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Okay, so I recently did a couple of upgrades on my PC, and I got an MSI GTX 970, so I thought I'd get me another one for more performance, and because my next upgrade will be a 4K monitor

 

my question is, I have a Gigabyte H77-DS3H motherboard, and it says its crossfire ready, but not SLI ready, does that mean I wont be able to run the cards in SLI?

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Okay, so I recently did a couple of upgrades on my PC, and I got an MSI GTX 970, so I thought I'd get me another one for more performance, and because my next upgrade will be a 4K monitor

 

my question is, I have a Gigabyte H77-DS3H motherboard, and it says its crossfire ready, but not SLI ready, does that mean I wont be able to run the cards in SLI?

Only the Zs (Z77) are able to SLI, they need a 8x-8x PCI-e, only AMD can CrossfireX on a 8x-4x.

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Only the Zs (Z77) are able to SLI, they need a 8x-8x PCI-e, only AMD can CrossfireX on a 8x-4x.

 

Oh :/ okay then, I guess I'm getting a new motherboard with it too 

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Okay, so I recently did a couple of upgrades on my PC, and I got an MSI GTX 970, so I thought I'd get me another one for more performance, and because my next upgrade will be a 4K monitor

 

my question is, I have a Gigabyte H77-DS3H motherboard, and it says its crossfire ready, but not SLI ready, does that mean I wont be able to run the cards in SLI?

The sad thing about SLI is that nVidia needs to certify the motherboard for SLI, which costs more than Crossfire certification (Which just says that it has at least two physical 16x slots running at 4x).  Which is the reason why many budget boards have crossfire support, and not SLI. 

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Okay, so I recently did a couple of upgrades on my PC, and I got an MSI GTX 970, so I thought I'd get me another one for more performance, and because my next upgrade will be a 4K monitor

 

my question is, I have a Gigabyte H77-DS3H motherboard, and it says its crossfire ready, but not SLI ready, does that mean I wont be able to run the cards in SLI?

if you have the PSU, and not too worried about the heat I would definitely recommend a R9 295x2, or 980 Ti, or AMD new Fury X instead of GTX 970 sli. reason being is because I had 970 sli and I also play in 4k and let me tell you most games do use more than the 3.5GB vram and so I upgraded to a R9 295x2 for the 4GBs of vram

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if you have the PSU, and not too worried about the heat I would definitely recommend a R9 295x2, or 980 Ti, or AMD new Fury X instead of GTX 970 sli. reason being is because I had 970 sli and I also play in 4k and let me tell you most games do use more than the 3.5GB vram and so I upgraded to a R9 295x2 for the 4GBs of vram

Yeah but he is most likely using multiple 1080p or 1440p monitors

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if you have the PSU, and not too worried about the heat I would definitely recommend a R9 295x2, or 980 Ti, or AMD new Fury X instead of GTX 970 sli. reason being is because I had 970 sli and I also play in 4k and let me tell you most games do use more than the 3.5GB vram and so I upgraded to a R9 295x2 for the 4GBs of vram

 

I would upgrade to a 980 Ti, but I can't cause, I don't have the money for it, and I've seen Jayztwocents video and that made me just want to get a second one, for obvious reasons, and also, heat wise, I dont want a hot card, because I already live in the middle east, and with this type of temps in my country, I know for a fact I wont be getting the 295x2 even if I had all the money in the world :P but yeah :) 

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I would upgrade to a 980 Ti, but I can't cause, I don't have the money for it, and I've seen Jayztwocents video and that made me just want to get a second one, for obvious reasons, and also, heat wise, I dont want a hot card, because I already live in the middle east, and with this type of temps in my country, I know for a fact I wont be getting the 295x2 even if I had all the money in the world :P but yeah :)

I see, well if you are going sli 4k, I wouldn't play the newest Triple A titles in 4k 

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Yeah but he is most likely using multiple 1080p or 1440p monitors

 

Actually currently I'm using 1 1080p monitor, I'm not sure if I'm going for 1 4k monitor or 2 1440p @144Hz monitors 

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I see, well if you are going sli 4k, I wouldn't play the newest Triple A titles in 4k 

 

I will play them, but obviously not max them out, I'm not to big on looks, I'm more a performance type of guy. 

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Actually currently I'm using 1 1080p monitor, I'm not sure if I'm going for 1 4k monitor or 2 1440p @144Hz monitors

Once you have mulitple monitors you don't go back to one. I'd vote adding 1-2 1080p or getting 2 1440p. The 970s will perform with those well.

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Once you have mulitple monitors you don't go back to one. I'd vote adding 1-2 1080p or getting 2 1440p. The 970s will perform with those well.

I was thinking about doing that, but I don't have the space and i've heard that the bars in between are very annoying, but I would love to try that one day :)

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1440p 21:9 at a higher refresh looks a hell of a lot better than 4k imho.

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