980 ti hybrid SLI?

[crimsonrange]

Hi, I am upgrading my PC and I would like to get some point of views from the community. I was planning on upgrading to 2 way SLI 980 ti hybrid, but I wasn't entirely sure if i wanted to do that. I currently have :

CPU: i7 5820k with Corsair Hydro Series H105 Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
GPU: 2 way sli MSI GeForce GTX 970 4GD5T OC 4GB
Ram: Corsair Vengeance LPX 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR4 2666MHz
Mobo: MSI X99S sli plus
PSU: Rosewill RX850-S-B - Xtreme Series 850-Watt (80 PLUS Bronze)
SSD: 500gb of SSD

I want to know if my upgrade will have enough performance boost on mostly gaming and some light rendering. I am also wondering is my Mobo efficient enough for my upgrade, since the ratings on my current Mobo is not the greatest. I was thinking of getting MSI X99A SLI Plus. If you guys have some better suggestions on a Mobo plz tell me, and please make it under $500 for the Mobo.

I am also willing to change my PSU if it isn't efficient enough. I am also looking at the copper version of the 980 ti Hybrid, and was wondering is there major difference in them?

I have a 1440p 144htz monitor

I am running it on Windows 8.1 BTW

 

[JUICEhunter]

970 SLI is pretty fast still, as a 780ti owner I was tempted by the 980ti because it is an amazing GPU but am personally holding out for the big Pascal single GPU and you may be interested an SLI version of that if you can wait aprox 10 months.

 

[Reaper_7799]

If you have sli 970's right now, yes you will get a considerable bump in performance at 1440P but I would wait till flagship comes out for pascal and then sli those next year, that way if you wanted to go to 4K, the performance of big pascal x2 should be high enough above 60 fps all ultra. If you got the money to burn though, there's no harm.

 

[Reaper_7799]

The hydro is probably a little better cause it is a full waterblock and I'm 90% sure it's custom pcb vs reference pcb for the hybrid but I do know that the power phase is better on the hydro.

You'd need a custom loop though or a swiftech 240 all in one that allows you to customize the loop. In the end though if you don't modify bios, the hybrid has no problem overclocking pretty high. Mine hits a wall at 1510 Mhz or thereabouts but I've seen a few at 1530 and 1545 Mhz with stock bios.