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C13GE
By C13GE
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Hey guys and girls.

 

I have recently built a PC for "gaming" about 6 months ago now. I was holding out till christmas to get a GPU. I was at a family gathering and one of my relatives offered me two Gigabyte GTX 560ti's with an SLI Bridge. Now my problem is I bought an AMD APU. I have an FM2+ Gigabyte mobo with two PCIe lanes but one runs in x16 and the other x4. Obviously going to have to upgrade that. But I've read the Fm2+ doesn't support SLI on any motherboards. I have some money that I was going to put towards a GTX 960 or an R9 380 and am wondering what would a good motherboard and CPU be to run these two GPU's. I am planning to upgrade to a newer GPU about this time next year, preferably an intel CPU and the cheaper the better :) I live in Australia so the prices over here are far more expensive than America or Canada.

 

Thanks :)

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R9 380 is more powerful than a GTX 580. 560 SLI is rather pointless

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R9 380 is more powerful than a GTX 580. 560 SLI is rather pointless

But I'm being offered these for free. Im only playing CS:GO and my frames are dropping and its getting annoying. I just wanted to know if it would be worthwhile upgrading my CPU and motherboard to run both. My Dad wouldn't let me buy a different GPU even if I made my own way to a store to buy them. I have no GPU at all right now so anything is better than nothing.

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But I'm being offered these for free. Im only playing CS:GO and my frames are dropping and its getting annoying. I just wanted to know if it would be worthwhile upgrading my CPU and motherboard to run both. My Dad wouldn't let me buy a different GPU even if I made my own way to a store to buy them. I have no GPU at all right now so anything is better than nothing.

As long as your PSU can support 1, take them and sell 1 and use the other or keep the 2nd as a back-up

Archangel (Desktop) CPU: i5 4590 GPU:Asus R9 280  3GB RAM:HyperX Beast 2x4GBPSU:SeaSonic S12G 750W Mobo:GA-H97m-HD3 Case:CM Silencio 650 Storage:1 TB WD Red
Celestial (Laptop 1) CPU:i7 4720HQ GPU:GTX 860M 4GB RAM:2x4GB SK Hynix DDR3Storage: 250GB 850 EVO Model:Lenovo Y50-70
Seraph (Laptop 2) CPU:i7 6700HQ GPU:GTX 970M 3GB RAM:2x8GB DDR4Storage: 256GB Samsung 951 + 1TB Toshiba HDD Model:Asus GL502VT
Windows 10 is now MSX! - http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/440190-can-we-start-calling-windows-10/page-6

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