dual 960 4gb?

[psycoUSA]

is a dual gtx 960 in SLI worth it?

and i have a intel core i5 4590 3.3ghz would the cpu be a bottleneck?

 

 

 

[Sam Z Man]

Never go SLI or X-Fire, when there are single card options of equal performance.

[TheSLSAMG]

I run it, I wouldn't necessarily recommend it but it's actually not a bad idea. You get around the performance of a single GTX 980, sometimes better, and it looks a lot cooler. The CPU should be more than enough.

 

In terms of SLI reliability and scaling, people make it up to be a lot worse than it is. Sometimes SLI will randomly turn off, but it has only happened a handful of times and can be fixed simply by turning it back on.

[Aruxx]

Might as well get a GTX 970 or R9 390.  I've heard too many cries of SLI troubles so that's my opinion.

[ivan134]

I run it, I wouldn't necessarily recommend it but it's actually not a bad idea. You get around the performance of a single GTX 980, sometimes better, and it looks a lot cooler. The CPU should be more than enough.

In terms of SLI reliability and scaling, people make it up to be a lot worse than it is. Sometimes SLI will randomly turn off, but it has only happened a handful of times and can be fixed simply by turning it back on.

That's because it as bad as it seems. In the games where its not suported you would wish you had gone for a single $400 GPU instead. Not to mention its garbage 192 bit bus.

[TheSLSAMG]

That's because it as bad as it seems. In the games where its not suported you would wish you had gone for a single $400 GPU instead. Not to mention its garbage 192 bit bus.

You're a funny man, trying to convince the user of a hardware configuration that it is garbage when (at least in their experience) it has been more than great.

 

I haven't found many, if any games that don't support the configuration. For games that don't support it from the factory, changing some settings in NVIDIA Inspector made it work out with SLI-grade performance.

[shypin]

it would be worth as it will get you extra performance at a lower price in an ideal situation

 

but SLI (almost) never scales perfectly so it might be better to just get a single card

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

I run it, I wouldn't necessarily recommend it but it's actually not a bad idea. You get around the performance of a single GTX 980, sometimes better, and it looks a lot cooler. The CPU should be more than enough.

 

In terms of SLI reliability and scaling, people make it up to be a lot worse than it is. Sometimes SLI will randomly turn off, but it has only happened a handful of times and can be fixed simply by turning it back on.

Yeah, I run 2 2GB versions and I can also testify to the fact that they perform fucking awesome- very similar and usually better than a 980- however I also don't recommend it.

[ivan134]

You're a funny man, trying to convince the user of a hardware configuration that it is garbage when (at least in their experience) it has been more than great.

I haven't found many, if any games that don't support the configuration. For games that don't support it from the factory, changing some settings in NVIDIA Inspector made it work out with SLI-grade performance.

Its garbage. Of course you convince yourself it isnt because youve alrady bought it. Thats fine for you but dont give other people garbage advice. A single GPU solution is always superior to dual gpus of the same cost.