Time to upgrade My PC ? or get another gtx760 for sli HELP

[YoAndy]

Hello guys,
My extreme PC of a few years ago is getting a bit old, still going strong but i want a little bit more out of my games. What should I upgrade? My board support 3way SLI. I'm not sure if my i7 965 can handle all that.

I'm running windows 10 Samsung monitor 32 inch(1920x1080)
i7 965 extreme(corsair h100 water cooled) not overckloked yet
Asus Rampage iii Extreme Board
Corsair Dominator GT(12gb triple channel 6 channels 2gb per channel)
EVGA GTX 760 2gb Super Clocked ACX cooler.
PSU Corsair GS700 Bronze.

I play a lot of games I also play on xbox Because my wife is obsessed with Minecraft she uses the pc more than I do(she likes Minecraft on PC better). I get pretty decent fps in Battlefiled 4 ultra settings over 60fps but i want to get a bit more but nothing too crazy. Shuld I sli my GTX 760? What do you guys think?.
Thank you in advance.

 

[Riot55]

It seems like you really want to ignore most people's good advice about more modern single card setups outperforming and having better, more consistent performance. Yes you can probably get a second card for cheaper, but in my experience building for the last 15 years it's better to just get something newer than to try to add a bunch of old stuff together. It sounds like you've kind of made up your mind if you keep posting old SLI articles, so try it out and report back!

 

[Gam3r01]

I know the list of games that support SLI, what that list wont tell you is how well it will scale. A good number of those titles will see only marginal benefits.


As already said, it seems you have made your choice before you even made this post.

 

[YoAndy]

It seems like you really want to ignore most people's good advice about more modern single card setups outperforming and having better, more consistent performance. Yes you can probably get a second card for cheaper, but in my experience building for the last 15 years it's better to just get something newer than to try to add a bunch of old stuff together. It sounds like you've kind of made up your mind if you keep posting old SLI articles, so try it out and report back!

It seems like most people don't want to understand. This is 2017 we are not in the early 2000's anymore and most new games are made for SLI, Here are just a few samples of games using the 700 series geforce video cards from 3 years ago in single and SLI Mode.
Battlefield 3
image: http://legitreviews.com/images/reviews/2227/bf3.jpg

Boishock
http://legitreviews.com/images/reviews/2227/bioshock.jpg

http://legitreviews.com/images/reviews/2227/fc3.jpg
Hitman
http://legitreviews.com/images/reviews/2227/hitman.jpg
Metro
http://legitreviews.com/images/reviews/2227/metro.jpg

 

[madmatt30]

^ most new games ???
Battlefield 3 is from 2012.

To reiterate , yes this is 2017 , since 2015 proper dual card support has been sketchy at best - in the last 6 months its pretty much disappeared completely on new titles.
On your example of buying a second hand 760 for $100, why not sell your 760 for $100 & spend $200 on a 480 4gb or 1060 3gb ??
Half the power draw, twice the vram , at least the same performance as a perfectly supported sli title, twice as much performance on a non supported sli title.

Coming from someone who dumped a 280x crossfire setup & replaced with a single 970 18 months ago without a single regret.

 

[YoAndy]

^ most new games ???
Battlefield 3 is from 2012.

Yeah that's even more sad. People keep talking about games not been able to support SLI when games have been able to do that for a long time now. And they have been giving gamers big gains using multiple GPU'S.

 

[PC-4LIFE]

^ most new games ???
Battlefield 3 is from 2012.

Yeah that's even more sad. People keep talking about games not been able to support SLI when games have been able to do that for a long time now. And they have been giving gamers big gains using multiple GPU'S.

Man you do whatever you want.
Your question was "Time to upgrade My PC ? or get another gtx760 for sli HELP", we said upgrade, you don't wanna. End off.

 

[uguv]

^ most new games ???
Battlefield 3 is from 2012.

Yeah that's even more sad. People keep talking about games not been able to support SLI when games have been able to do that for a long time now. And they have been giving gamers big gains using multiple GPU'S.

Just because a game supports SLI doesn't mean it scales well. You ignored his whole post except for quoting that one line and taking it out of context.

 

[YoAndy]

^ most new games ???
Battlefield 3 is from 2012.

Yeah that's even more sad. People keep talking about games not been able to support SLI when games have been able to do that for a long time now. And they have been giving gamers big gains using multiple GPU'S.

Just because a game supports SLI doesn't mean it scales well. You ignored his whole post except for quoting that one line and taking it out of context.

You are the one taking things out of contest I did put links of pictures with a lot of games using SLI and they are doing a pretty good job scaling. One of my friends he plays in 4K over 60fps high sittings using 3 gtx 980 SLI without SLI he is not able to even play at 30fps stable. Sometimes we need to try things ourselves before making conclusions.

 

[PC-4LIFE]

^ most new games ???
Battlefield 3 is from 2012.

Yeah that's even more sad. People keep talking about games not been able to support SLI when games have been able to do that for a long time now. And they have been giving gamers big gains using multiple GPU'S.

Just because a game supports SLI doesn't mean it scales well. You ignored his whole post except for quoting that one line and taking it out of context.

You are the one taking things out of contest I did put links of pictures with a lot of games using SLI and they are doing a pretty good job scaling. One of my friends he plays in 4K over 60fps high sittings using 3 gtx 980 SLI without SLI he is not able to even play at 30fps stable. Sometimes we need to try things ourselves before making conclusions.

So go ahead and run SLI. We aren't stopping you.

 

[madmatt30]

At 4k you have no choice but to use more than 1 card to stand any chance of running respectable fps on the games 'that support it & scale well'
Which is in all honesty not many at all.
We are still 2 years away from solid 60fps 4k gaming on a practical level

At 1080p or 1440p a higher vram high-mid or low-high end single card solution will always perform more consistently than 2 mediocre 4 year old 2gb vram cards - ALWAYS !!

you are aware that sli'ing 2gb cards still only gives you 2gb total vram ?? & that is a big pitfall in current gen games on it's own even ignoring multiple card scaling issues.

There were less than a dozen titles that made better use of my old 280x cf solution than a single 970 at the cost of an extra 270w of power draw.

These were cards that were considerably more powerful than your current 760 .

A $200 4gb 480 will just crush a pair of 760 sli 2gb cards in every conceivable scenario I can think of.

 

[Gam3r01]

SLI in general does have its places.
One of those places is not a midrange card from 3 gens ago.

 

[YoAndy]

At 4k you have no choice but to use more than 1 card to stand any chance of running respectable fps on the games 'that support it & scale well'
Which is in all honesty not many at all.
We are still 2 years away from solid 60fps 4k gaming on a practical level

At 1080p or 1440p a higher vram high-mid or low-high end single card solution will always perform more consistently than 2 mediocre 4 year old 2gb vram cards - ALWAYS !!

you are aware that sli'ing 2gb cards still only gives you 2gb total vram ?? & that is a big pitfall in current gen games on it's own even ignoring multiple card scaling issues.

There were less than a dozen titles that made better use of my old 280x cf solution than a single 970 at the cost of an extra 270w of power draw.

These were cards that were considerably more powerful than your current 760 .

A $200 4gb 480 will just crush a pair of 760 sli 2gb cards in every conceivable scenario I can think of.

You have a few things right and few things wrong, First the gtx 760 is not that slow, you are underestimating the card. A single EVGA FTW GTX 760 is way faster actually is twice as fast as the old gtx 480 1.5 gb and the 4gb version is not that common but still slower:\ here is a quick comparison between the 2 cards:
GTX 760 ------------------ -------------------------------------------------GTX 480
Significantly higher clock speed 1,085 MHz vs 726 MHz Around 50% higher clock speed
Significantly better 3DMark vantage graphics score 30,123 vs 20,100 Around 50% better
Higher effective memory clock speed 6,008 MHz vs 3,800 MHz Around 60% higher effective memory clock speed
Better floating-point performance 2,500 GFLOPS vs 1,393 GFLOPS Around 80% better floating-point performance
Higher texture rate 94.1 GTexel/s vs 43.6 GTexel/s Around 2.2x higher texture rate
Significantly higher memory clock speed 1,502 MHz vs 950 MHz Around 60% higher memory clock speed
More shading units 1,152 vs 480 672 more shading units
More texture mapping units 96 vs 60 36 more texture mapping units
Lower TDP 170W vs 250W

I don't really like AMD products, never had any so if you are talking about the Radeon RX 480 4GB you are right.

 

[PC-4LIFE]

At 4k you have no choice but to use more than 1 card to stand any chance of running respectable fps on the games 'that support it & scale well'
Which is in all honesty not many at all.
We are still 2 years away from solid 60fps 4k gaming on a practical level

At 1080p or 1440p a higher vram high-mid or low-high end single card solution will always perform more consistently than 2 mediocre 4 year old 2gb vram cards - ALWAYS !!

you are aware that sli'ing 2gb cards still only gives you 2gb total vram ?? & that is a big pitfall in current gen games on it's own even ignoring multiple card scaling issues.

There were less than a dozen titles that made better use of my old 280x cf solution than a single 970 at the cost of an extra 270w of power draw.

These were cards that were considerably more powerful than your current 760 .

A $200 4gb 480 will just crush a pair of 760 sli 2gb cards in every conceivable scenario I can think of.

You have a few things right and few things wrong, First the gtx 760 is not that slow, you are underestimating the card. A single EVGA FTW GTX 760 is way faster actually is twice as fast as the old gtx 480 1.5 gb and the 4gb version is not that common but still slower:\ here is a quick comparison between the 2 cards:
GTX 760 ------------------ -------------------------------------------------GTX 480
Significantly higher clock speed 1,085 MHz vs 726 MHz Around 50% higher clock speed
Significantly better 3DMark vantage graphics score 30,123 vs 20,100 Around 50% better
Higher effective memory clock speed 6,008 MHz vs 3,800 MHz Around 60% higher effective memory clock speed
Better floating-point performance 2,500 GFLOPS vs 1,393 GFLOPS Around 80% better floating-point performance
Higher texture rate 94.1 GTexel/s vs 43.6 GTexel/s Around 2.2x higher texture rate
Significantly higher memory clock speed 1,502 MHz vs 950 MHz Around 60% higher memory clock speed
More shading units 1,152 vs 480 672 more shading units
More texture mapping units 96 vs 60 36 more texture mapping units
Lower TDP 170W vs 250W

You're telling a Grandmaster he did something wrong? lel.

 

[YoAndy]

SLI in general does have its places.
One of those places is not a midrange card from 3 gens ago.

You are totally right.

 

[YoAndy]

At 4k you have no choice but to use more than 1 card to stand any chance of running respectable fps on the games 'that support it & scale well'
Which is in all honesty not many at all.
We are still 2 years away from solid 60fps 4k gaming on a practical level

At 1080p or 1440p a higher vram high-mid or low-high end single card solution will always perform more consistently than 2 mediocre 4 year old 2gb vram cards - ALWAYS !!

you are aware that sli'ing 2gb cards still only gives you 2gb total vram ?? & that is a big pitfall in current gen games on it's own even ignoring multiple card scaling issues.

There were less than a dozen titles that made better use of my old 280x cf solution than a single 970 at the cost of an extra 270w of power draw.

These were cards that were considerably more powerful than your current 760 .

A $200 4gb 480 will just crush a pair of 760 sli 2gb cards in every conceivable scenario I can think of.

You have a few things right and few things wrong, First the gtx 760 is not that slow, you are underestimating the card. A single EVGA FTW GTX 760 is way faster actually is twice as fast as the old gtx 480 1.5 gb and the 4gb version is not that common but still slower:\ here is a quick comparison between the 2 cards:
GTX 760 ------------------ -------------------------------------------------GTX 480
Significantly higher clock speed 1,085 MHz vs 726 MHz Around 50% higher clock speed
Significantly better 3DMark vantage graphics score 30,123 vs 20,100 Around 50% better
Higher effective memory clock speed 6,008 MHz vs 3,800 MHz Around 60% higher effective memory clock speed
Better floating-point performance 2,500 GFLOPS vs 1,393 GFLOPS Around 80% better floating-point performance
Higher texture rate 94.1 GTexel/s vs 43.6 GTexel/s Around 2.2x higher texture rate
Significantly higher memory clock speed 1,502 MHz vs 950 MHz Around 60% higher memory clock speed
More shading units 1,152 vs 480 672 more shading units
More texture mapping units 96 vs 60 36 more texture mapping units
Lower TDP 170W vs 250W

You're telling a Grandmaster he did something wrong? lel.

LOL HAHAHA

 

[madmatt30]

Gtx 480?? Why on earth would I even bring a close to 7 year old card into the equation??
I'm talking about a RX 480 , amd's current release card.
I also know exactly how powerful a 760 is , I've owned 2 in the past, I've ownes close to every card released in the last 6 years at one point or another apart from the highest tier models.
The 760 is weak for current gen gaming , it was nvidias mid tier card from 2 generations past - it wasn't 'that impressive' when it was new.

A brand new 480 4gb with a 1 year warranty is less than $200 , I can't even begin to understand why you'd think spending $100 on a 3 year old used 760 would be a better idea.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

I think this conversation has gone on long enough.

Time to close it before it degenerates any further and sanctions have to be levied.