Need help with SLI

[Sepsu]

My friend is buying a new card off his friend and selling his old GTX 970, I have a GTX 970 G1 from Gigabyte not the same brand, has an extra fan, not entirely sure about the clock speeds or anything but could I SLI them? or does everything need to be the exact same, would I need another GTX 970 G1 from Gigabyte?

 

[heavyartillary9]

clock speeds can very, but how much vram does each unit have ?

 

[Sepsu]

His card - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121899&gclid=CITBs9e_7c8CFcOJfgod_L8Caw
My card - http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125684&cm_re=GTX_970_G1-_-14-125-684-_-Product

 

[heavyartillary9]

yes you can sli those 2 cards easily, but does his mobo support sli ?

 

[Sepsu]

It would be my motherboard, and I have a Z170X Gaming 7 it should support it.

 

[heavyartillary9]

then as long as your psu can handle 2 cards your all good to go!

 

[Sepsu]

Awesome thanks lol Just wanted to make sure before I got it off him.

 

[Lookin4Info]

My friend is buying a new card off his friend and selling his old GTX 970, I have a GTX 970 G1 from Gigabyte not the same brand, has an extra fan, not entirely sure about the clock speeds or anything but could I SLI them? or does everything need to be the exact same, would I need another GTX 970 G1 from Gigabyte?

Yes, you can always SLI two of the same nVidia model cards even if they are different remakers (by remakers I mean people like Gigabyte, Zotac, ASUS, EVGA, ect just can't think of the right word atm). If they have two different clock speeds the card with the higher clock speed will automatically down clock itself to match the lower one. And as for VRAM, only VRAM on one card is used during SLI.

Hope I could help!

 

[heavyartillary9]

My friend is buying a new card off his friend and selling his old GTX 970, I have a GTX 970 G1 from Gigabyte not the same brand, has an extra fan, not entirely sure about the clock speeds or anything but could I SLI them? or does everything need to be the exact same, would I need another GTX 970 G1 from Gigabyte?

Yes, you can always SLI two of the same nVidia model cards even if they are different remakers (by remakers I mean people like Gigabyte, Zotac, ASUS, EVGA, ect just can't think of the right word atm). If they have two different clock speeds the card with the higher clock speed will automatically down clock itself to match the lower one. And as for VRAM, only VRAM on one card is used during SLI.

Hope I could help!

yes, but vram has to be the same or they wont sli properly!, i figured this outt he hard way a while back...

 

[Lookin4Info]

yes, but vram has to be the same or they wont sli properly!, i figured this outt he hard way a while back...

970 doesn't come in any other vram quantities so it's fine.