SLI

deathtoaster45 · July 26, 2015

I recently built my new gaming rig and made sure to order a motherboard that supports SLI, and I specifically ordered it that way so I can make my rig "future proof". I am going to get a second graphics card in the next few months and I was wondering if the graphics card has to be identical to the first one I bought and installed on my rig. I installed a Gigabyte GeForce GTX 970 G1 Gaming. Here's the link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00NH5T1MS?redirect=true&ref_=ya_st_dp_summary. Thank you

Vegetable · July 26, 2015

no, it doesnt. so long as its the same core and the same vram amount, you can sli an itx 970 with yours if you wanted to

Nexxus · July 26, 2015

you dont but looks nicer for sure.

it will have to be a 970 with the same amount of vram though.

Swndlr · July 26, 2015

You dont have to SLI with the exact same card, for example, you can SLI your G1 card with an ACX card.

The nice and easy thing about the Maxwell GPU's is that most of them only come in one memory capacity, so theres not much worry in that Though I would still only recommend getting another G1 card in the future because it will be much more appealing.