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I agree that for gaming it makes sense getting the higher end cards rather than dealing with SLI, but my use case is password cracking that doesn't require five 9's uptime.
The GTX 1070 is 150W power consumption while the 1080 is 180W. Rather than get another case i'd just scale up the case size based on the number of cards - 2 cards ($100[0]) 4 cards ($200[1]), 6 cards ($400[2])
1200W PSU $300[3], riser cards $10[4] and then motherboard + cpu + SSD about $200-250 so it works out $700 base for 2 GPU system, $900 base for 4 GPU system and $1400 for 6 GPU (2 PSU's)
If you work that out with the card options the sweet spot is 4x 1070 GPU's for $1500. It really isn't worth spending $4k on cards to get equiv performance from Titan X's or 15-30% more performance with the 1080 (although power/performance is better).
[0] http://www.coolermaster.com/case/mid-tower-cm690-series/cm69... [1] http://www.corsair.com/en/obsidian-series-900d-super-tower-c... [2] http://www.miningrigs.net/?product=graymatter-6gpu-server-ca... [3] http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817139... [4] http://www.amazon.com/Fixable-Adapter-Flexible-Extension-Con...