On my GTX 780 a pink light showed up. Also, should I upgrade from 2way 780 SLI to a GTX 1060?

[CrowClaws]

Hi there,

 

so first of all, while looking through benchmarks for my possible upgrade I took a look at my graphics card and noticed that the lower one of my two 780 had a little  pink light on. I have no idea what it is and would like to know if someone knows what it is.

 

Also, I was thinking about switching my 780s for one 1060, because I usually get about the same performance as my friends with their 970s and the 1060 outperforms the 970 and wouldnt cost me much to upgrade, plus I would get rid of SLI which I grown to dislike due to various bugs with it. Now, while looking on the internet I found conflicting benchmarks concerning the 780 SLIs performance, but usually these benchmarks get more than I do. So I figured I would ask this community as I trust it. Would that switch make sense? Or is something wrong with my setup and Im somehow getting not the performance I should be getting?

Thank you for  your help in advance!

 

[Imakuni]

17 minutes ago, CrowClaws said:

Hi there,

 

so first of all, while looking through benchmarks for my possible upgrade I took a look at my graphics card and noticed that the lower one of my two 780 had a little  pink light on. I have no idea what it is and would like to know if someone knows what it is.

 

Also, I was thinking about switching my 780s for one 1060, because I usually get about the same performance as my friends with their 970s and the 1060 outperforms the 970 and wouldnt cost me much to upgrade, plus I would get rid of SLI which I grown to dislike due to various bugs with it. Now, while looking on the internet I found conflicting benchmarks concerning the 780 SLIs performance, but usually these benchmarks get more than I do. So I figured I would ask this community as I trust it. Would that switch make sense? Or is something wrong with my setup and Im somehow getting not the performance I should be getting?

Thank you for  your help in advance!

 

SLI 780 should be considerably better most of the time. THe 970 isn't that much better than a single 780, and the 1060 isn't all that much better than the 970 as well. So you'd mostly get rid of SLI problems rather than getting a proper "upgrade".

[Lord_Karango17]

A single 1060 is not much faster than one of your cards, so are you wanting to move to the 1060 purely for the stability of 1 card? because your sli setup is much faster than a single 1060.

[don_svetlio]

1060 is slower than your current setup.

[SuchIlluminati]

2 780s should be a lot faster than a single 780. If want to upgrade to a faster single card you should get the GTX 1080.

[CrowClaws]

2 hours ago, Imakuni said:

SLI 780 should be considerably better most of the time. THe 970 isn't that much better than a single 780, and the 1060 isn't all that much better than the 970 as well. So you'd mostly get rid of SLI problems rather than getting a proper "upgrade".

 

 

2 hours ago, Lord_Karango17 said:

A single 1060 is not much faster than one of your cards, so are you wanting to move to the 1060 purely for the stability of 1 card? because your sli setup is much faster than a single 1060.

 

 

2 hours ago, don_svetlio said:

1060 is slower than your current setup.

 

2 hours ago, SuchIlluminati said:

2 780s should be a lot faster than a single 780. If want to upgrade to a faster single card you should get the GTX 1080.

Yet in the real world to me it seems like I always get the same performance as my mate with his 970. Any ideas what that might be? We got the same CPU, i5 4690k (mine is overclocked) and 8GB RAM.

[don_svetlio]

Just now, CrowClaws said:

 

 

 

Yet in the real world to me it seems like I always get the same performance as my mate with his 970. Any ideas what that might be? We got the same CPU, i5 4690k (mine is overclocked) and 8GB RAM.

Your CPU is bottlenecking.

[CrowClaws]

1 hour ago, don_svetlio said:

Your CPU is bottlenecking.

What CPU would I need to bottleneck as little as possible on 1080p?

 

 

[don_svetlio]

Just now, CrowClaws said:

What CPU would I need to bottleneck as little as possible on 1080p?

 

 

At this point, just wait and upgrade to Zen or Kaby lake and a 1070

[Mick Naughty]

I just upgraded from that chip set (Titan black sli) to a 1080. I can turn the rest of the settings that weren't at max to max now. Same frames though, sometimes less. 

[Lord_Karango17]

On 8/24/2016 at 11:28 PM, CrowClaws said:

 

 

 

Yet in the real world to me it seems like I always get the same performance as my mate with his 970. Any ideas what that might be? We got the same CPU, i5 4690k (mine is overclocked) and 8GB RAM.

Probably a better plan of action to try and diagnose your issue rather than spending a bunch of money getting a new gpu...

 

Have you looked at cpu and gpu usages to see which is the limiting factor in games? made sure gpu clock speeds are where they should be during gaming?

Trying to fix the problem will likely be free but trying to sell a gpu that not many people want and getting a new gpu will not be cheap...

 

At 1080p and higher your cpu should be fine in most games as the framerates wont be high enough to start causing significant cpu loads.