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GTX 980 SLI

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Other way around. The i5 could bottleneck the 980s.

 

If you have plans to upgrade the i5 in the future, than its smart. Whats you budget for the new 980. A new 10 card and selling your current card could be more worth it.

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3 minutes ago, TheNuzziNuzz said:

Other way around. The i5 could bottleneck the 980s.

 

If you have plans to upgrade the i5 in the future, than its smart. Whats you budget for the new 980. A new 10 card and selling your current card could be more worth it.

$275 - $300 for a new 980 and same price for selling it... Buy a 1080 is $1000... :(

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6 minutes ago, Skittleslovers02 said:

$275 - $300 for a new 980 and same price for selling it... Buy a 1080 is $1000... :(

An SLI 980 setup might be bottlenecked by the 6600k

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On 12/21/2016 at 9:11 PM, Skittleslovers02 said:

$275 - $300 for a new 980 and same price for selling it... Buy a 1080 is $1000... :(

If you wait a little more you could go for dual 1070s

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Yea you'll be bottlenecked, unless you overclock. But you should still see frame rates well above 100 in most games.

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but I do also recommend going GTX 1060 6gb or 1070

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19 hours ago, BlackJackLTT said:

If you wait a little more you could go for dual 1070s

No. 1070s don't go well together, plus that would cost st much as a 1080.

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19 hours ago, Skittleslovers02 said:

$275 - $300 for a new 980 and same price for selling it... Buy a 1080 is $1000... :(

Sell your GPU, then you have $600. With that you can spare 100 and get a 1080 with plans to upgrade the CPU in the future, or get a 1070, spare 100, and get an i7. How much do you think you could sell your cpu for?

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As someone who had SLI 980s, and recently upgraded to SLI 1080s, the answer is that it 100% depends on the games you're playing.  Games like The Witcher 3 have great SLI scaling and will utilize the full power of the cards, however games like WoW will only use about 50-60% of your GPU power as it's held back due to CPU limitations (WoW specifically doesn't use all CPU cores well, so my 5930k @ 4.3GHz still is the bottleneck with WoW).  Also consider games like Skyrim and Fallout 4 that require you to limit your frame rate if you don't want to completely break the physics of the game (I can run Skyrim at over 150 FPS, but when I enter a room it's like a bomb explodes and everything that is movable freaks out).  So limiting the frame rate will mean you're not fully utilizing the cards.

 

My advice would be to look at the games you want to play and see how well they utilize SLI and gpu power in general before spending a bunch of money.  It was a little disheartening to spend what I did on 2x 1080s only to find that in most of the games I want to play, I have to either disable SLI to make them run smoothly or cap what the game outputs so that I don't have issues in game.

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Yea, had a pair of 980 sc'a on my 3770k no issues in my games. Did oc it to 4.2. Unless the new gen i5's still don't compare to an old i7. 

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SLI 980s will probably be bottlenecked by the 6600k but the only faster CPU on the market is the 6700k and that doesn't yield any noticeable difference in most games (and even if it does show, the extra FPS will not justify the $100 price delta). If you OC your i5 (do it!!), the performance gap between i5 and i7 gets even smaller. Nevertheless, I would recommend selling your current 980 and get a 1080 which will CRUSH every game (maybe not as much as SLI 980s) and you don't have the hassle of dealing with SLI.

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I play a wide variety of games and sli has been awesome in all of them :) 

no micro stuttering at all 

litterly no negative sides to sli at all just more fps 

my 4790k has never been over 60 percent usage running 2 980tis 

 

iv seen people running titanxm on a oced 4690k and they have been more than fine 

if 2 980's will run with ur power supply I would do it 

save all the hassle of selling ur card then having no gpu why u wait to buy a new one 

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