Psu for dual gtx 970

[kratosjak]

Hi friends.
I am planning on purchasing a second gtx 970 asus strix edition. Wats the recommended psu for gtx 970 sli
My system specs
Cpu AMD FX 8350@ 4GHZ no O.C
Mobo Asus M5A99fx pro r2.0
Ram corsair vengence 8gb@1600
Case Corsair Carbide 500R
PSU Corsair RM850 gold certified
Gpu Asus strix gtx 970

Is this enough for a second gtx 970?

 

[RobCrezz]

Yeah your RM850 is enough for SLI 970.

 

[Hlsgsz]

Hi friends.
I am planning on purchasing a second gtx 970 asus strix edition. Wats the recommended psu for gtx 970 sli
My system specs
Cpu AMD FX 8350@ 4GHZ no O.C
Mobo Asus M5A99fx pro r2.0
Ram corsair vengence 8gb@1600
Case Corsair Carbide 500R
PSU Corsair RM850 gold certified
Gpu Asus strix gtx 970

Is this enough for a second gtx 970?

The PSU is fine for that, but i'd be careful in getting another 970 for that system. That CPU will not be able to "feed" the cards.

 

[kratosjak]

Wats ur suggestion regarding cpu ?

 

[Epicness937]

i got a 970 sli on a 850w so thats fine but teh cpu is not enough if you can get a good i5 6600k or i7 6700k or something strong to work them

 

[Vic 40]

Just try it out with the current cpu and see what performance boost you get.If not as high as you could expect look at upgrading the motherboard cpu.

 

[kratosjak]

Yeah your RM850 is enough for SLI 970.

Friend of mine is using same fx 8350 with dual gtx 980ti's. But we didn't notice any lags.
Intel i7 processors r way too expensive. But for gaming fx 8350 does the job.

 

[Epicness937]

Yeah your RM850 is enough for SLI 970.

Friend of mine is using same fx 8350 with dual gtx 980ti's. But we didn't notice any lags.
Intel i7 processors r way too expensive. But for gaming fx 8350 does the job.

wow he is ether lieing or overclocked the crap out of the cpu for that performance well try it and see how it goes and chose if you are going to upgrade

 

[kratosjak]

He over clocks to 4.4GHZ with liquid cooler 240mm. But that 400 mhz I don't think is going to make any difference? ??. Coming to our conversation
I7 6700k has 4 core 8 threads and fx 8350 has 8 cores and 8 threads . Both r at 4GHZ clock speeds. I think performance is not that significant. Also amd fx processors don't have DDR 4 support or don't come with pcie 3.0. May be these little features r making intel i7 faster??. Any way I have ordered a second 970 card. I will try out and inform . If my processor bottlenecks then I may wait for zen cpu. Sorry I don't buy intel not because it's expensive but ever since I started use pc Amd processors were my choice that's y. But gpu wise I always go for nvidia

 

[Epicness937]

He over clocks to 4.4GHZ with liquid cooler 240mm. But that 400 mhz I don't think is going to make any difference? ??. Coming to our conversation
I7 6700k has 4 core 8 threads and fx 8350 has 8 cores and 8 threads . Both r at 4GHZ clock speeds. I think performance is not that significant. Also amd fx processors don't have DDR 4 support or don't come with pcie 3.0. May be these little features r making intel i7 faster??. Any way I have ordered a second 970 card. I will try out and inform . If my processor bottlenecks then I may wait for zen cpu. Sorry I don't buy intel not because it's expensive but ever since I started use pc Amd processors were my choice that's y. But gpu wise I always go for nvidia

intel cpus are very expensive however a 4 core i7 will outmatch a 8 core 8350 most of the time mostly because a amd core and intel core are not exactly the same
however a fx 8350 is good as you dont have to upgrade your motherboard and a i7 wont give too much of a proformance increase on a 970 sli

 

[Vic 40]

Any way I have ordered a second 970 card. I will try out and inform . If my processor bottlenecks then I may wait for zen cpu. Sorry I don't buy intel not because it's expensive but ever since I started use pc Amd processors were my choice that's y. But gpu wise I always go for nvidia

So what was wrong with my answer? Just being curious ..