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Will my current system handle 2x 980's?

jonneymendoza

jonneymendoza

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Hi all. i am thinking of grabbing two 980gtx evga's and SLI them on my current i7 920 clocked at 3.8ghz with a p6t delux mobo http://www.asus.com/uk/Motherboards/P6T_Deluxe/specifications/

inside it i have a corsair ax 850 PSUU powering it all along with about 3 mechanical hdd's and 2 ssd's.

is my system sufficient enough?

i am gaming at 30inch monitor that houses 2560x1600 res and basically want to max out every game out now and for future the GTA5 game.

Thanks
 
how old is it?

if it's new-ish, yes, no problem with SLI.

Measured power consumption GTX 980 2-way SLI
System in IDLE = 123 Watts
System Wattage with GPU in FULL Stress = 446 Watts
Difference (GPU load) = 316 Watts
Add average IDLE wattage ~10 Watts
Subjective obtained GPU power consumption = ~ 332 Watts
 
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The sli connector is supplied with the motherboard. Do you still have the box and accessories that came with the board/
 
I recently swapped from a 3570k to a 2700k. The i7 920 is slightly less powerful than the 3570k source: http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Core-i7-920-vs-Intel-Core-i5-3570K

The 3570k bottlenecked my two GTX 670 4GB's swapping to the 2700k has sorted that problem so take from this what you will, that being said even the 3570k allowed me higher FPS via two cards than a single one would give me it's just the minimums were not high enough for my personal opinion and it wasn't as smooth as it is now!
 
The 920 being a hyperthreaded i7 will help a bit with sli, moreso at the higher res. Ive owned both the 920 and the 3570k. Tbh with a single card there was very little between them. Unfortunately i never got to try the same sli'd cards in each platform. Still got an i7 930 based system but i would never try running the cards in sig in it, (p6 x58 de mobo is too tightly spaced). and i dont fancy the smell of a cooked gtx 780.:D


For the op, shot below to give you an idea of space in the p6t deluxe with sli.

 
Before my recent upgrade I had the same psu driving 2 x GTX 580's with 3 mechanical drives and an ssd without issue, think the 980's consume less power than the equivalent 580 so you should be fine :)
 
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The 920 being a hyperthreaded i7 will help a bit with sli, moreso at the higher res. Ive owned both the 920 and the 3570k. Tbh with a single card there was very little between them. Unfortunately i never got to try the same sli'd cards in each platform. Still got an i7 930 based system but i would never try running the cards in sig in it, (p6 x58 de mobo is too tightly spaced). and i dont fancy the smell of a cooked gtx 780.:D


For the op, shot below to give you an idea of space in the p6t deluxe with sli.

Click to expand...


spacing seems OK but the 980gtx are quite cool anyway.

i imagine most boards dont have much spacing given the fact that a 980 takes up two pci slots

anyways this is just to tie me over for another year whilst i wait for broadwell
 
Yep, newer cards are a lot cooler. The above was a pair of gtx 470's, known to be very hot running cards. It can vary with boards tbh. The p6t deluxe was much better than the p6 x58 de.
 
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