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Should I upgrade to Windows 10 yet? (SLI related)

wunkley said:
Just a quick update for anyone interested....loving Windows 10 so far!

And, from the limited testing I've done so far - SLI performance, especially with regards to any stutter/ microstutter seems as good if not better than on Win7. Not that I was having any real issues anyway with my 980Ti's apart from a few 'usual suspect' games such as the Division, which is known for multi GPU issues at the mo. That's definitely a tad smoother in Windows 10 though!
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Good stuff :) Did you clean install in the end?
 
Yeah the updater gets a lot of flak but I always use it without issue. Who has the time to get their OS back to where they want it these days!
 
I'd say a clean install is a must. When I upgraded from Windows 8.1 I had major performance issues with Insurgency and War Thunder, two games that are easy to run on modern hardware. After a clean install all was well.
 
By the way, Wunkley how have you found the 980ti to be performing in sli? I've talked myself in and out of buying another for ages now, but I've got a chance to pick up an evga classy or hybrid for around £500 new so I'm reconsidering.

How's the performance? Any games in particular that are a disappointment? You glad you bought the second one now?
 
String said:
By the way, Wunkley how have you found the 980ti to be performing in sli? I've talked myself in and out of buying another for ages now, but I've got a chance to pick up an evga classy or hybrid for around £500 new so I'm reconsidering.

How's the performance? Any games in particular that are a disappointment? You glad you bought the second one now?
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Hey stringo :)

Loving running 2 x 980 Tis to be honest bud. The main and only reason I did it though is because I had a moment of madness and bought an Acer x34! Trust me when I say that if you want to push that monitor at 75hz, 85hz or above, you need two 980 Tis. Even then, in Many new games at max or near max settings, you won't be hitting 100hz, 100fps.

If I was still on my original rog swift I would have stuck at one card though. Probably.

I think we had quite a few discussions a while back about SLI with gsync and various issues with various games. I had a few games that had slight annoying stutter problems with my 2x 780Ti's and had to use some bizarre fixes like running the rog at 60hz and using rtss frame rate limiter at 59 to remove stutter and get lovely smooth performance.

2 games that were prime examples of this for me were Witcher 3 and gta5. I can happily report that on x99 with SLI 980Ti's I have none of these stutter issues that I had before. Whether it's the architecture of x99 and the full fat pcie3x16 lanes that the 5930k allows me to run I don't know. And I don't care, I'm loving the performance and experience all round

I bet you wanted me to say it was rubbish didn't you, save you some cash :)
 
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I actually rolled back to win 7, from 10, as I found I couldn't get a driver for my sound card to work. Win 10 has too many gimmickey things that I don't like. I'll only go back to win 10 when microsoft make me :p
 
I had no issues moving to windows 10 however I was not running SLI .... just remember if you are doing a clean install you MUST upgrade first if you do not have a retail cd and code once you have upgraded via windows 7 you can then do a fresh install.
 
Im still on Win 7, and have no issues at all with anything, and everything runs great on it, Win 10s only for DX12, but theres no DX12 games yet, and won't be for a while, so no point going to it yet, and you also can't have full screen, G/FreeSync, SLi/Xfire etc... with the games through the store, so untill al thats sorted out, i'll stick with my fully working Win 7 thankyou very much. :p
 
anthony566 said:
I had no issues moving to windows 10 however I was not running SLI .... just remember if you are doing a clean install you MUST upgrade first if you do not have a retail cd and code once you have upgraded via windows 7 you can then do a fresh install.
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No longer true, Microsoft has now made it such that you can enter a Windows 7, 8 or 8.1 key during installation when using the ISO you download and run from DVD/USB.
 
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