do play a lot and the 30 frames plus or minus aren't irritating me yet. should i grab the 770? or just stick with the R9-270x and just "DEAL WITH IT" and save for something awesome in the long run
I personally wouldn't get the classified as I think EVGA charges too much for factory overclock. I would go for the normal 770 with ACX cooler, if you have the money I would get the 4GB version as well
Skyrim, even with mods in my experience, isn't graphically intensive whatsoever. Well, it does put a bit of strain on your GPU with some larger textures and HD mods, but generally the bottlenecks come in the CPU or RAM area since a lot of mods can add a lot of scripts that are run concurrently and not always in an optimized way.
If you have a 2nd monitor plugged in I'd recommend pulling up your GPU, CPU, and RAM usage so you can better identify what's bottlenecking your rig since FPS doesn't give you that information. If you don't have a 2nd monitor, just run em in the background and have them log your usage for 10-20 minutes. Should be easy to identify.
The only reason I question it being your graphics card is because I run a huge mod list as well with a lot of HD texture packs and other high def model replacements and I still get 50+ fps on my GTX570. Your 270x should have no problem really.
Here's a comparison between the two: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1043?vs=1037
Personally, I wouldn't go for it. You'll see an increase in most games, but especially skyrim. The real question is if you think it's worth however much you pay after selling your 270x.
I'd look at how much you think you could sell your 270x for, and then go from there.
I'd go for it. The Gtx 770 is a beast of a card and getting a 4gb card will help with all the mods. I'd get a 4gb Evga with the acx cooler. I have a 4gb gigabyte windforce 3 card and I love it. Gigabyte has been good to me. I had a defective motherboard and they sent me a brand new replacement board strait away. So they are pretty good in my experience (noticed you mentioned Evga costumer service).
The game is single-core, it's horribly optimized. GPU matters a bit when it comes to texture quality, but at some point the CPU is still going to bottleneck.
the problem is my case. i just moved from a bitfenix prodigy M to a Silverstone FT03 and well i would have to reverse the way my case is taking in air to compensate the 3 fans output from the GPU. for some reason a 2 Fan GPU seems to work fine i haven't had experience with gigabytes cards though.