I've been thinking of selling my gtx 980 and going for SLI 970(they cost less than 400 eur for both), i know im a fucking idiot but its bound to have better performance than a single 980, my question is can i mix and match manufacturers like lets say MSI and Gigabyte? I come from AMD where you can throw in a potato along with an rx480 and it will crossfire
>>61575719
I have 2 970 in SLI, they are all as low as 150 EUR each. You can mix manufactures, no problem, but try to match base clocks to avoid a well known problem I, and others had: when running at max freq. both cards downclocks a lot.
I have 2 same cards model but their chips are different asic quality, so they are clocked slightly different. I had to OC a little one of them (12 Mhz only) to match the good one, and the problem disappeared,
SLI support has been waning the past couple of years.
>>61576170
This.
Developers are slowly ditching sli support, in hidden agreements with card manufacturers, so they can sell new cards every year, in exchange for a compensation.
Maximum jewing.
Don't use SLI or crossfire. Microstuttering is a bitch.
>>61576440
well AAA games still seem to support it desu and for indie games or smaller titles the 970 will most likely do fine
>>61576456
Not much with Goyvidya, I only saw it 2 or 3 times in years. in some titles.
Cannot say about crossfire, they said its microstuttering hell.