The system I built is in need of upgrade, But do you think I can get away with doing respectable 4K gaming on these cards: 2 GTX 660 Ti cards in SLI. Specs: DX 11.1 support. GDDR5 Memory @ 2048 per card. Freq clock 1041 Mhz and Memory Freq at 1509. Please keep in mind this is with two of these cards in SLI. I'm debating on if I should blow my cash on a nice 4K monitor, or off these cards first in favor of what will bring me to great gaming at 4k resolution at a later time. Problem: I can not afford both the 4k monitor and new cards so one must come first. Difficult choice for me. As for CPU... I don't feel lacking. My i5 Ivy at 4.4Ghz seems to be holding it's own very well... at least for the time being.
what games? in any case 2gb vram will make it almost impossible anyway, and those 2 cards together cant even match a 970 even if they had perfect scaling, and even then not many games will see that short answer is no, unless by "gaming" you mean playing moba games or classics
Card 1st. 4K is quite demanding. I have been running 4K for a few months. 2x 660's would work at 3860x2160, but only for older titles. Newer titles, even my old GTX970 needed major settings adjustments to run smooth @4K. Also, 4K monitors will keep getting better and cheaper. I personally still prefer my 1080p/144hz monitor for gaming. 1080p looks good enough to me. 1440p is still the sweet spot for maximum performance/eye candy.
Same as you I have a 1080P/144hz monitor for gaming. Actually nothing I can not play at Max settings, but I'm wanting the sweet eye candy of a 4K monitor with capability to run at 60 plus FPS maxed out. Currently this is no problem to do, but in 4K I don't know. I've never tried, nor have the monitor to have yet tried... Theirs a couple 27" 2K monitors I've been checking out. 2K vs 4K? am I really going to notice the diff? These 2 GTX 660 TI cards are pretty strong. I'm thinking maybe 2K???
As the others said. 2 660s can't drive 4k monitor. Buy a good gpu or 2 then think about the 4k monitor. If your already on nvidia do DSR to 4k from your native resolution and test for yourself. Sure you'll be disappointed with your 660 SLI.
If I was you I would just get a New GPU, not a new 4K monitor and the reason is that there is no 4K monitors that have HDR and HDR is awesome is actually more noticeable than just doing 4K. I couldn't wait so i got 2016 OLED TV. (a great option if you want big and good quality) 660SLI it wont be enough, I had 970SLI and sold them for 980Ti and now waiting for AMD R490 or new Fury news if its better than GTX1080 and has HDM2 than ill get it, if not than ill get 1080 (and it wont be enough for 4K too BTW) Of course if you dont care about Ultra/60 than you can do fine with GTX1070 or even 980Ti if you can find it cheaper than 1070. (Although i would just save for 1070 for HDR) If you do care about that sort of thing than even single overclocked 1080 is not enough, even Titan X Pascal is almost enough but not yet really.
SLI is all about luck. If demanding game supports it, you lucky, you get up to 1.8x performance. If not, you stack with 2Gb low performance card. If you serious about 4k 60fps, you really need solid 4GB card. I would strongly recommend getting at least GTX 1060 or Radeon 390x / Fury series. Getting 1070 would be optimal and it would last much longer with 8GB and way stronger performance. You obviously will have to cut graphics settings to get 60fps on 4k. Some benches : http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/msi_radeon_rx_470_gaming_x_8gb_review,18.html
I loved my 660ti's in SLI awesome performance I changed them for a single 970 which gave a slight performance boost I had intended to go SLI 970 but was seduced by the 980ti and went SLI with them. I would say 660ti in SLI is not really up to 4K unless you want to play on low settings with no AA 4K I would look at 1070 or a used 980ti (there are some bargains out there) as a minimum but still not max graphics
c1:A 4k tv would be nice with HDR that's what I'm gonna get later but a real monitor is more suited I think. And I agree with everyone you'll need at least 4gb cards in sli and even then I'd think they'd struggle. Allot of people can't tell much of a difference on 4k tv's from 1080p but maybe it's diff with monitors, I've been toying with trying to find a 27 inch QHD monitor for a time but they are way to exp for me to consider. I'd say get a 480 or 1060 is you want to save money or go with a 1080 for 4k monitor down the road, 1070 would get you there but you'd have to sacrifice settings which isn't so bad. Like the guy said too try out DSR I've been doing it with No Man's Sky at 4k and it's great :nerd:.
I had one 660ti,while I did enjoy it I highly doubt 2 of them would run 4k.Max I would say (guess) is 1440p medium.Older titles (yes) newer titles hell (no).I am curious however how 660ti sli does against a single 780 @ 1165 Mhz core. Do you have Unigine Heaven? I will post my score maybe we can compare if you have some spare time? Still you have a pretty decent set-up regardless.Nz Score coming up.......
I still cannot post an Image on this website! lol Fps: 58.2 Score:1467 Min Fps: 8.5 Max Fps: 121.9 Render-Direct 11 Mode-1920x1080 8xAA Fullscreen Tessellation-Extreme I did notice UH only eating up about 1300Mhz on the memory at these settings so might be a possibility you can get away with higher settings? Btw- I find it really annoying with Amd's new cards naming 480,I keep thinking about Gtx 480 lol-I had to pause there for a second.And Nvidia's new cards will be 1100 Series next? :stewpid:
Yea, I have Unigine Heaven 4.0 Here is my score at these Unigine settings: API set to Direct X 11, Quality set to High, Tessellation at Normal, Anti-Aliasing set at X2, Full screen setting, single monitor set at 1920x1080 Resolution... My score at those bench settings is 2249 @ 89.3 FPS. Let me know what you get at those exact settings with your single 780 Card. As the person prior to you had posted, I do think it's best now for me to look at getting a single high end 1080 card. This is my last time doing the SLI thing, although I have found just about every game I play including Far Cry 4 (Which is a very demanding game) to support Nvidia's SLI very well. It's not "double" what some people think with SLI. I've found with SLI that I'm only able to get about 75% from the second card. In theory that would mean, "better to go single and big, rather than SLI mid-range."
I just ran the same Unigine 4.0 Benchmarks settings you listed. Tessellation-Extreme, DX11, Mode-1920x1080, & 8XAA, Fullscreen. I'm getting 63.3 FPS & Score of 1594. I guess not too shabby for my out dated set up. The 660 series cards we're really wacked out. The 2 that I have are so often confused with the GT660 and a 100 other 660 variants which we're out at that time. (My 2 GTX 660 Ti cards are 2 years old.) Their not like many of the other GTX660 Ti cards that proceeded mine. Later variants of the same cards I have are very weak by comparison. The only reason I bought a Seasonic 850 Power supply is because at the time I knew how power hungry the two cards I have are. The 660 was a model that Nvidia sort of confused a lot of people about. Mine are MSI factory overclocked series. latest Drivers are great and in SLI I'm getting far more than just 2GDDR with them combined. As for this GPU RAM... Over rated selling spec on cards these days. 4GB of GPU RAM is all people ever need as long as your card is kicking a high Freq. I always look at clock freq and other card specs more than total GPU RAM as the big selling point for me. Even the very latest games do not require as much GPU RAM as most people think. PS: I've not got these cards Overclocked either. Stock settings.
To run 4K @ 60FPS, you should ideally get either one Titan X Pascal or 2x 1080 in SLI. The VRAM usage can vary quite a bit but at least 6GB should be required to run 4K satisfactorily.
Man sli has its place for sure but if you have the option to choose (always) get yourself the best (single) card you can afford ie Gtx 1080 for example.I never had sli but I did run a couple diffrent crossfire set-ups and I was a little dissapointed to be honest. Sli 2 mid-range cards like yours for example see you beat my score which at the time the 780s cost like $500 if not more? 660 ti was around $300 -Correction 780s were $600! Sometimes they win against 780 while sometimes or certin games they will loose... If you get em cheep go for it but start fresh just get 1 high-end card in my opinion. Just my guess-You will not be able to run 4k with those cards.
True, I think your right and 4K is not going to happen with my 2 cards. I did run a Unigine bench at Max everything settings and got 63.3 FPS and 1594 score... not bad for 2 old cards, but would be lacking in a 4k set up. This is funny... My brother has a newer vanilla type GTX 760 single card and a 4 year old AMD quad core processor. I shut down my SLI and ran the same extreme settings Unigine 4.0 bench and he was about even with me give or take a few FPS and score... I sort of find that odd because he should have smoked me with a GTX 700 series card, but I'm thinking maybe his old 4 core AMD CPU played a part in this equal score. The old I5 Ivy if Oced right like mine is still a contender. I just keep it nice and cool and no problems at all with it. I agree... Im not doing SLI again. I'm just going really high end single card. With what I spent on 2 cards I could have went really strong on one card. (Second card in SLI does not give double the performance.) Maybe 75% boost, but there is loss. I can even see it in the temp measurement. My second card is always 15C cooler. Proof it's not working as hard as the primary. SLI has it's place, but maybe better one ultra strong single card that 2 midrange cards. Plus with the space taken up by 2 cards I've blocked MOBO slots I wanted to use for the newer MOBO slot SSD drive I would have liked to get to augment my SSD Samsung PRO. Those and the Creative sound card have left me absent any slot room. Sort of dead for expansion.
I'm thinking this card... http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA5754R57878 I really like this card! Friend of mine wants my 2 GTX 660Ti cards for $275 on the pair. Put that cash in on this card and I'm not too far in the hole. My worry is just this one card would not see full potential with my old i5 Ivy even at 4.4Ghz. RAM no worry as I'm at a 2x8 Gb with bios set and running at true 2133Mhz dual channel. Plenty ample enough. I would like a Mobo socket change to newer generation Intel, but gain for gaming on that would be nominal at best. Maybe time to piss the wife off and pop on this card Grounds for divorce, but I gotta be upgrading. It's a passion!
Well ive just run heaven...and got Unigine Heaven Benchmark 4.0 FPS: 168.6 Score: 4248 Min FPS: 36.9 Max FPS: 303.1 System Platform: Windows NT 6.2 (build 9200) 64bit CPU model: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz (3999MHz) x4 GPU model: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 21.21.13.7254 (4095MB) x2 Settings Render: Direct3D11 Mode: 1920x1080 8xAA fullscreen Preset Custom Quality Ultra Tessellation: Extreme Please note the memory for my 980ti`s.....4 gig per...really, and my 980s are detected as running 1580hz on both cards while afterbuner reports 1380hz max, its the latest version and i wouldnt trust what it says.
I hope you don't charge your friend that.. 660ti is sell-able at 70$ max.. Can almost get a 980ti for that price which destroys them.
I wouldn't sell them at that price to a stranger, let alone a friend. For instance, his $275 could buy a new GTX1060 or RX480 which are fantastic, current cards. If he wanted 2 cards, the money could get 2x GTX950's or 2x RX460's, great budget options, just as fast (as 660Ti), but new, new feature sets and with warranty. The link you had to the GTX1080 said $1036. The 1080 is one of the the best cards you can get. But don't pay $1000 or your wife should divorce you. Pay $650 (or less) on something like this: EVGA GeForce GTX 1080 SC GAMING ACX 3.0, 08G-P4-6183-KR, 8GB GDDR5X, LED, DX12 OSD Support (PXOC)