I want some opinions on what GPUs are good. Give me two examples of AMD and two examples of GeForce GPUs. And money is not a problem.
I ask because crossfire gets me worried. I'm thinking if one GPU would be better even thou i will spend more cash.
People getting worried about Crossfire or SLI setups
even being necessary is why I wrote the way I did earlier. Don't let people buffalo you into believing you need to spend money that is
yours, not theirs on such setups. We have no b***dy idea whether these are necessary or will even work out of the box.
Generally, one GPU is less than half the headache. Especially with a new game and SLI and Crossfire profiles that haven't been shaken out properly, it's a lot less than half.
Budget nVidia GPU: GTX 760 4GB. I catch flak every time I say this, but the 770's are a lot more expensive for only a fractional improvement. There are now 760's with 4GB, eliminating one of the 770's former advantages.
Top nVidia GPU: GTX 780 or 780Ti 6GB. Probably the best single GPU for the game, given the statements about nVidia GameWorks that were made.
Budget AMD GPU: R9 270x 4GB. These are a substantial improvement over the 7870 they replace, and with the coiners not bidding them out of sight anymore, they're probably the best bargain.
Top AMD GPU: R9 290 or 290x 4GB. These are probably the most performance per dollar you can buy. Whether they will run the game's eye candy as well as the nVidia cards is unknown.
An Intel Core i5 or Core i7 Ivy Bridge or Haswell, or an AMD FX-8xxx, is plenty of CPU to keep the graphics pipeline fed. Anything less, I'd be concerned, because memory bandwidth falls off below those.