Difference between GTX 970 and 970 SLi?

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Thing of it as doubling your PCs power! the 970 is a beast on it's own and you can max out any game with it, it would be way overkill to buy 2 and SLI them, one card will last you at least 3 years. You would need at least a 750w PSU

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Thing of it as doubling your PCs power! the 970 is a beast on it's own and you can max out any game with it, it would be way overkill to buy 2 and SLI them, one card will last you at least 3 years. You would need at least a 750w PSU
 
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I like that explanation. Although calling it overkill is relative. It'd be necessary for 60+ FPS on a heavily-modded version of Skyrim or Crysis 3.

 

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SLI is an Nvidia technology (Crossfire for AMD) that allows the installation of multiple GPUs in one system with a connection between them. So there will be physically multiple GPU cards and a connection between them.

Nvidia is constantly updating their drivers to allow support for more games so it is important to keep updated. Still I hear some games don't scale correctly or something, still it is a great technology.

That is to the best of my knowledge.

 

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This is true...
 
to be blunt there isnt a lot of games that would push a single 970 to breaking. crysis 3 might but only because its so bugged on the first level. after that you will easily hit 60fps constant off a single 970.

while above is rite that skyrim will cripple most cards the 970 has more than enough vram as skyrim is limited to 3.1gigs of graphics mem usage... its also so broken on the cpu side that you will always have fps issues regardless of the gpu used.

if you have a 60hz screen there really will be no need for the other card atm, as sli works best when vsync is used which will negate most of the performance of the second card if your already hovering around 60fps minimum.
so i would say unless your wanting to run 4k or your screen is 120-144hz just stick with the 1 card for now and if needed get another in a year or so.
 

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I'm looking for ASUS VG248QE 24-inch LED-lit Monitor for ultra quality gaming and i don't know much about resloution bro
 

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Agreed. Thanks bro