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Upgrading SLI

MastuhWaffles
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So I've had my 970 for like 3 or 4 years ago, and recently I noticed you can pick them up for about 100 bucks on ebay, I feel like it's time to give my pc some more performance, would this actually make a difference and be worthwhile to do? I have an 850W power supply in case I ever did something like this.

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Nah, due to optimization reasons you'll never get as much performance boost as 2 cards might suggest on computing for gaming. For about $250 (selling the current card) you can get a GTX 1660, which is 980ti like performance in all games regardless of optimization for multiple GPUs.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

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Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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5 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Nah, due to optimization reasons you'll never get as much performance boost as 2 cards might suggest on computing for gaming. For about $250 (selling the current card) you can get a GTX 1660, which is 980ti like performance in all games regardless of optimization for multiple GPUs.

I know their big set back was them scamming people out of the extra .5 GB, but I have't looked a the 1660 so I'll check it out.

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16 minutes ago, MastuhWaffles said:

I know their big set back was them scamming people out of the extra .5 GB, but I have't looked a the 1660 so I'll check it out.

I've seen the 1660 as cheap as 200 USD on Amazon. Might be a worth while investment over dual 970's. Plus you'd have to make sure your CPU and motherboard would handle dual cards. Not all motherboards are SLI certified despite having multiple slots. Running dual 970's would only yield maybe 75-90% more performance over one card depending on the game. A lot of newer games don't support or aren't optimized for SLI anyways.

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SLI will bring a lot of problems or even graphical glitches in some games. If you are fine with running some games on only one of those then you can try it but I think its not worth it. Oh and VRAM doesnt stack so you will still have the same amount. GTX 970 was a good gpu a solid 3.5/4 but you should replace it if you want more performance.

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