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I would much rather have one 980ti than 2 970s SLI.

But at this point, pascal can't be more than like 7 months away.

Assuming I can get keep ridiculous amounts of overtime, I think I'm going to build a pretty fucking sweet PC sometime next year.
 
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That monitor is nothing special, it doesn't matter how you hook it up for[email protected]/* <![CDATA[ */!function(t,e,r,n,c,a,p){try{t=document.currentScript||function(){for(t=document.getElementsByTagName('script'),e=t.length;e--;)if(t[e].getAttribute('data-cfhash'))return t[e]}();if(t&&(c=t.previousSibling)){p=t.parentNode;if(a=c.getAttribute('data-cfemail')){for(e='',r='0x'+a.substr(0,2)|0,n=2;a.length-n;n+=2)e+='%'+('0'+('0x'+a.substr(n,2)^r).toString(16)).slice(-2);p.replaceChild(document.createTextNode(decodeURIComponent(e)),c)}p.removeChild(t)}}catch(u){}}()/* ]]> */
 
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Mist_sl said:
That monitor is nothing special, it doesn't matter how you hook it up for[email protected]/* <![CDATA[ */!function(t,e,r,n,c,a,p){try{t=document.currentScript||function(){for(t=document.getElementsByTagName('script'),e=t.length;e--;)if(t[e].getAttribute('data-cfhash'))return t[e]}();if(t&&(c=t.previousSibling)){p=t.parentNode;if(a=c.getAttribute('data-cfemail')){for(e='',r='0x'+a.substr(0,2)|0,n=2;a.length-n;n+=2)e+='%'+('0'+('0x'+a.substr(n,2)^r).toString(16)).slice(-2);p.replaceChild(document.createTextNode(decodeURIComponent(e)),c)}p.removeChild(t)}}catch(u){}}()/* ]]> */
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So hooking one up HDMI and then using a displayport to HDMI for the other monitor will work? Just wanted to make sure I wasnt going to run into issue's never ran more than one monitor at a time.
 
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Nah, not in that configuration. It really only gets "tricky" when you start trying to drive multiple 120/144 Hz monitors at 1440p+ and/or across SLI configurations. But multi monitors at 1080p60 a single card can put out these days (for the most part I'm not looking at every damn card out there).
 
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Ronne_sl said:
How much cheaper is a pair of 970s though? An EVGA or something reference is what, like 320$ still? It comes out almost exactly the same price as a TI with a factory OC, and the TI benchmarks almost identical to the SLI setup (usually a few frames lower on max fps, few frames higher on minimum from what I've seen). Just seems like a lot less hassle to never have to deal with SLI issues in games to get basically identical performance and price.
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It's a trade off;

No stuttering/frame issues
Lower power consumption
No driver/sli issues

V

Cheaper setup
Slightly better performance most of the time
 
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I had a GTX 570 that died (fans stopped working, overheated after like an hour and shut off) so I got a 960.

After putting it in and booting up I tried to update NVidia drivers but it kept failing. I tried to restart and it would only boot directly into bios. When I take out the card and go back to onboard video it boots fine.

Any suggestions? Is it just a dead card? Is my mobo dieing? HD dieing?

If it matters, I'm on win 8.1 64bit, Z77 Sabertooth, 250gb M4 SSD, 1TB WD Blue HD
 
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Did you plug in the additional power connector(s) correctly? It should be 1x 8-pin I think.
 
slippery

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It was 2x 6 pin ones, and yes. I even tried a different pair of power cables (I have TX 850 or something like that with plenty of juice and modular cables so was able to try spares easily).
 
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Just take it as a sign from the Almighty GabeN that you should have bought a 970.
 
slippery

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Mist_sl said:
Just take it as a sign from the Almighty GabeN that you should have bought a 970.
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If it wasn't 50% more I probably would have tbh. I'm not sure I'd really get use out of the extra performance for the extra $100 though.

If only I could get the 960 to work
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Eomer

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Is Driver Cleaner still around? Maybe try that or something similar to purge any trace of your old drivers or settings?
 
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Slippery: Try a different PCI-E slot. If it works, that's your cue to start looking for a motherboard. If not, I'd RMA the card.

(Also, oops, someone else already said this, but it's still a good idea.)
 
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