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Two GTX 950s, two GTX 960s, GTX 970

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Single 970 duh.

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Which should I do? SLI two 950s, two 960s, or a single 970?

 

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My Rig:

CPU: Intel i7 5820K @4.3 GHz; Mobo: MSI X99A SLI Plus; Cooler: Cryorig H5 Ultimate; RAM: 16GB HyperX Fury Black; GPU: MSI R9 380 4GB; Case: Fractal Design Define R5 Black w/ Window; SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 256GB and 500GB; HDD: WD Blue 1TB; PSU: EVGA 750W P2

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Monitor: LG 29UM57; Headset: HyperX Cloud II; Keyboard: Gamdias Hermes Mechanical; Mouse: Zowie EC2-A

 

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Haven't had any experience with GPUs. Thanks

My Rig:

CPU: Intel i7 5820K @4.3 GHz; Mobo: MSI X99A SLI Plus; Cooler: Cryorig H5 Ultimate; RAM: 16GB HyperX Fury Black; GPU: MSI R9 380 4GB; Case: Fractal Design Define R5 Black w/ Window; SSD: Samsung 850 EVO 256GB and 500GB; HDD: WD Blue 1TB; PSU: EVGA 750W P2

Peripherals:

Monitor: LG 29UM57; Headset: HyperX Cloud II; Keyboard: Gamdias Hermes Mechanical; Mouse: Zowie EC2-A

 

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970

Case: NZXT phantom CPU:I5-4460 GPU:MSI-GTX1070 Gaming X RAM:2x4Gb-DDR3-HyperX fury MOBO:Asus Z97-P HDD:Toshiba 1Tb 7200rpm PSU:Sentey650W

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I would go with an AMD R9 390!

Never do SLI unless you are doing top tier card.

Scaling is a huge issue with SLI and XFire works better, but I wouldn't suggest either.

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The rule of thumb is always to buy the single most powerful card you can buy. Afterwards, then you can ask if it's better to SLI or upgrade to the next best single card.

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970. never buy sli off the bat unless its the very high end, or one tier down from top end

Well technically the 980ti is the second level card from nvidia now. It really depends on the generation, as for the 700 series, as getting dual 770s wouldn't be great.

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Always buy the highest single gpu you can afford when first building unless your talking crazy money gpu £400+ so the 970

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Which should I do? SLI two 950s, two 960s, or a single 970?

 

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I wouldn't SLI anything under a 970, and that's a stretch. Get the 970.

System

  • CPU
    I7-4790K @ 4,7GHz
  • Motherboard
    Asus MAXIMUS Formula VI
  • RAM
    Kingston HyperX FURY 16GB Kit (2x8GB) 1866MHz
  • GPU
    MSI GTX 1070 Gaming X
  • Case
    Cooler Master Cosmos SE
  • Storage
    Samsung 840 EVO 500GB+WD Green 3TB
  • PSU
    EVGA SuperNOVA 850G2 80PLUS Gold Certified
  • Display(s)
    ASUS PB277Q 27" WQHD 2560x1440 75Hz 1ms
  • Cooling
    Corsair H105 with AP121s and Phanteks fans
  • Keyboard
    Logitech G610 Orion
  • Mouse
    E-3lue E-Blue Mazer II 2500 DPI Blue LED 2.4GHz Wireless Optical Gaming Mouse
  • Sound
    Audio-Technica ATH-M20x
  • Operating System
    Windows 10
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Single 970 would be better than SLI 960s for sure. 

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