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Would you go SLI/CFX if you had the money?

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Would you go SLI/CFX if you had the money?   

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  1. 1. Would you go SLI/CFX if you had the money?

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Answer the poll guys! I'm just intersted in how many people say yes vs no. Also elaborate below as to why you would or wouldn't!

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4 minutes ago, AppleWhizzer said:

Answer the poll guys! I'm just intersted in how many people say yes vs no. Also elaborate below as to why you would or wouldn't!

Would not. Currently I have a 970. If I was given 300$ to buy another, I would sell my first one for ~120 then buy a 1070. 

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7 minutes ago, bgibbz said:

Would not. Currently I have a 970. If I was given 300$ to buy another, I would sell my first one for ~120 then buy a 1070. 

Very true. I was going to go SLI with my 770 before she died. I will probably go sli/cfx with 2 cheap cards (hd6950's) just to test it out and see if it actually works. Plus i think it looks sick!

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9 minutes ago, FirstArmada said:

Only for flagships 

This.  The only time to use multi gpu currently is when you have 2 of the best ones available.   Another semi reasonable reason is to set one to physx processing if you play a lot of a game that supports it.  Otherwise sell the lower one and buy a better single card solution.
This may change if DX12 multi gpu support scales well and is seamlessly integrated.

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Considering the price of a single GTX 970, yes. Although i would need to get one of the shorter cards as my current case barely fits my GTX 970 G1 Gaming with the HDD cage installed (had to remove the backplate-no much of a loss as I can add heatsinks to the rear vRAM).

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37 minutes ago, AppleWhizzer said:

Answer the poll guys! I'm just intersted in how many people say yes vs no. Also elaborate below as to why you would or wouldn't!

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I voted no.  I'd rather have a single good card that can do what I want it to do.

Also I like leaving room for other expansion cards, board & case permitting.   For example I might want to later add a couple PCI-E SSDs, a RAID card or 2, USB 3.1 C expansion, video capture (for converting vhs / 8mm / film to digital), etc.

 

I usually like to keep my motherboards a while, like 6-8 years or so. :)  Also once I have a discrete GPU, I'd hang onto it a while.  For example, if I had a 9600 GSO or something that generation around $200-250 I'd definitely upgrade to a GTX 1060.  A GTX 260, I'd be on the fence, and I'd probably keep a GTX 460 if I had it now.

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Nope, ran crossfire and it was a horrible experience. Constantly fighting heat issues and never found a benefit outside synthetic benchmarks. Screw that. 

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1 hour ago, catzambia said:

no, iirc you just need to get some stupid key from nvidia.

Yeah i read that as well haha enthusiast key or some sh*t

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1 hour ago, catzambia said:

no, iirc you just need to get some stupid key from nvidia.

Nvidia removed that restriction, last I read.

 

As to the OP, if I had the money, I would SLI if I was 2K or 4K gaming, and if a single GTX 1080 wasn't delivering high frames in my games. I wouldn't multi-GPU just to have 2 cards in my system, if they weren't delivering any additional benefit.

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After running 2x GTX 780s for a while, I would wholeheartedly say no (unless you have top-tier an still need more performance). The amount of little annoyance and quirks you occur when running SLI make it worth paying the extra price for a more powerful card. 

 

Just to list some of the things that annoy me:

 

* Random screen flicker on multi-monitor unless "Prefer Maximum Performance" is forced in the NVCP

* SLI not working in borderless window / windowed modes

* Having to use Nvidia Inspector for force comparability bits for games that don't support SLI out of the box

* Micro-stutter in games that have crap SLI profiles

* Having to wait for driver updates for SLI profiles

* Games which just flat out don't work with SLI

* Poor scaling

* Extra heat from 2 gpus

 

I'm honestly looking forward to my 1080 arriving so I can ditch SLI.

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11 hours ago, catzambia said:

no, iirc you just need to get some stupid key from nvidia.

I heard that they ended up canceling that?

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I have plans on getting a pair of GTX 1080s for SLI for my rig upgrades.

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17 hours ago, AppleWhizzer said:

Answer the poll guys! I'm just intersted in how many people say yes vs no. Also elaborate below as to why you would or wouldn't!

Not worth all the trouble

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I sli and cf all the things.  2 cards look cooler than 1 card. 3 cards is nice and 4 cards is insane :D I wish they would let you do 8 way with quad dual gpu cards.  I would be all up for 760 Mars 8 way sli and 295x2 8 way cf. 

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I suppose if I hit the powerball I'd buy 3 1080s, but otherwise? Not a chance. GamersNexus just published CF 480 benchmarks where they showed negative scaling in games that make heavy use of postprocessing effects so that frames are dependent on each other. 

 

 

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I would never Use Sli/crossfire.

Always better to buy one single card for optimal experiance..Also I love Mini-ITX.

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Ive ran sli for ever series since the 5xx's. Sometimes twice in the same series. Only issue ive ever had is the cpu once while in bf4, had to raise the multiplier. Also with the new cod, BO3. Doesn't support sli what so ever. If the 1080 series can do ultra wide or triple screen with a single card with high/ultra setting and maintain 120 fps min., Ill use just one. Depends on the release of the ti's if any or the kingpin/classified versions.

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At the moment no, game support is sketchy and not always available at launch.

 

If something changes with DX12/Vulcan so that can be more widely supported, without the annoying issues than can come with multi-GPU setups, yeah I'd give it another go. As long as I hadn't switched to M-ITX by then.

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