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Ditching SLI for 980 TI

Zaku77
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Is anyone else thinking about doing this? I've had 980 SC SLI since September, and I've never been happy with the SLI experience. There are way too many games that take little to no use of it, and fiddling with profiles is always annoying. Then there is the fact that scaling varies throughout the game, so even ones that do take advantage of it don't do so constantly. The fact that I can buy the Gigabyte G1 980 ti and get nearly the same performance without any of the issues and be guaranteed that it will actually be utilized by all games just sounds amazing. Not to mention that there is a bit more VRAM--which isn't really needed, but it's nice to have, of course.

 

tl;dr Anyone else ready to ditch SLI now?

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980 Ti is way to go. i have a reference one and im very satisfied with it.

Current Gaming Rig Specs


   CPU:    Intel Core i5 4460  --   GPU:   Zotac GTX 980 Ti Reference Card --   RAM:   G.Skill RipjawsX 8GB 1600 --  Mobo: Gigabyte H97M-D3H --  HDD:  1TB Western Digital Caviar Blue


PSU: Seasonic S12II 620w 80 Plus Bronze -- Case: Bitfenix Shadow --  Monitor: Benq RL2455HM 24"  -- Mouse/Keyboard: CMStorm Devastator

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to be honest, i've been considering a secong GPU, only for the reason the PCIe passtrough to virtual machines thing is on the horizon.

 

and to see the faces of my friends when i say i have two GTX970s, and didnt SLI them :P

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I already ditched 970 SLI and a 980Ti is coming in today :)

WOW STOP FUCKING COPYING ME MAN. Although I got myself the Zotac Artic one :D

Main Rig

 

Case: NZXT H440 White | CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K @5.2GHz | CPU Cooler: Corsair H80i Hydro Series | Motherboard: MSI Z97S Krait Edition | RAM: HyperX Fury White & Black Series 16GB (4x4GB) OC to 2133MHz | Graphics Card: Zotac GeForce GTX 980 Ti ArcticStorm | SSD: Intel 730 Series 480GB & Samsung 840 256GB | HDD: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200rpm | PSU: EVGA 750W Supernova G2 80+ Gold | Display: BenQ XL2420G & Samsung S20D300 | Headset: Corsair 1500 | Mouse: Logitech G700S | Keyboard: Corsair Vengeance K70 Silver RED LED

 XENON Build:  

 

Intel Xeon E3-1230 V2 @3.3GHz | Intel DZ68BC | Corsair Dominator Platinum 2x4GB 1866MHz | Kingston HyperX 3k 240GB | MSI GeForce GTX 680 | Fractal Design Define R4 Titanium Grey | Seasonic 520W 80+ Platinum Fanless

Office Build:

 

Case: Fractal Focus G White | CPU: i5-8600K | CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo | Motherboard: MSI Z370-A PRO | RAM: Corsair LPX 16GB-2666 | GPU: MSI GTX 1060 6GB GAMING X | SSD: Kingston A400 240GB | HDD: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200rpm | PSU: EVGA BT 450W+ Bronze

 

Phone

 

iPhone XS Max 512GB Gold

 

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