Hello everyone!
Ok, straight to business.
Im in a situation where its required of me to upgrade a PC's hardware for 3d gaming. But unfortunately dont have the big bucks needed to swap it all out with new things.
The PC is a 3d gaming rig, however it will struggle with new 3d games such as Fallout4, the witcher 3 etc. At least in theory!
So what im thinking of doing is adding a 2nd 580 GTX 1.5gb (GV-N580ud-15i rev.2.0) in a SLI config to boost gaming performance overall.
I already possess a 2nd 580 GTX of the same kind from another unused PC.
The motherboard im using (Asus M4A87TD/USB3) does not support SLI, so ill need a new one with same AM2+/AM3 socket support.
CPU is an AMD Phenom II 965 Black Edition 3.4ghz(can be swapped out with an AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition) But to my understanding thats a downgrade for gaming purposes.
Im using a 750watt Power supply. And im not too sure about power management with SLI. Ive never attempted a SLI setup before. But from looking at the card it uses up to 244 watt max each.
So, 244*2 = 488 watts for the SLI. Resulting in 750-488= 262 Watt left for the rest.
The CPU uses max 125 Watt so 262-125= 137 Watt left. In my ears and eyes it seems enough but what do you guys say?
Hope you guys can help me out.
Telwen
Ok, straight to business.
Im in a situation where its required of me to upgrade a PC's hardware for 3d gaming. But unfortunately dont have the big bucks needed to swap it all out with new things.
The PC is a 3d gaming rig, however it will struggle with new 3d games such as Fallout4, the witcher 3 etc. At least in theory!
So what im thinking of doing is adding a 2nd 580 GTX 1.5gb (GV-N580ud-15i rev.2.0) in a SLI config to boost gaming performance overall.
I already possess a 2nd 580 GTX of the same kind from another unused PC.
The motherboard im using (Asus M4A87TD/USB3) does not support SLI, so ill need a new one with same AM2+/AM3 socket support.
CPU is an AMD Phenom II 965 Black Edition 3.4ghz(can be swapped out with an AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition) But to my understanding thats a downgrade for gaming purposes.
Im using a 750watt Power supply. And im not too sure about power management with SLI. Ive never attempted a SLI setup before. But from looking at the card it uses up to 244 watt max each.
So, 244*2 = 488 watts for the SLI. Resulting in 750-488= 262 Watt left for the rest.
The CPU uses max 125 Watt so 262-125= 137 Watt left. In my ears and eyes it seems enough but what do you guys say?
Hope you guys can help me out.
Telwen