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Budget (including currency): ~2000€ Country: Austria Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Games like: AC Valhalla, Red Dead 2, Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order, Cyberpunk 2077, etc., Programs: Photoshop, CaptureOne, Ansys, Comsol, Matlab; but the focus/question is on the gaming part Other details current setup: - monitor: ASUS ROG Swift PG348Q (100Hz, 3440x1440, 34'') - PC: GPU: 2x Gigabyte Windforce Gaming OC 1080TI SLI CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700x - stock cooler (AMD Wraith Prism) Motherboard: Gigabyte X470 Aorus Gaming 7 WIFI RAM: G.Skill Trident Z RGB 4x8GB 3200MHz CL14 GTZRX Main Storage: Samsung 970 EVO M.2 NVMe 1TB Storage: Samsung 860 QVO 4TB PSU: be quiet! Dark Power Pro 11 850W 80 Plus Platinum Case: be quiet! Dark Base Pro 900 Rev. 2 Case Fans: Front: 3xNoctua NF-A14 PWM 140mm (in), Top: 3xNoctua NF-A14 PWM 140mm (out), Back: 1xNoctua NF-A14 PWM 140mm (out), Bottom: 1xNoctua NF-A12 PWM 120mm (in) I want to fully use the capability of my monitor - so all games in 3440x1400 and always highest settings (Raytracing not yet due to 1080ti..). In Valhalla around 30-47FPS also Red Dead 2 with DX12 (screen flickers with Vulkan) My GPU (if SLI possible GPUs) runs often very hot (~78-90°C) (usage 95-98%) - newest Nvidia drivers allways installed. Also sometimes my screen freezes in AC Odyssey, Origins and Valhalla. Screen is stuck in last frame and nothing works, only forced shutdown... My CPU stay kinda cool (<60°C) with a low usage. - runs around 3800MHz - 4000MHz Should i upgrade my CPU and MB? or GPU? or both? Or any other recommendation? My budget is also flexible, but i don't think that a 5950X and a RTX 3090 is needed.. or am I wrong? Thank you in advance for helping with advice. You guys make a very awsome job. A lot of people, including myself appreciate what you guys are doing with feeding us information and recommendation; also here in Austria Best regards, Christian

will normal Msi GTX 1080 gaming 8GB work with Msi gtx 1080 gaming x 8Gb in SLI? pleaseee

So I’ve been gaming on my computer for a couple years now and just recently i had a problem where my second graphics card won’t show up, one day it was fine the next it wasn’t. Tried updating drivers, updated my bios, switching cables, and switching the cards to make sure the pcie slot wasn’t dead, it wasn’t, and both of the graphics cards work by themselves too. Since it’s water cooled on a custom loop, I got both of the graphics cards to show up before i assembled the system and put it back in but as soon as the completed system was together they both wouldn’t show up. I’m running two 970’s on an Asus Maximus VIII Hero with an intel i7 6700k powered by a 1000W Evga PSU on windows 10.

CPU: 3950x, about to upgrade to 5950x with Noctua U12A, D15S wouldn't fit with a 200mm fan on top and the CPU socket is too close to the top PCIe slot, so not enough clearance for GPU. Mobo: MSI X570 Godlike, only AM4 mobo with both SLI support and the correct PCIe spacing for the 3090s Memory: Recently changed to G.skill FlareX 3200mhz 2x16 CL14 (will post updated pics later), oced to 3800mhz 16-16-17-16-32 with ryzen dram calculator. FCLK is at 1900mhz Storage: WD SN750 500gb, Crucial MX500 2tb sata, WD4005FZBX 4tb HDD (featured in recent LTT video) in the hot swap bay GPU: 2x Asus TUF 3090 non-OC, same price as founders edition. Waited overnight with a friend at Canada Computers, he sold his to me at MSRP. Case: Cooler Master HAF XB Evo, also featured in the same recent LTT video PSU: Corsair AX1200i Platinum, it was the most powerful psu in stock at my local CC 2 Noctua 140mm A14 PWM fans in the front, 120mm S12A PWM at the back, 200mm A20 PWM on top. Had to use zip ties, fan wouldn't fit with the standard mount. Optical drive is salvaged from some acer prebuilt from 2008, didn't plug it in yet but looks nice. Using a Samsung RG90 ultrawide, 5120x1440p 120hz .

I currently run a gtx 980, which uses 2 6+2pin pcie's I found another 980 for $100. Anyway I want to SLI, But I can't help but notice I can only Fit 3 VGA cables into the power supply. The rest are ' Perif?' I did notice I can insert the 6+2 pin into a perif 6 slot. But then the other end of the cable is locked at 8 pins. How do you normally go about it? It is a decent power supply, But I just need to somehow get it add another VGA 6 pin so i can have 4 total Vga connecters to run these cards. Thanks! Hope that makes sense.

hey waddup my name is Wesley and I recently got a digital storm build that contains an ASUS X99-E WS motherboard, intel core i7-5960x, 32 gigs of corsair Dominator DDR4, power supply corsair 1500i, Tesla K20 (which I removed), and SLI on GTX Titan X, and currently I've had some problems with my computer in which while I game it freezes in certain games when SLI is enabled, but when SLI is disabled the performance is perfect, the games that I try to play with SLI and cant are Star Wars Fallen Order, The Witcher 3 wild hunt, DOOM and I don't know if it is because of some software that I need to configure or anything or if they are my temps or even if the computer was overclocked before ( they gave it to me for free, and wasn't used for 5 months straight) so no I am not the legit owner of it but the current owner of the computer and I've been trying to figure out what it is that makes my computer freeze as soon as I play my games, I'm a gamer in need so please help me figure out what is wrong with it because at this point I am going to give up seeking for help. (btw I already tried to do the Uninstalling and installing all drivers again and nothing seems to work)

So right now I am currently running a ryzen 5 3600 and a GTX 1070 for 1080p 144hz. My dad plays at 1440p however and is planning to upgrade from his gtx 1070 soon. He told me he would give me that card, so heres my question: can I SLI two GTX 1070's from different brands? (One being MSI and the other being Gigabyte) Thanks for reading!

I'm planning on buying a 3090, I'll explain. If you think I'm making a poor move here please let me know. I am obviously making some assumptions, please recognize that I have been in the tech space for many years and are making these assumptions based on what I have seen in the past. I do not shy from criticism, so please let me know if you think I've missed something. I currently have sli 980ti, overclocked to 1400mhz (40% OC). While many people claim that "sli is dead" my experience is quite the opposite. Essentially every major game release supports sli. On average I get 60-70% scaling, but I do get 95-100% scaling on some games such as Ark Survival Evolved. While some titles don't support sli, my experience is those are games that are so basic that you wouldn't need the extra performance anyway. For reference, my sli 980ti slightly outperform a single 2080ti. Now that I've skipped the 10 and 20 series, I am ready to upgrade. I would like to purchase a graphics setup that will last me until the theoretical 50 series at a minimum, but really the 60 series. While the 3080 is a good purchase, I would argue that it's actually a mistake in the long run. In the last 2 years, games have begun to dramatically increase their demand for vram. It is quite common that games use 6-9gb. In 2 years when the 40 series drops the 3080 will probably still keep up, but by the 50 series you will be in need of an upgrade. (i assume most enthusiast are no longer using 1080p, if you are, please do not buy a 3090) Performance: If 3080= 1 point of performance, we'll say a 3090 is 1.15 (I'm expecting 15%, the 10% leak is questionable at best) At assumed 65% sli scaling, a 2nd 3090 yields total performance of 1.15+0.75 = 1.9 with 24gb of vram A typical gpu generation yields a performance improvement of 25%. (The 30 series appears to be higher yes, but the 20 series was also lower.) 3080=1.0 performance, 4080=1.25 performance, 5080=1.56, 6080=1.95 performance (with each generation yielding 25% improvement upon the previous) Video Memory: (I make assumptions here based on past product releases) gtx780=3gb vram, gtx980=4gb vram, gtx1080=8gb vram, rtx2080=8gb vram, rtx3080=10gb vram, rtx4080=16gb vram, rtx5080=16/18gb vram, rtx6080=20/24gb vram Price: (I make assumptions, given that most cards are AIBs selling at $100-200 above msrp already I think these are within reason.) gtx780=$650, gtx980=$550, gtx1080=$600, rtx2080FE=$700, rtx3080=$700, rtx4080=$700, rtx5080=$800, rtx6080=$800 Comparison at 50series release in 2024/2025: A) 3090 now, with sli upgrade: performance 1.9 with 24gb vram - -Total Cost: $1,900 (Better performance per dollar, still more vram) B) 3080 now, with 5080 upgrade: performance 1.56 with 16-18gb vram - -Total Cost: $1,500 Comparison at 60series release in 2026/2027: A) 3090 now, with sli upgrade: performance 1.9 with 24gb vram - -Total Cost: $1,900 (Better performance per dollar, more or equal amount of vram) B) 3080 now, with 4080or5080 upgrade, and then 6080 upgrade: performance 1.95 with 20/24gb vram - -Total Cost: $2,100-2,200 ----A 3080 stands no chance of lasting until the 60series on its own. A single of my 980ti certainly couldn't have lasted this long. I game at 2k, and will likely upgrade to 4k at some point in the next couple of years. sli 3090s could last until 2026, a 3080 could not, and you would need to upgrade in between. This is why Nvidia took sli away on the 3080 and limited the vram to 10gb. They know you will have to upgrade, rather than buying another of the same cards and simply sli when you need a bump in performance. Anyway these are my thoughts. A mouthful to be sure. Thanks for reading.

Hey guys, I'lm really confused a bit here, I neeed some help, I'm planning to do an RTX 3090 SLI with and AMD x570, My probeme is the width of the card. Wich one is the best: ASUS crosshair VIII Hero or the MSI MEG GODLIKE x570, My first choice is ASUS, but I don't know if it has enought spacing beween the PCIes to put the two '3 slots RTX 3090' in SLI Can anyone HELP please ? Regards

Short question : Does the new rtx 3000 Series support SLI? Until now , i haven't found any information about it , and would it be worth it to buy two 3080 to get the maximum performance while gaming?

Can i sli msi gtx 1070 quick silver edition with msi gtx 1070 normal edition

I have currently have MotherBoard: Z97S Sli Krait Edition Cpu:4790k base 4.0GHz Ram:DDR 3 Hyper X 1867mhz 16gb GPU: 2x EVGA 980 SC in Sli An Im Upgrading to a MotherBoard: Z490-A PRO Motherboard Cpu: Intel Core i7-10700KF Processor (16M Cache, up to 5.00 GHz) Ram: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro DDR4, 3600MHz 2x8GB Kit X2 = 32gb total GPU: Gigabyte nVidia Geforce RTX 2070 Super Windforce OC My question is, is the Gpu change for 4k gonna be the same or is one gonna be better than the other?

Hello, thank you for clicking on my topic and maybe deciding to help, I´m having a little issue with my 2 1080Ti´s that are running in SLI when I try to play Destiny 2. When I´m usually playing I get around 50 to 75 fps on average, which is weird, because thats almost the same back when I only had one 1080Ti. I looked for the issue and saw that while being on a more hard to render planet, I only used 50 to 60% of my GPU´s while averaging around 60 Fps. I thought my settings were wrong or my SLI wasn´t even activated, but that just wasn´t the case. Then I tested it in Battlefield 4 and everything was great, both graphic cards were almost all the time at 85 to 95% usage. Is there a known error in destiny 2 when it has to deal with an SLI setup or is there a way I need to change some settings or fucked something up. Thank you for reading and helping me out if you are able to

I have two gtx 1050s and i wondered if could run them in SLI with different SLI auto as i again stumbled upon the LTT vid with the two GTX 1060s in SLI. I heared somewhere that the software no longer workes but im not sure because a also heard that i got picked up again. Is there someone hwo knows for sure?

Hi all. I am a bit confused with SLI. The last time I built a gaming PC, SLI was recommended, and in some cases needed, but today I am finding conflicting information. Some sources are saying that games no longer support it, and so SLI is only there for enthusiasts, and then I have seen others that say that game producers just as CDPR and Rockstar, do still support it, with varying results, though new releases usually take a couple of months from release to see the support. If I got myself an RTX2080 super, and got another one at a later date, will I actually see a boost in gaming performance, or am I just putting money down the drain? I want to get Cyberpunk 2070, when it comes out, and I want to be able to play it with RTX enabled, and all my graphics set as insanely high as possible, and not end up playing at 15fps. I also want to get a VR setup, and still be able to enjoy RTX with crisp smooth graphics, and high FPS.

Hi folks, My current PC parts are mentioned here: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/cvpyn7 I am trying to setup NVLink/SLI with RTX 2080ti and had the below doubts, would appreciate someone clarifying it out: 1) I have a Zotac GeForce RTX 2080 Ti Graphic card now and managed to grab INNO3D GEFORCE RTX 2080 TI TWIN X2 at a good deal, can I do a NvLink/SLI setup with these 2 GPU's? Zotac has 1665 Boost clock and Inno3d with 1545 boost clock, I'm assuming I have to run them both at 1545 Mhz if its compatible for a SLI which is fine. 2) My CPU is Ryzen Threadripper 2950x. PC partmaker and few other websites are suggesting estimated wattage of around 750-800W. I currently am using Coolmaster V1000 80+ Gold certified: https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog/power-supplies/v-series/v1000/ Will this PSU wattage be sufficient for my SLI setup? I'm not planning to OC GPU but I am running OC on CPU with Auto PBO setting and RAM is OC'ed. I also do have 4x 140mm, 4x 120mm fans, a fan controller installed in my Corsair 500R case. My current consumption goes to 600-650W at the max during high fps gaming. 4) Will I shorten my PSU life if wattage hits 850-950W during gaming? Can a PSU run at 80-90% load a few hours daily and function for 2-5 years ? 5) My current UPS (APC BR1500G) is rated 1500 VA/865W: https://www.amazon.com/APC-Back-UPS-Battery-Protector-BR1500G/dp/B003Y24DEU Will this be able to supply power upto 1000W? I really don't use it for backup purposes, I wouldn't want it to shut off power to CPU if it exceeds 865W. If it lasts even a few seconds its fine for me to shutdown PC manually. Thanks!

So I'm writing this post because I want to get the most out of what I have for my motherboard and PC. I don't know much about how PCs work in terms of hardware but it's very interesting and I'm trying to learn what I can from Linus' videos so that I can improve my own PC with confidence. My current issue is not so much as a problem but a curiosity, I want to know the benefits of using dual GPUs and if that would provide better performance for gaming. First off I would like to know if it's possible for my current motherboard and single GPU, I am using an ASUS PRIME Z390-P ATX with an NVIDIA GEFORCE RTX 2070 8GB GDDR6. From what I've gathered through various online sources so far, the 2070 is not capable of SLI due to it lacking the NVlink Bridge. What I want to I know is about potential work arounds, is there a way to make two GPUs work together without SLI and would it be worth the trouble? I really want to get the most out of my computer but I don't want to replace hardware just yet so I'd very much like to add on hardware to improve it rather than replace anything at this time.

Hey, with the pci-e 4.0 beeing rolled out by amd graphics cards have more bandwith to utelize. Could this be used to let two graphic cards communicate with eachother? So would this make multi-gpu configurations good again? Or more is there a potantial for it to become good again? Please share your opinion or maybe even insight with me, PS: If I my english is i bit strange please ignore that, english is not my first language.

Is one NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti equivalent to a two-way SLI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti x2?

SO I have been running my Tesla on BOINC for a while with no problems and then one day I decide I don't want to game on the ancient Quadro the pc came with (old Z440) So I bought a modest gtx1650 on deal and since then nope! BOINC will recognize the M40 but ignore it and use the gtx 1650, go figure? The M40 has more than twice the flops so I'm not sure why it would use the 1650. Huge fan of your youtube channel, keep up the good work! if it helps here's some info about my computer Xeon e5 1650v3, 32Gb Ram, windows 10, z440 with stock FMB1401 motherboard, Current GPU gtx 1650 4gb + M40 24gb, former GPU k620 2gb+M40 24gb All drivers were updated straight from the nvidia website. I even went in to the nvidia control panel to check off the 1650 for physx only, and it still ignores the m40! Is there anyway I can get the M40 to run on BOINC and have a card that can play games? I mean Nvidia really should let Teslas run on their own as they aren't for display or gaming. The board and Teslas allow for SLI, but how does that work? I'm new to the multiple gpu world. Thanks in Advance for any help you can give!! Mike Butt

So,basically I have a 1080 ti and a 1080p 75hz monitor.I am thinking of getting a 2k 144hz monitor and I wanna upgrade my gpu.I don’t want to get a 2080 ti because it is too expensive and not much of a difference so I thought of getting another used 1080 ti for about 300-400€.I heard that sli is kinda dead so is it worth the hassle?Does it even support games I wanna play like Escape from tarkov,battlefield v,rainbow six siege,red dead redemption 2?Or,should I just wait for the rtx 3000 series?Also,the cards would be really close to each other(milimeters) because they are the aorus ones.Would that make the temps skyrocket?What do you guys think?

Would I be able to mount gpu's in SLI vertically in the Enthoo Luxe 2 using the following Phanteks bracket or something similar? http://www.phanteks.com/PH-VGPUKT.html

About a year ago I picked up an i7 6700K and an ASUS Pro Gaming Z170 motherboard off a friend for $110. Seeing how expensive these components sell for used ($250-$300) is it worth selling them and upgrading to something like a Ryzen 9 3900x? I’m considering doing a build with 1080 Tis in SLI and I don’t want the processor to bottleneck them.

Budget (including currency): High/Don't care how much Country: Poland Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Training Residual Neural Networks, Analyzing videos in 2D, reconstructing 2D into 3D (DeepLabCut, Anipose), probably spike sorting (electrophysiology analysis) and possibly synced recording from 6-8 cameras in at least 30 fps (around 720p) Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): We have a setup with RTX 2080Ti and analyzing our data becomes very slow (we have 3 synced cameras, going for 6-8 in the future - synced during recording, primary camera used as trigger for secondary cameras). Hello, I'm a neuroscientist specifically working with 3D pose estimation and electrophysiological recordings in socially interacting animals. So our current setup for neural net training and video analysis is based around single RTX 2080Ti, which was fine for 2D data, single movie per animal etc. Now since we started experiments with multiple cameras and 3D reconstruction it has become painfully slow (like a week of constant analysis to get our data from all the movies from a single experiment). Though I know my way around computers, I have never build anything so specifc and complex. What I was thinking about was a quad sli of Titans RTX (for that much needed VRAM), AMD Ryzen Threadripper 3990X (is this a good choice?) and than problems start. As you may have guessed we don't care much for rgb and fancy looks. 1. What we need is a motherboard able to support 4 x Titan RTX obviously but we also might need an expansion card for usb ports (we use usb cameras, and each of them needs the whole bandwith of usb 3.0). 2. Is ECC RAM worth it and does it make sense for our use? Is it better to go for lower latency or higher clock speed? 3. With so much data coming from all the cameras, NVMe M2 SSDs are a must, plus some HDD(s) to put the data after whole day of recording. Since we can go for recording with compression we can use less disk writing capabilites, but I have no idea how cameras actually utilize cpu. Is it cores/threads/what heavy? 4. Since neural nets training and analyzing data using them is gpu heavy workload lasting hours upon hours (hopefully with the new setup, not days like it's now) they need exceptional cooling and that gets us to the last thing. 5. Cooling in general and dust-proofing. It's going to get hot in there and we cannot have the computer in a sterile/dustless environment, there will be animals, cage bedding, all this stuff flying around. (Though experimental rooms are temp controlled and it's around 22 degrees celsius) Every bit of help would be great, I'm mostly worried about the part with video recording. I know more about neural nets and how they utilize gpu than I know about what multiple cameras need to work in a synced manner for a longer period of time.

Does anybody know how to render one part of the screen with one gpu and the rest with another gpu i know its probably a stupid idea i just want to do it