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Nvidia GTX 980 Owners Thread

Just an fyi the review links are all broken on the first page.

stoney101 said:
Look what just showed up at my door :D

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Nice :cool: Nothing like a new build and being able to sniff the new hardware and rub the nude pcb's....:eek:
 
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I've got two 980's turning up Tuesday and I'm intending to go SLI so as to get the most out of the ROG Swift monitor. I've not gone SLI for some years now and in the end I went back to a single GPU as I found it a bit of a hassle so I just wanted to know have we moved on over the last few years as far as SLI is concerned?

I'm one of these people who likes things to just work I haven't got the time or patience for faffing :)
 
mmacarthur said:
I've got two 980's turning up Tuesday and I'm intending to go SLI so as to get the most out of the ROG Swift monitor. I've not gone SLI for some years now and in the end I went back to a single GPU as I found it a bit of a hassle so I just wanted to know have we moved on over the last few years as far as SLI is concerned?

I'm one of these people who likes things to just work I haven't got the time or patience for faffing :)
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Pretty much straight forward, post back if you have any probs. :)
 
mmacarthur said:
I've got two 980's turning up Tuesday and I'm intending to go SLI so as to get the most out of the ROG Swift monitor. I've not gone SLI for some years now and in the end I went back to a single GPU as I found it a bit of a hassle so I just wanted to know have we moved on over the last few years as far as SLI is concerned?

I'm one of these people who likes things to just work I haven't got the time or patience for faffing :)
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Been using SLI for a year now, all works fine and stable. Very little faff just enable SLI in driver and hope to christ that the game you are playing has decent SLI support (Most new games have decent out the box support that improves over time with driver updates).
As far as benching goes the latest drivers give me slightly lower scores on the usual bechmarks but the trade off is smoother SLI performance so that's a non issue.

I play some older games that doesn't need even 50% of 1 of my GPU's thankfully the bottom card usually goes into idle mode to save power (Or switches over to a PhysX card when capable). Overall I like SLI and it saved me a fair few bob.

The downside being increased temps (Especially in summer!) and increased noise although that is subjective to the cooler on your card, your case configuration and your own perception of the noise.

Once in a while you might want to faff a little (IE: some games I have to set to use only 1 GPU as the SLI support is junk, Batman:Arkham origins comes to mind, thankfully the card defaults to a PhysX card now on that netting me decent gains)
 
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