d3smondlow

Hey...We almost have identical systems

I didn`t knew that you had 2nd 970 , you can use that. http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/guide-for-flashing-bios-of-nvidia-gpu.119955/ .

hook your monitor to iGPU and flash original bios in DOS mode.

Dont see much difference from win7 for me in performance after upgrading to win10.  2 way sli config too

Looks like you have your windows power settings to 'performance' mode.
If you want it to downclock when idle or lesser workloads switch to 'balanced'.
Edit: beyond that download Intel xtu and see what settings your chip is running at.

check the voltage in the bios

some users of giggy boards have reported incorrect CPU voltages (UEFI needs updating).
F7 is the latest update for that version.
either CPU-Z or UEFI investigation is needed to verify your issue a bit more.

You can use any comparible vBIOS with the cards. If they're both G1 gaming cards, they should work. I would suggest later flashing the custom vBIOS on the second card so it overclocks and is stable enough etc, but that's up to you.
 
I and a lot of notebook users use custom vBIOSes on our cards too (actually most of us in our community DON'T use stock vBIOSes), and often people flash one card before the other to make sure we don't brick anything, boot, check if working, then flash the second.
 
The only issue is that I can't predict how the voltages in SLI will work on the second card.

Alright thanks alot man  still waiting for my mobo... it takes so long to reach me

That sucks... they probably try to prevent people OC-ing too much that it will ruin the market of the 980s
Thanks for your info btw

Def not worth, get another G1 and overclock the snot out of both.