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Sli/Crossfire which should i get

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June 25, 2014 8:59:48 PM

Hello. I have read many threads on here about the the difference but i still dont understand which one i should get. I am going to be gaming and watching movies and have only 1 monitor 1080p and a gtx 780 3gb gpu. Does it really matter as i dont want to add more graphics cards later on and dont plan on overclocking. My build so far is http://pcpartpicker.com/user/apatel18/saved/z2vbt6

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June 25, 2014 9:05:15 PM

I dont think you need to do anything at all, at 1080p, a gtx780 will be more than sufficient on its own.
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June 25, 2014 9:05:55 PM

LOL, for 1080P your gpu is already overkill so adding a new gpu will gain nothing.

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June 25, 2014 9:08:03 PM

nVidia join up their graphics cards using what they call SLI (Google it). Radeon use what they call Crossfire.

GTX (like your GTX780) are nVidia cards and so to use more than one, you 'put them in SLI'. So for with two cards, you plug them both into a motherboard that is SLI compatible and attached an 'SLI bridge' between them. The attach the power supply connectors to both.

The you use the nVidia Control Panel to get them to work together in SLI (Google it)
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June 25, 2014 9:19:58 PM

So does my motherboard have to be SLI compatible since its an nvidia gpu. Would my selected motherboard work or not.
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July 3, 2014 7:52:03 PM

SLI requires at least x8 PCIE slots, however I saw it only support x4/x4 or x16. A bit strange config considering the board looked like it will support SLI. I guess to be safe, maybe you will need a higher end board for good SLI support. CF can run even at x4 PCIE slot.
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