Upgrading to gtx 970 sli

[Farfisa]

Hello,
I currently have a single GtX 970 from MSI and I was thinking of upgrading to a GTX 970 sli. I have a couple questions :
-Is my i5 4440 going to bottleneck my SLI?
-Is my 650W EVGA PSU going to be enough to power my system?
-What motherboard should I buy to upgrade? Is LGA 1150 outdated? I would rather wait to change CPU.

Full specs :
Asus H81M-E
i5 4440
MSI GTX 970
16 Gb RAM
500Gb Samsung SSD
1Tb HDD
EVGA SuperNova 650W Gold
Fractal Design r5

Thanks a lot for your answers!

 

[Rogue Leader]

PSU is a great quality one but 650w for SLI is pushing it, you really want more like 850.

LGA 1150 is outdated, if you have to spend $100+ on a Z97 motherboard to do this its totally not worth it.

Skip the extra 970 and motherboard and PSU and buy a GTX 1070 its faster, more compatible with everything, and will work in your system as is. It will come out cheaper to boot after all the updates you need! And you can sell your 970 and get some money back.

 

[Mousemonkey]

Old HX620 and 970's in SLi running just fine here, 850w is overkill IMHO.

 

[Rogue Leader]

Old HX620 and 970's in SLi running just fine here, 850w is overkill IMHO.

Sure, but still with the expense of needing a new motherboard and the second GTX 970, its still not worth it, better off selling the one hes got and buying a 1070.

 

[Farfisa]

PSU is a great quality one but 650w for SLI is pushing it, you really want more like 850.

LGA 1150 is outdated, if you have to spend $100+ on a Z97 motherboard to do this its totally not worth it.

Skip the extra 970 and motherboard and PSU and buy a GTX 1070 its faster, more compatible with everything, and will work in your system as is. It will come out cheaper to boot after all the updates you need! And you can sell your 970 and get some money back.

All right all right. It looks like what you are suggesting is the smart and logical way to upgrade my pc, but look at a plan that I have thought of :
-I buy a Z97 mobo LGA 1150 (I hope that you could suggest a good model, since I don't know much about mobos)
-I buy some new DDR4 RAM
-With my old mobo, my old RAM and a case and a PSU that I have in extra, I buy an HDD and a 60$ GPU and I build a new PC that I sell (hopefully with some profit) as an office desktop
-I buy another GTX 970 (used) for around 175$
-I enjoy my now supercharged PC and save up some money for an i5 4690k that I will overclock

Soooo there's two things I'm not too shure about this plan :
-Will the 4690k be good enough for a couple of years?
-Is it too risky to buy a used GPU even if i test it before buying it?


What do you think?

Thanks

 

[Farfisa]

Old HX620 and 970's in SLi running just fine here, 850w is overkill IMHO.

So you never ever got any problems with a 620W PSU?

 

[Rogue Leader]

PSU is a great quality one but 650w for SLI is pushing it, you really want more like 850.

LGA 1150 is outdated, if you have to spend $100+ on a Z97 motherboard to do this its totally not worth it.

Skip the extra 970 and motherboard and PSU and buy a GTX 1070 its faster, more compatible with everything, and will work in your system as is. It will come out cheaper to boot after all the updates you need! And you can sell your 970 and get some money back.

All right all right. It looks like what you are suggesting is the smart and logical way to upgrade my pc, but look at a plan that I have thought of :
-I buy a Z97 mobo LGA 1150 (I hope that you could suggest a good model, since I don't know much about mobos)
-I buy some new DDR4 RAM
-With my old mobo, my old RAM and a case and a PSU that I have in extra, I buy an HDD and a 60$ GPU and I build a new PC that I sell (hopefully with some profit) as an office desktop
-I buy another GTX 970 (used) for around 175$
-I enjoy my now supercharged PC and save up some money for an i5 4690k that I will overclock

Soooo there's two things I'm not too shure about this plan :
-Will the 4690k be good enough for a couple of years?
-Is it too risky to buy a used GPU even if i test it before buying it?


What do you think?

Thanks

There is no such thing as DDR4 Z97 Boards, Anything Haswell LGA 1150 all use DDR3.

Your plan is with fault, old used last gen equipment isn't worth much, you'd likely break even or even lose money on this idea. You'll be literally spending more to lose money and not even get the best performance you could be. GTX 970's in SLI while they put up better FPS numbers than a 1070 come with a host of problems. Not all games support SLI, theres microstutter, other performance issues that show up sometimes, and it uses a lot of power, more heat, etc.

Much cheaper overall, sell your GTX 970, buy GTX 1070, upgrade your whole system to Kabylake or whatnot in a year or two or whenever you deem ready to upgrade, and re-use the GTX 1070 because it should still be very viable for a long time. In a couple years the 4690k will be unavailable except used. Not a good idea to plan your upgrades on equipment thats discontinued.

 

[Farfisa]

PSU is a great quality one but 650w for SLI is pushing it, you really want more like 850.

LGA 1150 is outdated, if you have to spend $100+ on a Z97 motherboard to do this its totally not worth it.

Skip the extra 970 and motherboard and PSU and buy a GTX 1070 its faster, more compatible with everything, and will work in your system as is. It will come out cheaper to boot after all the updates you need! And you can sell your 970 and get some money back.

All right all right. It looks like what you are suggesting is the smart and logical way to upgrade my pc, but look at a plan that I have thought of :
-I buy a Z97 mobo LGA 1150 (I hope that you could suggest a good model, since I don't know much about mobos)
-I buy some new DDR4 RAM
-With my old mobo, my old RAM and a case and a PSU that I have in extra, I buy an HDD and a 60$ GPU and I build a new PC that I sell (hopefully with some profit) as an office desktop
-I buy another GTX 970 (used) for around 175$
-I enjoy my now supercharged PC and save up some money for an i5 4690k that I will overclock

Soooo there's two things I'm not too shure about this plan :
-Will the 4690k be good enough for a couple of years?
-Is it too risky to buy a used GPU even if i test it before buying it?


What do you think?

Thanks

There is no such thing as DDR4 Z97 Boards, Anything Haswell LGA 1150 all use DDR3.

Your plan is with fault, old used last gen equipment isn't worth much, you'd likely break even or even lose money on this idea. You'll be literally spending more to lose money and not even get the best performance you could be. GTX 970's in SLI while they put up better FPS numbers than a 1070 come with a host of problems. Not all games support SLI, theres microstutter, other performance issues that show up sometimes, and it uses a lot of power, more heat, etc.

Much cheaper overall, sell your GTX 970, buy GTX 1070, upgrade your whole system to Kabylake or whatnot in a year or two or whenever you deem ready to upgrade, and re-use the GTX 1070 because it should still be very viable for a long time. In a couple years the 4690k will be unavailable except used. Not a good idea to plan your upgrades on equipment thats discontinued.

Ok thanks again I might do that but isn't the 1070 totally overkill for 1080p? The reason I was planning to upgrade is because I wanted to have solid 100fps in all games. Isn't there any GPU that would be less expensive and would be as good for my needs?

 

[Rogue Leader]

1070 will give you 100fps at 1080p in most titles. You could save some money and go 6gb 1060 and that will give you over 60 fps at 1080p in prettymuch everything. Yes the 1070 is overkill for 1080p, but so is 2 GTX 970 in SLI, I was just matching it.

The reality is as well the GTX 1070 being more powerful will give you more bang for your buck as it gets older, it will perform better than a 1060 if/when games continue to get more complex.