Now the question is two 960 or one 970
I'm back on the single-card bandwagon. Did the SLI thing for a couple years and towards the end it just annoyed me. Probably 50% of new release games ship with no SLI support, you have to wait on a damn patch or force it through Nvidia drivers(which is usually pretty unstable). Now, by the time you get a couple weeks past release, 90% of games work fine with SLI, but there's still that 10% that just flat-out never get SLI support. ID games most notably never support SLI, which I find odd since ID has always been known for being on the forefront of technology.
SLI became a hassle I wasn't willing to mess with anymore, so I sold off my dual 660Tis for a lone 970. It was really zero performance gain, other than in non-SLI compatible games, but is still worth it. I hated having to wait a couple weeks to get decent performance in new releases.
What kind of GPU power does it take to drive one of those new 3440 x 1440 monitors in games like MMOs, Diablo 3, witcher 3? I don't play any FPS and I have a MATX case and don't really want to have to go back to big ATX cases either.
Currently running a 1440p monitor off of a GTX 690 and it plays just fine. I find myself drooling over that ultra wide format though.
I'd estimate that dual 970s will get you a solid 30fps in anything you want to play at that resolution and often around 60fps depending on the game, but you're going to have to push on to dual 980s to get to the realm of 60fps consistently.
My 970 keeps me constantly in the 40-60fps @ 1440p in most new games on max settings (Far Cry 4, Dragon Age Inquisition, Shadows of Mordor, etc).
That widescreen monitor about ~70% more resolution than standard 1440p, so dual 970s *might* keep you near 60fps in a lot of games right now, but you'd probably need 980s to bee safe if you don't want to dip down below the 60fps mark, especially for games coming out over the next year like Witcher 3, dual 970s probably won't keep you at 60fps in that.
