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Hello i have this idea of buying a GTX 960 now because my budget is low but to get a GTX 980 in late 2015 can i run both card in one system

since i have dual monitor i plan to have my gaming 27' monitor connected the GTX 980 and the secondary monitor connected to the GTX 960

will it work?? and here so question i want to know 

 

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2.is it possible to just put it in SLI the 960 and 980 and connect both monitor in the 980 will it work or there is no performance gained?

3.can i have 2 GPU where 1st GPU(980) for my main monitor and 2nd GPU(960) for my secondary monitor which i use for browser.  

 

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Nope, this won't work

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We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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Hello i have this idea of buying a GTX 960 now because my budget is low but to get a GTX 980 in late 2015 can i run both card in one system

since i have dual monitor i plan to have my gaming 27' monitor connected the GTX 980 and the secondary monitor connected to the GTX 960

will it work?? and here so question i want to know 

 

1.above

2.is it possible to just put it in SLI the 960 and 980 and connect both monitor in the 980 will it work or there is no performance gained?

3.can i have 2 GPU where 1st GPU(980) for my main monitor and 2nd GPU(960) for my secondary monitor which i use for browser.  

 

I dont understand why you'd want toplug them into different cards in the first place since the one card has more than 1 monitor output

As for having 2 cards, yes you can, what some people do is use one card as a Phys X slave but that's about all you can do with it

You'd be better off selling it 

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1.above

2.is it possible to just put it in SLI the 960 and 980 and connect both monitor in the 980 will it work or there is no performance gained?

3.can i have 2 GPU where 1st GPU(980) for my main monitor and 2nd GPU(960) for my secondary monitor which i use for browser.  

 

you can use both, and hook each up to a different monitor no problem.

you cannot SLI them later. so it's best just to buy two of the same instead.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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Why dont you just save or whatever and get a single 980 and plug both screens into? Do you really need a 960 if you are going to go to a 980 so soon?

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I dont understand why you'd want toplug them into different cards in the first place since the one card has more than 1 monitor output

As for having 2 cards, yes you can, what some people do is use one card as a Phys X slave but that's about all you can do with it

You'd be better off selling it 

well i don't know what to do with the 960 after i get the 980 so i tout the its better to gave a dedicated card for my 2nd monitor :D  

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Rumours stated that DX12 would allow SLI/CFX between every card possible(like having a SLI/CFX between a 290x and a 970), but they're only rumours, so I'm insecure at the second one. Yes for the first and third questions.

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Why dont you just save or whatever and get a single 980 and plug both screens into? Do you really need a 960 if you are going to go to a 980 so soon?

well i want one now for GTA V but i dont have enough in my budget right now to get the 980 i cant wait 6 month to play a game i been witting 18 months now.

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well i don't know what to do with the 960 after i get the 980 so i tout the its better to gave a dedicated card for my 2nd monitor :D

you aren't going to see any improvements then. i think two 960s in SLI would be better than a single 980.

 

i advise you buy a second 960, hook both monitors up to it, and go SLI.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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Rumours stated that DX12 would allow SLI/CFX between every card possible(like having a SLI/CFX between a 290x and a 970), but they're only rumours, so I'm insecure at the second one. Yes for the first and third questions.

i believe the VRAM combo, but i don't believe this.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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well i want one now for GTA V but i dont have enough in my budget right now to get the 980 i cant wait 6 month to play a game i been witting 18 months now.

Then get a 960 now and then sell ur 960 and buy a 980 later on, other wise it will get very complicated and drivers will freak out

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you aren't going to see any improvements then. i think two 960s in SLI would be better than a single 980.

 

i advise you buy a second 960, hook both monitors up to it, and go SLI.

Really some people says that GTX 970 is better than GTX 960 4gb in SLI 

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you aren't going to see any improvements then. i think two 960s in SLI would be better than a single 980.

 

i advise you buy a second 960, hook both monitors up to it, and go SLI.

But he would not have nearly enough VRAM, GTA is suppoesd to be quite VRAM intensive I belive, even at 1080

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Then get a 960 now and then sell ur 960 and buy a 980 later on, other wise it will get very complicated and drivers will freak out

the drivers will not freak out. i once ran a radeon card and and two different Nvidia cards at the same time. the drivers know what they're doing.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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Really some people says that GTX 970 is better than GTX 960 4gb in SLI 

then it looks like OP needs to just get the 980 instead.

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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One single higher end GPU is always a better option than 2 lower performance in SLI, sell the 960 when you get the 980, use both monitors on the single card.

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why not sell both of them and get 970's in sli? :)

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1.above

2.is it possible to just put it in SLI the 960 and 980 and connect both monitor in the 980 will it work or there is no performance gained?

3.can i have 2 GPU where 1st GPU(980) for my main monitor and 2nd GPU(960) for my secondary monitor which i use for browser.  

 

 

yes

no

yes

 

It would be best to sell the old card when you get the new one, or SLI 2 of the same kind.

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