Does my ASUS H97 Plus Motherboard support SLI?

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poundej

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Yeah I know, that's why I mentioned i'm on NVIDIA GTX 970s... So does this mean the mobo doesn't support the green team?
 
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holyprof

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Multi-card like Crossfire and SLI is never a good solution and is dependent on future driver support to work for new games. If you already don't have the GTX 970 you mentioned, just buy a GTX 980 or the new GTX 980 Ti which will launch next week. AMD solutions are good as well: R9 290X or the soon to launch R9 390(X)
 
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JackNaylorPE

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I find 2nd tier multi cards are a phenomenal solution offering far more performance per dollar than the top tier cards and the benefits far outweighing the shortocmings:

Two 970s are 50% faster than a 980 and cost less. Have three SLI builds here (780s, 970s, 560 Tis) and:

-(2) 560 Ti's outperformed the 580 by 40% for $100 less
-(2) 970s outperform the 980 by 50% and cost $10 less (net after selling extra set of game coupons)
-longest wait for any AA / AAA game title was BF4 Beta (2 weeks....blame BF4)
-never saw microstuttering
-have seen a game or 2 with no SLI profile but they each ran at 100+ fps on one card

I see nothing to indicate that support for SLI in the future will be any less than it has been in the past. Most of the builds we have done for folks over the years were built SLI / CF capable with SLI capable PSU and MoBo and 1 card to start off.... In the last 3 years tho, I'd say 75% of user builds have been SLI from the getgo.

With 3 kids now in their late teens / early 20s (paying for their own stuff now) and having played 100s of games, all their recent and pending builds are SLI.

If you are the type that buys games on the day of release, yes, it might be frustrating waiting a week or two. But whether due to frugality or waiting for the 1st cupla patches to be released, I don't have many users who do that. BF4 seemed to be an exception there.

But when paying the same or less for you GFX solution.... it comes down to 50% or more fps with (2) 2nd tier cards versus the top tier card and faces with the occasional 1 -2 week wait for stable profiles, I think most will take the performance every time....especially if you are cheap and don't buy games in the 1st week.... I just heard that Witcher 3 for example is now down to $23 on some sites.

I kinda look at it like air conditioning in a car .... if ya live in the south, is the fact that it's not hot enough to use it 15 - 30 days outta the year reason enough to not add the air conditioning option ?
 
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