And I'm not going to buy another GPU. The cheapest option for me right now would be to upgrade the motherboard. If someone could recommend one that'd be great. I don't think I can send my current one back because my stupid sister decided to clean my room and probably threw out the socket cover.
You can probably just return the 970 you just bought
Otherwise what's your power supply as well?
There's motherboard with DDR4 RAM, there didn't appear to be any SLI capable Z170 boards with DDR3 support
PCPartPicker part list: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/R82VvK
Price breakdown by merchant: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/R82VvK/by_merchant/
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-Z170XP-SLI ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($125.89 @ OutletPC)
Memory: Crucial 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory ($36.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $162.88
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-11 05:20 EST-0500
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Yup @Streetguru IĀ“m affraid i have some more bad news.
I just walked trough a large list of Z170 motherboards.
And unfortunatly i could not find any Z170 DDR3 board that supports SLi.
So he is also going to need new DDR4 ram unfortunatly.
I'm having a bad day :(
Just try to return the 2nd card or something, you're usually better off with a single strong GPU anyways, whoever put together that build wasn't thinking straight
I still want SLI 970s. I just want to fix my build, not change it.
Cheapest combination i could find.
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/NBJB3C
Ofc this board is a bit bare bones, it has all the basic feutures you would need.
But it will not be the best overclocker in the world.
Well fixing would be expensive, plus new GPUs are coming soon anyways, you get back that $300 + the money saved by not buying a new board + RAM you have a little over 400 which is going to go a long ways in a few months when all the new stuff comes out, you end up getting more performance for less money as time goes on with PC parts, better off waiting
Dual 970s will last me a long time. I'm not very patient when it comes to waiting for releases and I just want to get this thing going properly ASAP. I'll probably be able to return the RAM or just use it to make a server computer with my old parts. I've always wanted a private server anyway.
I'll have to get a new mobo and RAM, and I think that's all I'll change.
I don't really care too much about overclocking, I end up spending too much time fiddling and not enough time playing. Thanks for the help, you guys are great.
Maybe not as long as you think, Nvidia's Current cards have issues with a-sync which is the main feature of DX12/Vulkan, so a little less support there, plus 970s had that whole 3.5gb thing so the cards are effectively missing some VRAM, though DX12 should allow them each to use their VRAM.
not to mention if you were to wait and possibly switch to an AMD card you'd save money on an adaptive sync display as well
A-sync
info
http://wccftech.com/asynchronous-compute-investigated-in-fable-legends-dx12-benchmark/
Btw, I figured out why the network card disabled.
"*1:When PCIE x16_2 is occupied by x4 or faster devices, PCIE x1_1 and PCIE x1_2 will be disabled."
Yeah that could be indeed, doesnt realy suprise me with a B150 chipset.
I copied that straight from ASUS
Maybe you could sell your B150 board,
or indeed build a home server with it whatnot.
I have an asrock z77 extreme4 lying around too. I'll probably try to sell the B150. One more thing, do games utilise more than 8GB RAM these days? I figured I want to do it right this time. No more upgrades for years.
Not realy yet, but I would just grab 2x8GB kit DDR4, its not that much more over 2x4GB kit anyway.
16GB will be more then enough for gaming, the upcomming years.
I need to get a better job aye. Pizza delivery just won't cut it XD
Just making 100% sure before I buy anything, this is the RAM and mobo I'm looking at.
Is that right?