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SLI Worth it?

murah

murah

murah

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Specs in sig, mate of mine bought the same card as me (Asus GTX 670 4gb) But he is going for a 780 because he can the lucky boy. I thought I could buy his card of him to run in SLI. Both our cards clock the same at 1202/7008

My question is SLI worth it, I have heard about micro-stuttering and to be honest I have no idea what it is!

Or should I just keep what I have and be done with it for a few years:confused:
 
Hmm looks like he will do it for £150, I can have it asap and pay him off in chunks ... Thanks for the help all. Certainly not worried about the vRam thats why I bought the 4GB in the first place "just in case" ;).

I have heard people complain about micro-stuttering and after reading up on it I can see why It would annoy some people, however I watched a video of someone showing MS and I honestly could not tell what he was trying to show so maybe its slightly subjective to the person.

I do play some older games but I could just disable SLI for them if it's not supported or worth it right?

Also while our cards clock the same, I've noticed that mine likes to hit its power limit and throttle back by 13Mhz every now and again, His doesn't, Do SLI'd cards have to run the same clock/memory speed?
 
Well like i said both our cards clock at 1202mhz on the core and 7008mhz on the memory (we spent hours on TS overclocking at the same time for the luls) just mine likes to hit its power limit and very slightly throttles and his doesnt, It's good to know that if there is a slight discrepancy on the clock speeds between cards that it wont effect anything!
 
chaparral said:
make sure to put the one that doesn't throttle into the top slot...

It Always best to put the fastest card in an SLI setup in the top PCI-E slot...
(The PCI-E Slot closest to the CPU if it a desktop case / HTPC case / ETC )
Click to expand...

Alrighty, even had to add a modded bios to my card to increase power target to 135%(from 122%) fixed the throttle issue for 95% of my games for example BF4 stable @ ultra settings with 4x msaa @ 1080p 60fps avg with slight dips to 50's thanks to shadowplay

but farcry3 likes to make my card go over the 135% power limit, tried lots of different limits but none help
 
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