MSI Z87-G45 Gaming Motherboard SLI

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Hi,
I have a graphics card that only has 2gb, but I need 4gb to run games at ultra nowadays. can I add another graphics card to my setup:

MSI Z87-G45 Gaming Motherboard
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 770 OC Edition 2GB
Intel Core i5 4670K

Thanks in advance.
 
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kira70591
You do not add the total amount of memory together. Each cards buffer stays the same. SLI just enables the cards to work together and pass information back and forth to increase performance. If you want 4gb vram for a SLI setup in the future, you will need to purchase two 4gb cards. Watch Dogs even tries to beat up my GTX 780 SLI setup. It is has great detail, but is poorly optimized so it does not run the greatest on even top tier cards. If you can find another 770 2gb for cheap, I would pick up another one. If not, a SLI 970 setup would give you a good boost in performance.
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My power supply is an Antec High Current Gamer 850W Modular HCG-850M

I can't seem to run watch dogs at ultra without major frame rate drops.
 
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bingo! it's not your card, that game is so poorly optimized for pc it's laughable. i'd look around for solutions that people have used, but it is not your card.
 
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Ok thank you.
but if I needed 4gb for my gpu in the future, would having two 2gb gpu's do the trick? or does it not work like that. I don't know much about SLI.
 
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You do not add the total amount of memory together. Each cards buffer stays the same. SLI just enables the cards to work together and pass information back and forth to increase performance. If you want 4gb vram for a SLI setup in the future, you will need to purchase two 4gb cards. Watch Dogs even tries to beat up my GTX 780 SLI setup. It is has great detail, but is poorly optimized so it does not run the greatest on even top tier cards. If you can find another 770 2gb for cheap, I would pick up another one. If not, a SLI 970 setup would give you a good boost in performance.
 
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totally, though two 70's woud be rad, it would do little to change the broken nature of that game. though i will say check nexusmods.com they have a wonderful community of modders and i would be shocked if they didn't already have a fix for the frame drops.
 
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