SLI or better card?

Discussion in 'Videocards - NVIDIA GeForce' started by Pigchild, Mar 4, 2013.

  1. Pigchild

    Pigchild Guest

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    I have a single MSI GTX 660 Ti 2Gb GPU. I did update to the latest drivers and the card performs well, but in hindsight I do wish I would have gone with a higher dollar - higher end card.

    I have only owned this card for 3 weeks and paid about $300 at NewEgg for it. This Friday my plan now is to order a second one and just go SLI or I have a friend that said he would buy this card for $250 at which point I could forget SLI and put that $250 plus the $300 I was going to spend for a second 660 Ti and just buy a much higher end single card.

    Do you think just adding a second 660 Ti for SLI would be the better way to go or take the $250 for this card and go to a much higher end single card?
     
  2. Mraz

    Mraz Master Guru

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    To be completely honest with you, I would sell it and go for MSI 7970 Lightning, you would be set with that card for a while.
     
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    If you can get 250 for the card, get a better card cause, in my view-2 high end sli cards are needed for great gaming, and this allows for upgrading significantly in a few months
     
  4. Pigchild

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    Perhaps I will do that then. My only concern is that this friend that wants to buy my 660 Ti card has a 3 year old Gigabyte AM3 Motherboard. For it's day his MOBO is pretty nice and has 2 PCIe x16 slots.

    He has a great power supply, but my worry is that his PCIe X16 board will not work with my 660 Ti because my card is PCIe 3.0

    Do you think that 660 will be ok to work with PCIe 16x Slot? Obviously it will fit his 16x slot, but will it be stable?
     

  5. Mraz

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    PCI-e 2.0 or 3.0 makes almost no difference it was practically a marketing gimmick, so dont worry about it, and yes your card will work just fine on PCI-e 2.0.
     
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    yeah, x8 x8 on gen 2 vs x8 x8 on gen3 no difference eh? gimmicky eh?

    OP get a 670 /680 and don't look back.
     
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    Mraz is right, you would have to tri or quad high end video cards at high resolutions to benefit from pci e 3.0. titan might be the exception in 2 way sli?
     
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    pcie 2.0 won't be a problem. if you can get that kind of money for it, sell it. get a gtx 670 or hd 7950 (the hd 7950 will be cheaper and will perform great, you also get some good games with it). the gtx 670 on the other hand will have physx. toss a coin.
     
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    yea,it'll be great
     
  10. Pete J

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    I've just upgraded to tri SLI 660 Tis: My advice is get a second 660 Ti. The SLI scaling is phenomenal (1.8-2x).

    So quiet as well and loads of overclocking headroom!
     

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