Any recent SLI issues?

opethdisciple · 20 May 2015 at 15:01

Thinking of SLI'ing my 970 G1.

However I remember swearing that I would never go SLI again, after SLI'ing my 670's. Hot, loud and stutter is all that was introduced.

However the Witcher 3 is making me think I need to beef things up a bit.

How is people recent experience with SLI since the turn of the year?

whyscotty · 20 May 2015 at 15:54

Sli for me has been poor since b4 Xmas

Scania · 20 May 2015 at 15:55

I'm toying with SLI myself, undecided as for each happy owner I read about, I soon find another with issues.

A mate of mine has two GTX 480's in SLI on an old Q9550 system, it runs GTA V and Battlefield 4 beautifully at very high settings (1080) and it's seeing his system in action that's swaying me toward a second GTX580 and SLI capable motherboard / CPU / RAM bundle when I eventually upgrade.

elmuzzy66. · 20 May 2015 at 16:00

Scania said:
I'm toying with SLI myself, undecided as for each happy owner I read about, I soon find another with issues.

A mate of mine has two GTX 480's in SLI on an old Q9550 system, it runs GTA V and Battlefield 4 beautifully at very high settings (1080) and it's seeing his system in action that's swaying me toward a second GTX580 and SLI capable motherboard / CPU / RAM bundle when I eventually upgrade.

Considering its a 580 maybe a newer single gpu would offer the better performance but at a bigger cost.

Gregster · 20 May 2015 at 16:02

I am not a fan of SLI. I am very susceptible to microstutter and noticed it when I went SLI in quite a few games.

VincentHanna · 20 May 2015 at 16:04

I think a lot of that is caused by the Nvidia streamer service to be honest.

Silent_Scone · 20 May 2015 at 16:05

VincentHanna said:
I think a lot of that is caused by the Nvidia streamer service to be honest.

It does relieve a lot of it by disabling it yeah. No reason for that to be active unless the device is detected

ChrisD. · 20 May 2015 at 16:11

Only issue I've had was in GTA V which was fixed by turning on adaptive V Sync for the game.

africanos23 · 20 May 2015 at 16:21

S2KIP said:
Only issue I've had was in GTA V which was fixed by turning on adaptive V Sync for the game.

I had a similar issue with a single TX, it's got to do with the games Vsync.

Nvidia Vsync from the control panel fixed it for me.

varkanoid · 20 May 2015 at 17:47

Had SLI for about 6 months, first with 970's then with 980's. Can't believe how superb and trouble free its been. Wish I had done it ages ago.

Things change I've changed · 20 May 2015 at 17:59

Think I may grab another 980 if they drop in price when the TI is released, always wanted to try it out.

Was just wondering I currently have a multi-monitor setup, how is that effected when I want to game? will the extra screens disable automatically?

setter · 20 May 2015 at 18:10

Had stuttering issues a while back, but after a few driver updates things were grand. Cant say what it's been like lately though as i havent been gaming a lot.

africanos23 · 20 May 2015 at 18:10

lowrider007 said:
Think I may grab another 980 if they drop in price when the TI is released, always wanted to try it out.

Was just wondering I currently have a multi-monitor setup, how is that effected when I want to game? will the extra screens disable automatically?

Nop its the same as having 1 card. I was running 3 screens back in the day and was a smooth experience with SLI.

VincentHanna · 20 May 2015 at 18:44

If you have more than 2 screens attached your idle temps will jump up a lot.

Geeman1979 · 20 May 2015 at 21:52

No problems at all running a pair of Titans which weren't game related.

llamadal · 20 May 2015 at 22:21

I'm using sli 780 without issues.

I know 4 people personally using 970 in sli, all of them have no issues either

Putty · 21 May 2015 at 10:23

Using SLI 970s here as well and haven't had any issues!

Oh, apart from COD which has now been sorted!

Scania · 21 May 2015 at 13:59

elmuzzy66. said:
Considering its a 580 maybe a newer single gpu would offer the better performance but at a bigger cost.

Indeed it would, but, I'm reckoning another second hand GTX580 for ~£50 ish in SLI is going to give me as much performance in GTA V & BF4 etc as a newer single card solution, I'd rather throw the lions share of my upgrade budget at a decent SLI capable MOBO / CPU / RAM bundle and utilise the SLI as mentioned and in the future, as funds allow, then get a better single card and subsequently SLI that if & when the need arises.

ALXAndy · 21 May 2015 at 14:18

My 670s were a ****** in SLI too. Not performance wise, that was excellent. The temps bloody sucked though !!

setter · 21 May 2015 at 16:42

My wf 670's were great in sli, but they were in a much better spaced board than the formula which houses my 780's. Seen the top card hit as much as 85c.