650ti 1gb TOP and normal rev in sli

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Hi,

I have ASUS 650ti TOP/OC 1gb and i my friend is giving almost for free one ASUS 650ti 1gb.

Will they run together or do i have to have exactly the same version and clocks?

No boost models!
 
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Nope, you're screwed. You can use 650ti BOOSTs in sli, but the standard 650ti does not support it.

That being said, you can use any card that's the same card - you could use a PNY 760 and an MSI 760, with totally different clock speeds and coolers - the faster one would match the clock speed of the slower one if you didn't overclock it, but that's not a huge deal.
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Nope, you're screwed. You can use 650ti BOOSTs in sli, but the standard 650ti does not support it.

That being said, you can use any card that's the same card - you could use a PNY 760 and an MSI 760, with totally different clock speeds and coolers - the faster one would match the clock speed of the slower one if you didn't overclock it, but that's not a huge deal.
 
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try to sell that for a bit lower price than the actual one and add a little bit more money and you can sli 650 ti boosts if theyre available in your country but most important question is what psu and mobo do you have? you need atleast xfx 650w and a mobo that supports 1 pcie x16 and 1 pcie x8 slots
 
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I just bought some new components, mobo is Gigabytes GA-990XA-UD3 (rev. 3.0) and i have 700watts, latest amd fx. I kept my old GPU for now, but yeah.. Maybe i just have to go with more advanced graphics.. By selling my 650ti top i will get like half the money for something decent :)
 
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I do not believe you can use them through the motherboard like that either. I can't find anything about it on the web, but I'm 85% positive it won't work. That being said, since you're getting the card anyways, trying won't hurt you, and like I already said, if the cards CAN sli, they'll work fine together.
 
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He already HAS one 650ti and is getting the second at a cheap discount... and the 750ti won't be released until more than two weeks from now... and that's if the OP is in the US.
 
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Even if he could SLI the top and normal 650Ti, effectively wasting the added power of the top as the top will run at the 650Ti's clocks.


I'm talking about the BOOST from AMDRadeonHD's post above.
 
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Yeah... but it would still be more powerful than the single TOP by itself.

I'm not saying that your points are invalid, but he already has a 650ti and is getting a second one for basically free - I'm not sure what the problem is then with him putting them in SLI if they'll work.
 
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I will try GTX650Ti and and normal rev together to see if there is enough performance increase. Comparing this result to some versions of cheap 7xx's to see if i need to buy something new :) the other 650ti is practically free :)
 
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No need to apologize, I have that bad habit; writing something, and editing 100 times :p
 
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They won't work in SLI, they don't support it. However you can use the 650Ti for PhysX and the 650Ti TOP for normal gaming. That'll take some load off your main GPU.
 
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kylaenmies

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I have done like this 5 years ago with my previous build. I thought things have evolved a little...
 
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Things have evolved quite a bit, but it still stands where if you buy a (relatively) low-end card like a 650ti (brand new it only costs $120), the manufacturer wouldn't have bothered to spend the money to put SLI capabilities on it and write SLI drivers for it.

Also, when you say evolved a little bit... you realize that doing SLI or Xfire through the PCIe lanes would be a devolution, right? It's the way these technologies started, and we switched to SLI bridges as fast as we possibly could because PCIe simply isn't quick enough to let the GPUs talk together enough to play nicely.
 
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Ok.. I thought todays mobo/PCIe 2.0-> would have been fast enough for low end graphics. Anyway thanks for the great input! Now that i am not in a rush, maybe i'll wait a bit to check out the 750's and to see if there's sli compatibility. Thought 760's aren't that expensive anymore.. Soon i will be way past my original budget:S
 
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You might be right. just trying to find some specs about it, not yet sure if i am reading rumors or actual facts :) trying to find actual info if 660 beats the 750ti :) 750ti price will be almost the same as used 660?
 
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Well thats not entirely correct. The latest AMD cards the 290 and 290x do not require bridges for XFire anymore.
 
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That's true, but I don't imagine that's going to last very long. The reason they get away with that is because we finally have PCIe 3.0, which is a significant upgrade from 2.0... and at the same time, we don't have cards that can saturate its bandwidth. As soon as we do, it's going to be right back to dedicated bridges.

 
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