Hi all, so i had been running GTX 970 SLI setup but i decided to upgrade to single GTX 1080 (i don't even know if it will be an upgrade but i got sick of SLI and bad or no scaling in most games). I have already sold 1 of my GTX 970 and i will be picking up MSI GTX 1080 Gaming X 8G tommorow.
Now actually i want to ask 2 questions here.
1. Should i keep 1 of my GTX 970 as a physics card? I was running Firestrike test the other day and saw horrible frames in physics test, i have an i7 4770k overclocked to 4.3GHz and i am talking about less then 40fps in physics test. Is it worth keeping a card which i can still sell for ~$200 or the physicsx cards are things of the past? Will it be a considerable performance boost or just not worth keeping a card which i can sell for good money and invest it into something else worthwhile like an SSD (which i still don't have lol).
2. So i had a Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional sound card which i had to remove because of my SLI 970's as they were blocking the only PCI port in which card was plugged in. Now since that port will be free if i put my card into it, will it scale my GTX 1080 into x8 instead of x16 or PCIE lanes are different from PCI? Although after removing it i immediately noticed HUGE sound clarity and quality drop which is strange considering how old the card is and my mobo which is Maximus VI hero should atleast have as good onboard audio by now but it doesn't.
EDIT: Another question comes to mind, should i remove all of NVIDIA's entries before installing my new card or only driver ones? These are the entries in program and features:
NVIDIA 3D Controller Vision Driver 369.04
NVIDIA 3D Vision Driver 372.70
NVIDIA GeForce Experience 2.11.4.0
NVIDIA Graphics Driver 372.70
NVIDIA HD Audio Driver 1.3.34.15
NVIDIA PhysX
Duh why so many entries and why on earth an NVIDIA HD Audio Driver? What an headache.
Now actually i want to ask 2 questions here.
1. Should i keep 1 of my GTX 970 as a physics card? I was running Firestrike test the other day and saw horrible frames in physics test, i have an i7 4770k overclocked to 4.3GHz and i am talking about less then 40fps in physics test. Is it worth keeping a card which i can still sell for ~$200 or the physicsx cards are things of the past? Will it be a considerable performance boost or just not worth keeping a card which i can sell for good money and invest it into something else worthwhile like an SSD (which i still don't have lol).
2. So i had a Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Professional sound card which i had to remove because of my SLI 970's as they were blocking the only PCI port in which card was plugged in. Now since that port will be free if i put my card into it, will it scale my GTX 1080 into x8 instead of x16 or PCIE lanes are different from PCI? Although after removing it i immediately noticed HUGE sound clarity and quality drop which is strange considering how old the card is and my mobo which is Maximus VI hero should atleast have as good onboard audio by now but it doesn't.
EDIT: Another question comes to mind, should i remove all of NVIDIA's entries before installing my new card or only driver ones? These are the entries in program and features:
NVIDIA 3D Controller Vision Driver 369.04
NVIDIA 3D Vision Driver 372.70
NVIDIA GeForce Experience 2.11.4.0
NVIDIA Graphics Driver 372.70
NVIDIA HD Audio Driver 1.3.34.15
NVIDIA PhysX
Duh why so many entries and why on earth an NVIDIA HD Audio Driver? What an headache.
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