So lately I've been planning to build a new PC for myself to take to Florida when I go to Full Saill University, and I'm still deciding which graphics card is best for me, I'm planning to Water Cool it, as well as Overclocking it, depending on the temperature when I'm over at Florida, and planning to have two of the same graphics card.
But what I'm planning to do is have this PC a future proof, but for now I'm asking what GPU is best for me to overclock, Water cool, and for Gaming and most likely for school for me to use Game Development program stuff.
Lately I've been looking at 770 and 780 but I still don't know which one to get and same goes for 600 I don't know which series I should go between 600 and 700.
May I please get help, and thank you if you do respond to my request.
Generally, both series are the same. The 770 is the equivalent of the 680. In terms of performance values, the 680 has a slight edge in FPS terms.
However, the 700 series has fixed many of the memory issues found in the 600 series. Not only that, but we could see improvements in the 700 series through more driver updates.
I would advise going with the newer generation. Though, they are the same architecture, it is my belief that the 700 series will improve.
As for choice of card or "cards", you should match your GPU to your display. What kind of display do you have? If it is 1080p at 60Hz, a single 770 is plenty. Even without overclocking, you would probably max out the display in most games. Don't forget that the refresh rate (the Hz) effectively acts like a FPS cap. So 60Hz = 60FPS maximum.
A 780 is advisable for high refresh or high resolution monitors above 1080p.
I forgot to say this but I'm planning to buy another monitor, the monitor I have right now is most likely going to be for the work and such, but I'm just wondering, can I overclock one GPU for gaming and leave the 2nd GPU to normal since I'm plannig to use one Monitor just for gaming and the 2nd monitor just to be able to do other things while I play games
a GTX 780 beats allmost every card arround at the moment, except the titan.or Radeon 7990. but those cards are alot more expensive. So i would go for a GTX-780 if you can afford it. otherwise i would look up a Radeon 7970 GHZ edition, or GTX770 4GB edition..
Honestly, the second monitor will not use resources. Just use a single GPU and run both monitors on it. It will have no performane impact. It will effect your RAM more than your GPU.