Should I go SLI 670's?

opethdisciple · 10 Mar 2014 at 12:46

I game at 1920x1200 resolution.

I currently have the following specs:

3570k @ stock
GTX 670 WF OC
Gigabyte UD3H mobo
8Gb 1600Mhz Ram
Win 8.1 x64

I'm thinking of purchaseing another 670 for sli. Never done it before.

I do play all the latest titles etc... BF4 etc etc etc...

What do you reckon. Worth it? 2Gb VRAM limit?

stulid · 10 Mar 2014 at 12:48

Does your motherboard support SLI?

thefogo · 10 Mar 2014 at 12:50

Depends how much you can get the 670 for.

opethdisciple · 10 Mar 2014 at 12:51

thefogo said:
Depends how much you can get the 670 for.

£185.99

opethdisciple · 10 Mar 2014 at 12:52

stulid said:
Does your motherboard support SLI?

Gigabyte UD3H mobo

thefogo · 10 Mar 2014 at 12:57

opethdisciple said:
£185.99

I don't imagine they'll get any more in stock. Could be wrong though.

Showboat · 10 Mar 2014 at 12:59

If you have a compatible mobo and a good enough psu to power it then its the best bang for buck upgrade you can do.

Don't be like me and buy one only to figure out your mobo doesn't support it, so you buy a new mobo... and sure while you are doing that you may as well get a new cpu... and while i have the mobo out it would be a good time to replace the case.. and sure while im doing that i may as well get a new psu!!!!

Showboat · 10 Mar 2014 at 12:59

Also, you can get one on the mm for about £145
You won't get a new one as they stopped making them

stulid · 10 Mar 2014 at 13:03

Motherboard certainly does do SLi

opethdisciple · 10 Mar 2014 at 13:08

My PSU is a Thermaltake 850watt (I think)

Let put it this way, SLI 670's wont be wasted on a 1920x1200 monitor?

And it's easy to do? Just install it in the pci ex slot, attached sli bridge and turn PC back on?

Reinstall drivers?

no_1_dave · 10 Mar 2014 at 13:11

Sell you 670 and get a 780
Same cost, same performance, no worries about SLI working right away on new releases, more vram.

arc@css · 10 Mar 2014 at 13:38

Resolution is fine for 2gb of video memory.

Showboat · 10 Mar 2014 at 13:41

opethdisciple said:
My PSU is a Thermaltake 850watt (I think)

Let put it this way, SLI 670's wont be wasted on a 1920x1200 monitor?

And it's easy to do? Just install it in the pci ex slot, attached sli bridge and turn PC back on?

Reinstall drivers?

Pretty much.
You don't need to re-install drivers, just enable it in the nvidia control panel under 3d something or other!

opethdisciple · 10 Mar 2014 at 13:41

Dx12 is still a while off isnt it?

David Bisset · 10 Mar 2014 at 13:43

no_1_dave said:
Sell you 670 and get a 780
Same cost, same performance, no worries about SLI working right away on new releases, more vram.

^^ this for me.

Rusty0611 · 10 Mar 2014 at 13:45

I would be looking to go for a single 780 if I were you.

Gripen90 · 10 Mar 2014 at 13:53

One GTX 780 certainly doesn't match 2x GTX 670 SLi performance at all - been there done that !. That's why I later upgraded to 2x GTX 780 SLI to get the additional boost

2x GTX 670 2GB for 1920x1200 is superb ! I even had 3x 670 for 1200p lol. So you will be fine for at least another year.

jh30uk · 10 Mar 2014 at 14:36

Needs a 780Ti to match 670/680 SLI win/draw/loose some benches, but at least a single card will be consistent where as SLI/Crossfire is not.

arc@css · 10 Mar 2014 at 14:37

Out of interest, how are you finding one 670 for 1200p?

murah · 10 Mar 2014 at 14:42

I went SLI 670's and yeah its great, gotta be honest you might have to overclock your CPU to 4+ My gpu usage can be a bit hit'n'miss but every game i play has better performance (BF4, crysis 3 etc) and I can wack everything on full, with Nvidia inspector custom AA and down-sampling.