gpu need help setting up another gpu

[TheMeowOne]

Hello anyone willing to help,

I currently have a gtx 950 gpu (kinda lame, I know) and a friend of mine with identical one can bring me his which is no longer in use. 

I was wondering how do I start? I looked a little online realizing I need an "SLI bridge" and enough ram for that. 

peripherals (that I believe are necessary):

GTX 950 3gb

8 gb of ram 

 

Appreciate any help!

[iRileyx]

You can do SLI with 8gb ram so that's fine.

Make sure you buy the right length SLI bridge if it's a solid one(if its too short or long it wont work) or if you buy a cable style one, just make sure its not too short.

[Lathlaer]

1 minute ago, RKRiley said:

You can't SLI 950's.

Yea you can. Maxwell times were strange times

[iRileyx]

Just now, Lathlaer said:

Yea you can. Maxwell times were strange times

I know i realised after posting, edited it now.

[TheMeowOne]

Well, I thought that I might not have enough ram in order to handle an extra gpu.

[TheMeowOne]

7 minutes ago, RKRiley said:

You can do SLI with 8gb ram so that's fine.

Make sure you buy the right length SLI bridge if it's a solid one(if its too short or long it wont work) or if you buy a cable style one, just make sure its not too short.

Thank you!

Do you know if it will have trouble temperature wise? 

[Lathlaer]

6 minutes ago, TheMeowOne said:

Well, I thought that I might not have enough ram in order to handle an extra gpu.

That video says absolutely nothing about your system RAM ;-)

 

3 minutes ago, TheMeowOne said:

Do you know if it will have trouble temperature wise? 

It depends. What is your case, how many fans and what kind of version of 950 do you have and will be getting?

[TheMeowOne]

53 minutes ago, Lathlaer said:

That video says absolutely nothing about your system RAM ;-)

 

It depends. What is your case, how many fans and what kind of version of 950 do you have and will be getting?

I have a Nvidia geforce GTX950 OC 2gb gigabyte gpu and Alpine 11 rev2 arctic cooling fan

 

Thank you in advance  

[Lathlaer]

6 minutes ago, TheMeowOne said:

Alpine 11 rev2 arctic cooling fan

I was more interested in your case than CPU fan.

 

I'd expect the upper card to run in the ballpark of 80-85c and the lower around 70-75c. Unless you have a case with side fan that can feed fresh air to them - then expect it to be about 5c lower or something around that.

 

If you have a case with terrible airflow then you may cook the upper card.

[TheMeowOne]

It's a cooler master K282, I don't have any other fans other than the one I mentioned. 

Are there other necessary things to get besides the bridge?

As you can probably tell I'm pretty bad at that kinda. 

Once again thanks for your help.