   So why do I recommend this card? That some would argue is inferior to a 670? And at stock, they would be correct. I always go with MSI cards because of the cooler. The only problem is some of the newer 7950s are becoming voltage locked, I think the Sapphire 7950 base-model, I think it's called Dual-X is still voltage unlocked though and I believe the MSI one still is for sure as well (as well as using a 7970 PCB). Although there have been other 7950's at $250 recently, I use slickdeals alerts to keep on top of the Nvidia and AMD video card sales. Well it hasn't moved much since- currently $319 w/ Crysis 3 no rebate LOL. When I bought this card a year ago, it was $309 AR with 3 games. With that in mind I decided, personally, to go with a MSI R7950 3GB Twin Frozr. Personally I love to overclock and I think you might as well, judging by your i5-3570k (same card I have, very nice). Although my first question for you would be: how well does your current card overclock? or are you interested in overclocking? Because if you aren't then it becomes harder to suggest a replacement. If you are looking for advice on what to do, I would personally recommend selling your current card and buying a better single card solution. So the biggest weakness I see with your current setup wont become a strength adding another card. Adding a card in SLI will do nothing for this problem because they don't add their VRAM together, it just doesn't work like that. So it's really up to you whether increased performance in Skyrim is worth changing cards. Now with other games besides Skyrim heavily modded with textures- you won't have any problems with a 2GB card, especially at 1200p. That's pretty consistent with what I've seen with my own install. I've seen a few people posting performance screen shots on here lately, using a mix of 1k and 2k textures and they've had a bit over (2.1-2.4 GB) VRAM usage. At your resolution of 1920x1200 (which I run as well) you will be okay with 2GB as long as you cut back on your textures, but ideally you want 3GB or more.
In your case I would argue the biggest weakness of your card (for Skyrim specifically- as it's plenty good for other games) is your 2GB RAM. The biggest problem with running SLI is that besides not gaining 100% performance increase with each card, there are some benefits you wont see at all. Maybe you can find one at enough of a discount to make yourself comfortable with the performance gains, but I would advise against it.
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It's hard to say without knowing exactly which 670 you have, but since it's still from the latest gen (since the only 700 series cards we've seen are all re-branded GK104 boards) you aren't likely to find them at super discount prices quite yet, even on the secondary market. In your case however, I'm doubtful this is the case.
Now this can be off-set if someone is adding another older card to their setup in SLI rather than upgrading to a newer single card because the older card has depreciated in value enough to make it worth it. Even when it comes to one of the best (if not the best) scaling multi-card performers, the GTX Titan, you won't double your performance by adding another in SLI.
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This of course can vary from game to game, but it seems to be a fact with almost every big name game I've seen- just going through the patch history for Nvidia/AMD will confirm that dual card problems persist after single cards have been fully optimized.Īnother problem is that you will never achieve 100% performance increase by adding another card. So that's one inconvenience you will run into with a dual card setup. Usually when games are released there are problems with dual card setups and many of the patches I see are still fixing/improving dual card performance long after single card performance has been optimized for any certain game. Generally speaking you are always better off going with a single card over a two card setup (whether it's SLI or Crossfire) because a lot of games aren't optimized for it and some are never even updated to be. As Aiyen and Neo said, it's not really worth to SLI for Skyrim and really in general it's not the "ideal" way to go.
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