Old SLI or newer cheaper parts?

[WildCard999]

Long story short I had to sell my system to pay off a bill with high interest. In the meantime I'm borrowing a system but it's not very good (Q6600/4gb/750 ti) and struggles with some of my games so I'll be saving up around $500 in September. My options are pretty limited as I could probably get a 8100/8gb/GTX 1050 (2/3gb) for that cost.

Fortunately though I have a awesome uncle who has given my 3-EVGA GTX 550 ti 2gb for free so I'm thinking of using the $500 to get a much better CPU. I'm thinking of going with the 2600/Gigabyte X470 Ultra and use two of the cards in SLI (I know SLI support is lacking but it's better then nothing). I don't need anything crazy for a graphic card as I'm currently gaming at 1440x900/60hz. This would be temporary until Nvidia releases there RTX mid-low range GPUs.


PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: AMD - Ryzen 5 2600 3.4GHz 6-Core Processor ($165.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: Gigabyte - X470 AORUS ULTRA GAMING ATX AM4 Motherboard ($128.99 @ Amazon)
Memory: G.Skill - Ripjaws V Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($89.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($0.00)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 550 Ti 2GB Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($0.00)
Video Card: EVGA - GeForce GTX 550 Ti 2GB Video Card (2-Way SLI) ($0.00)
Case: Fractal Design - Focus G (White) ATX Mid Tower Case ($49.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($69.93 @ OutletPC)
Total: $504.89
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-08-31 10:52 EDT-0400

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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel - Core i3-8100 3.6GHz Quad-Core Processor ($109.99 @ Amazon)
Motherboard: ASRock - H310M-HDV/M.2 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($58.89 @ SuperBiiz)
Memory: Kingston - HyperX Fury 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2666 Memory ($81.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Storage: Western Digital - Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($0.00)
Video Card: MSI - GeForce GTX 1050 2GB AERO ITX Video Card ($119.99 @ B&H)
Case: Fractal Design - Focus G (White) ATX Mid Tower Case ($49.99 @ Amazon)
Power Supply: EVGA - SuperNOVA G3 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($69.93 @ OutletPC)
Total: $490.78
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2018-08-31 10:58 EDT-0400

 

[jimmysmitty]

A single GTX 1050 will probably outperform two GTX 550 tis. They are 4 generations behind.

 

[WildCard999]

If it's going to be that bad I may just try to buy the 750 ti off him for like $60 as I really want to avoid going with the 8100 or having to dip down to the G5400 & GTX 1050 ti.

 

[jimmysmitty]

I mean a 4 generation gap is pretty big. If it was a 950 or even 750 it might be a lot closer but 550 is a long ways away.

Might be worth using for now and saving some money to buy a better system overall.

 

[WildCard999]

Sounds good, I'll use the borrowed system for now and just have to play with the settings to get around 50-60 FPS.