I have both the AMD 8350 and the Intel 4790k,and I don't see why the 980 ti can't work in sli on a 8350 pc.
it "can" work.
Is it realy ideal? depends on the situation.
But basicly not realy.
I wouldn't. You'd see a bottleneck. Something like 390 CFX or a single R9 Fury is reaching the 8350s limits in terms of being a bottleneck. If you have that much spare change I would get an X99 system with a 5820k and a single 980 Ti.
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It honestly depends on the resolution your playing at. 1440p and up your mostly GPU bound anyways so ya it would totally work. 1080p you may see a bottle neck but I doubt it would matter considering the amount of power from 980ti sli. My question is though, if you are gaming at 1080p why the heck would you need two 980ti's ????
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I have plans for 1440p in the future and with a 980 ti without sli on my main system. I want a 980 ti sli build for a lan party pc. I want to reuse a pc that is just laying there doing nothing.
I will have to echo what was already stated, for solid 1440P, a 980 TI with a decent overclock will be more than enough. I would update the MOBO/Chipset/CPU before getting a second one.
And honestly, if you wanted to SLI now, in the present, I'd steer you towards SLI 980's like the EVGA SC ACX 2.0, or SLI classifieds, etc. Wendell was playing "buttery smooth" 4K with the SLI KFA2 HOF Ti's so it is most definitely overkill for 1440P, unless you were running like three wide screen 1440p monitors or something.
But hey man if you got the $$ more power to you. I spent a couple of days looking at Titan's recently but couldn't justify the cost lol, and changed my build around and went X99.........
At the end of the day it has to make you happy, but SLI 980 TI's with an 8350 is just "facepalm" in my book. And I mean absolutely no disrespect by that, I mean it's just senseless to me. Like why I didn't get a Titan X, the 980 Ti's get so close for A LOT less $$$. I'd rather take the money saved and get a nicer monitor, or jump from Z97 to Hasswell E, etc, you get the point.
The SC ACX 2.0 980's are on sale on Amazon for $499 right now and to me that's an SLI nobrainer. The money saved vs SLI ti's upgrades your MOBO/Chipset/CPU to Skylake or X99. I almost ordered one a couple of days ago but came into some extra funds and splurged on the 980 Ti.
Good luck whatever you decide.
Just my $0.02
That's what we should be working toward. That CPUs have little or nothing to do with running video games. GPU+RAM+Hard drive with minor CPU sprinkle. That should be it.
We are already there to some extent as the higher you go in resolution the less the CPU has to do with what's going on, unless it's a specific game that taxes multiple cores/threads etc.
I'll spend on a 980 ti but it be 1 for my main system. I get it .
I will be honest and say that my feelings are not positive about this. Others are entitled to their opinions and I understand that and respect it. I'll say that we both have differences of opinion when it comes to hardware and I am a person that likes to question what seems impossible.
I have personal choice of what type of monitor I want to put on my system and I don't care if it is 1080P or 4K.
I have 1 980 ti and my 4.7 i5 runs out if breath trying to keep up sometimes. Unless if the game is 8 core optimized (even if running at 4k) you'd be fucking yourself over
sorry to everyone for the outburst.