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I currently have a single EVGA GTX 670 2GB blower-style card that is watercooled with my CPU loop with a full cover EK waterblock. I had this card since 2012 and never had the need to upgrade since it's plenty enough for my use and runs games such as GTA V and NFS Payback at medium to high settings at 1080p at 60 fps and higher.
The card has been slowly dying for the past year and it keeps getting random black screen when the card hits 85%-100% utilization or when the load spikes, such as when a game finishes loading, the only way to fix it is to underclock the GPU core speed by 40mhz and roughly every month I have to underclock it by extra 5mhz as the black screen appear again which makes me think that the card is slowly dying. That is perfectly fine since the card has few years of heavy gaming and underclocking under it's belt.
Currently a cheap Asus GTX 670 2GB poped up near me, the seller said he had it since new but had very low useage and it still even has the clear plastic protection on it, I don't really care if it's virtually new or heavly used, as long it works since it's cheap anyways. Since I have no idea when my card will die because like I said, I have to underclock it by 5mhz roughly every month and I can't afford to be left without this PC since I do a lot of college work on it and waiting a week for a new card to come in will make me fall behind.
So what I was thinking is to get that Asus card since its close and cheap and switch it out when my card dies but I have no idea when this will be so instead of the card lying around and since I never had a SLI PC and never expierenced SLI, I was thinking of SLI'ing the cards, my motherboard supports SLI and it came with an SLI bridge so I don't have to get one. But the question is, will I run into issues with my card since it has to be underclocked because its dying and will I need to underclock it more? I have no idea if SLI puts extra stress on the card since it appears my card black screens when its under heavy load or gets a load spikes. Correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I know about SLI is that the top card sees the most useage since it's VRAM is used, so maybe I could put my dying card on the bottom, even tho it's not the VRAM that is dying in it since I don't have to underclock it.
The card has been slowly dying for the past year and it keeps getting random black screen when the card hits 85%-100% utilization or when the load spikes, such as when a game finishes loading, the only way to fix it is to underclock the GPU core speed by 40mhz and roughly every month I have to underclock it by extra 5mhz as the black screen appear again which makes me think that the card is slowly dying. That is perfectly fine since the card has few years of heavy gaming and underclocking under it's belt.
Currently a cheap Asus GTX 670 2GB poped up near me, the seller said he had it since new but had very low useage and it still even has the clear plastic protection on it, I don't really care if it's virtually new or heavly used, as long it works since it's cheap anyways. Since I have no idea when my card will die because like I said, I have to underclock it by 5mhz roughly every month and I can't afford to be left without this PC since I do a lot of college work on it and waiting a week for a new card to come in will make me fall behind.
So what I was thinking is to get that Asus card since its close and cheap and switch it out when my card dies but I have no idea when this will be so instead of the card lying around and since I never had a SLI PC and never expierenced SLI, I was thinking of SLI'ing the cards, my motherboard supports SLI and it came with an SLI bridge so I don't have to get one. But the question is, will I run into issues with my card since it has to be underclocked because its dying and will I need to underclock it more? I have no idea if SLI puts extra stress on the card since it appears my card black screens when its under heavy load or gets a load spikes. Correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I know about SLI is that the top card sees the most useage since it's VRAM is used, so maybe I could put my dying card on the bottom, even tho it's not the VRAM that is dying in it since I don't have to underclock it.
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