Would you, could you, run 2x ASUS GTX1660s?

[Hexonx]

Long story short, one of my computers had a motherboard go bad, and I ended up with an extra ASUS TUF Gaming X3 GeForce GTX 1660 Advanced edition 6GB GDDR5 GPU + 16GB HyperX RAM - The MB is only a few months old and under warranty but I will build another machine with different hardware instead. 

 

I now have two of these:

 

https://www.asus.com/Graphics-Cards/TUF3-GTX1660-A6G-GAMING/ 

 

The motherboard is an MSI B450 Tomahawk Max

 

https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B450-TOMAHAWK-MAX

 

SLI looks to be going the way of the dinosaurs and will be replaced with Nvidia's NVLink, which this card doesn't support. In fact, this video card doesn't have an SLI slot at all (not to mention the MB isn't SLI compatible anyway), and I am guessing what we're looking at is a 'transistion card' from SLI to the NVLink. That said, can I run these two cards together in a machine I would use for gaming and streaming at the same time? I have the option to run 32GBs memory as well, but see no advantages since I don't do any heavy video or photo editing. 

 

My processor is a Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core for those curious. 

 

I might want to play some Diablo III and stream using OBS at the same time. I embarrasingly admit I have been out of the 'computer building' game for some time and maybe I could get some advice. Otherwise...I just got a bunch of spare parts lying around that I would like to use 

 

Thanks in advance. 

[Arrogath]

SLI has been stripped out of lower tier products, so I’m not sure how well those cards will work in tandem. Akimbo  cards is mostly just a benchmarking game these days, with a few exceptions. Maybe a multi-gpu supporting directx 12 title will benefit from two 1660 cards but I kind of doubt it

[Guest]

I don't see any advantages of running 2 of those video cards. 

For gaming, even IF those cards would support SLI, SLI is pretty worthless these days. Less and less games implement it correctly.

For streaming there's no benefit of having 2 video cards, NVEC encoder doesnt use up GPU recources and h.264 is all on the CPU. Your 2nd GPU would just sit there doing nothing.

[Purgent]

Don't bother.  Way too much hassle for the negligible benefit, if there is one at all.

[FloRolf]

Install both and use one for folding@home the entire time and game on the other one. 

[Hexonx]

I appreciate the time you guys gave with your advice. I decided I will put it back together after the MSI B450 Tomahawk (which keeps blue screening) from the other machine is replaced by MSI and I will use that as an OBS + chat server. 

 

Thanks!