970 SLI

[Fake Dragonite]

So I built a computer a year ago that, at its heart lies an i7 6700k clocked to 4.6 GHz and a GTX 970 G1 Gaming clocked up to 1404 MHz (Dang Gigabyte knows how to pick their chips), and while I love my computer, I feel like there's more to pull out of it, but I can't afford a shiny new 1070, much less a 1080 or 1080ti. However, I have been seeing 970 G1 Gaming cards going for <$200 on ebay, so my question is, would it be worth it to upgrade? Or is SLI scaling bad enough to just wait until I can afford a current gen gpu?

[mrzoltowski]

I had the same dilemma, upon further investigation SLI is still complete pants, some games benefit, some games dont, it's all over the place. So I saved up for a 1080 and bought one, relatively cheap MSI GTX 1080 Aero OC8. Much to my dismay a month after NVIDIA announced the 1080Ti and dropped the price by $100 of the 1080! GRRR

But now that I have a 1080 in there, I want to re do the whole PC, so saving up for something more high end.

[Spork829]

All depends on the games and any other applications you'll be running. If they stuff you play works with SLI, then sure. But I would definitely look into it because SLI support really is a mess.

[Sack]

SLI is on it's way out, only a handful of games will really benefit from SLI, and there will be issues like micro-stutter. In the future you'll see even less games support SLI it will probably disappear in a couple of years, and then you'll be sitting on some nice dead weight in your machine. This is from a gaming perspective though, I don't know what you use your computer for and you should probably telle us if you want some actual advise.

[Fake Dragonite]

Honestly my computer is mostly just a gaming machine/home base for programming, but I'd be lying if I said I don't go back to trying to push my card even harder from time to time, trying to get a better Time Spy score, and I'm also going to be doing video editing for a friend's YouTube channel.