Newb Question ,But..........

[Jhogan]

Hey Guys,

          I'm still a bit green on gaming PC trivia and so I thought: "Hey, I'll just post something online and see what Happens!" (May God have mercy on my soul)

 

Well to start off I just recently bought a GTX 760 4GB card and I'm thinking about buying a second one for SLI. The card itself is pretty standard,

buy it online with 2 day shipping, But the SLI bridge is a different BEAST. I have seen prices from 5.99 to 36.99. Does my spending increase performance?

Can i get away with the cheap bridge? Or should I invest into the name brand (EVGA, MSI, ASUS, ETC)? I would rather save the buck and spend it on the card.

But if I'm shooting myself in the foot with any less than (insert amount) I don't want to waste the money in the first place. Advice?

[JaegerB]

A single more powerful card is always better than SLI.

[RileyTheFox]

3 minutes ago, Jhogan said:

Hey Guys,

          I'm still a bit green on gaming PC trivia and so I thought: "Hey, I'll just post something online and see what Happens!" (May God have mercy on my soul)

 

Well to start off I just recently bought a GTX 760 4GB card and I'm thinking about buying a second one for SLI. The card itself is pretty standard,

buy it online with 2 day shipping, But the SLI bridge is a different BEAST. I have seen prices from 5.99 to 36.99. Does my spending increase performance?

Can i get away with the cheap bridge? Or should I invest into the name brand (EVGA, MSI, ASUS, ETC)? I would rather save the buck and spend it on the card.

But if I'm shooting myself in the foot with any less than (insert amount) I don't want to waste the money in the first place. Advice?

Paying more will result in getting a higher bandwidth and higher speed bridge. Not sure the exact numbers of the difference but I heard it can be a decent amount 

[Clockwork_princess]

do you need to SLI it? its pretty much like a 1050, honesty i would of not got the 760 and used all the money to buy a better card.

 

for gaming on modern games SLI doesn't scale very well 

 

so IMO save up and get a whole new card, will serve you better, but for the the 760 will be fine.

[EnergyEclipse]

For a lower end card like such of the 760, I believe a single card shall be your greatest options.

[Princess Luna]

Where are you from? it is hard imagine someone into getting old and out-dated 760's for gaming nowadays, even if you want to bargain Maxwell cards are cheap and abundant and makes more sense.

 

A single GTX 970 is faster than a 2way SLI GTX 760

[shadowbyte]

SLI bridge makes no difference, provided it's not made from gluten-free penne rigate

although, I'd highly suggest selling your 760 and just picking up something like a used 970, as it's far more powerful, and doesn't have weird SLI behavoir.

[GnomeKing]

4 minutes ago, Jhogan said:

and I'm thinking about buying a second one for SLI

NOPE. Don't do that. Hell I and a lot of people would say no even if you owned a 1080ti. Shit buy a titan and water cool it. It's not worth it. Save up and buy a replacement card. The scaling is terrible and your throwing money down the drain. 100% not worth it. UNLESS you only ever play 1 game and that game has 80% scaling on a 760 than sure but otherwise NO. Don't do it it's not worth it.

[Taki]

1 minute ago, shadowbyte said:

SLI bridge makes no difference, provided it's not made from gluten-free penne rigate

although, I'd highly suggest selling your 760 and just picking up something like a used 970, as it's far more powerful, and doesn't have weird SLI behavoir.

also you could get refurbished gtx 980s for $250 in the US (if u live there) which is way better than gtx 760 sli) 

[GeorgeDouj88]

9 minutes ago, JaegerB said:

A single more powerful card is always better than SLI.

Indeed, so many problems with SLI compatibility and almost always not worth the extra money, unless building an enthusiast grade PC then okay, but do not recommend SLI.