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1440p and a 980 are a bit out of my current budget. But I'm considering 21:9 1080 eventually. You think a 970 will be good for a while?

A GTX970 is an awesome choice for 1080p :).

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What would happen if I tried sli on my MSI Z97M-G43 motherboard. Would it even work? This motherboard has a 16x and 4x PCI 3.0 slot. I heard that SLI will not work on the 4x slot. Is this true?

Edit: would hyper sli work?

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It wouldn't work. 

 

SLI requires PCIE x8

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To make SLI happen you need to have at least 2 PCIe 3.0 x8lanes.

 

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i figured. I also heard of hyper sli. Would that work?

Never heard of it (just looked it up, but I didn't see anything where it was used recently/on recent cards).

 

The fact that I haven't heard of it does make me think it hasn't worked (on modern cards) in quite some time. 

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To make SLI happen you need to have at least 2 PCIe 3.0 x8lanes.

Never heard of it (just looked it up, but I didn't see anything where it was used recently/on recent cards).

The fact that I haven't heard of it does make me think it hasn't work (on modern cards) in quite some time.

Okay thanks. I guess I'll just have to stick with a single card. (This was the only mATX z97 motherboard with a blue/black color scheme)

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Okay thanks. I guess I'll just have to stick with a single card. (This was the only mATX z97 motherboard with a blue/black color scheme)

Seems like, but if you get a potent card like a GTX980 you can enjoy resolution with HIGH or ULTRA settings up to 1440p.

 

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Okay thanks. I guess I'll just have to stick with a single card. (This was the only mATX z97 motherboard with a blue/black color scheme)

You could go for a mostly black board with SLI support: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asrock-motherboard-z87mextreme4

And then just get the blue from blue LEDs, blue RAM, blue cooler...

 

EDIT: *derp* nvm, I misread what you wrote -- I thought you hadn't bought the board yet. 

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Seems like, but if you get a potent card like a GTX980 you can enjoy resolution with HIGH or ULTRA settings up to 1440p.

1440p and a 980 are a bit out of my current budget. But I'm considering 21:9 1080 eventually. You think a 970 will be good for a while?

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1440p and a 980 are a bit out of my current budget. But I'm considering 21:9 1080 eventually. You think a 970 will be good for a while?

A GTX970 is an awesome choice for 1080p :).

 

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You could go for a mostly black board with SLI support: http://pcpartpicker.com/part/asrock-motherboard-z87mextreme4

And then just get the blue from blue LEDs, blue RAM, blue cooler...

i could but I also can't be arsed to replace my mobo. I have a 350d case and it's a pain to swap motherboards in. Also I don't feel like relicensing my oem os.

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i could but I also can't be arsed to replace my mobo. I have a 350d case and it's a pain to swap motherboards in. Also I don't feel like relicensing my oem os.

Ya ya, I misread what you wrote. I thought you were saying you didn't have the board yet, but you wanted it because of the color scheme.

 

You could also go with a 290/x and XFIRE when you need more power (please don't already have a 970, because then I'll just feel silly again :S).

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Ya ya, I misread what you wrote. I thought you were saying you didn't have the board yet, but you wanted it because of the color scheme.

oh yeah it would be ridiculous to choose the lesser board because of color scheme. Admittedly, I should have probably gone with a board with more support but I didnt think I would ever want to sli. I might switch to amd when thier new cards are released so I could crossfire those.

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Ya ya, I misread what you wrote. I thought you were saying you didn't have the board yet, but you wanted it because of the color scheme.

You could also go with a 290/x and XFIRE when you need more power (please don't already have a 970, because then I'll just feel silly again :S).

Crossfire r9 290s and r9 285s stutter quite badly On 16x/4x

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