Getting my new PC!!!

[Complextic]

Hey guys I passed my math exam and made my first communion! My mother and I made a deal at the beginning of the school year that If I did well in school and everything I could have a new computer.

Specs:

GTX 980 (2)
16 Gig Ram
Intel® Core™ Processor i7-6700K 4.00GHZ 8MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1151 (Skylake)
120 MM Water Cooler
250 Gig SSD
2 TB Mechanical Secondary Drive
MSI Z170A Gaming Pro CARBON ATX w/ Programmable Lighting, USB 3.1, 3 PCIe x16, 4 PCIe x1, 1 SATA Express, 4 SATA3, 1 Ultra M.2 (Overclockable)
750 Watt Power Supply
Sound Card

 

[Stormtimbers]

I want it

 

[Complextic]

I want it

It's going to be nice for recording

 

[Joshua Daggerfire]

You should've waited and got a 1080.

EDIT
SLI is usally not the best as more than 90% of games wont support it, and even in games that do, a single 1080 is still beter

 

[Stormtimbers]

You should've waited and got a 1080.

Except the 1080 is like... 700 bucks...

 

[Joshua Daggerfire]

Except the 1080 is like... 700 bucks...

2 980's is about 900

 

[Complextic]

Maybe chill on other things and go for a titan

 

[Jack Scurvyfoote]

Congratulations mate, that's a pretty powerful computer you got there, I'm glad the deal went in your favor!

 

[Complextic]

Congratulations mate, that's a pretty powerful computer you got there, I'm glad the deal went in your favor!

Thanks! I'm going to be using it to record youtube, more power when I'm rendering objects, etc, it will be good for everything!

 

[Joshua Daggerfire]

Also, unless you're into music production, sound

Maybe chill on other things and go for a titan

1080 outperforms the titan

 

[Stormtimbers]

2 980's is about 900

There is no Nvidia 2980 lol

 

[Joshua Daggerfire]

There is no Nvidia 2980 lol

2 980's, as in two of one card

 

[John Foulroberts]

That's awesome. I bet that Skylake processor will do you well in rendering videos, especially with hyperthreading. If I were you, I'd replace the 980 SLI config with one new 1080. There's a lot of new architecture improvements with the 1080 that you should take advantage of.

 

[YiggityYuh]

Nice rig! I would recommend keeping a weather eye on the internet horizon for giveaways on graphics cards, the one your getting is pretty nice but my friend and I entered competitions and giveaways for a while and after two month we had won ourselves some nice titan ones, which we downgraded a little bit so we could have extra cash for food XD #collegelife

 

[Stormtimbers]

2 980's, as in two of one card

Oh wow ok I'm stupid

 

[Complextic]

Should I go with one 1080 or two 980s?

 

[John Foulroberts]

Should I go with one 1080 or two 980s?

I'd recommend the 1080, personally. You get a nice trifecta of awesomeness - die size reduction, new architecture, and the new GDDR5X memory.

 

[Complextic]

I'd recommend the 1080, personally. You get a nice trifecta of awesomeness - die size reduction, new architecture, and the new GDDR5X memory.

Alright thanks.

 

[Stormtimbers]

Wait hold on... This is probably a stupid question but can you plug in two of the same graphics card and double the power?

 

[John Foulroberts]

Wait hold on... This is probably a stupid question but can you plug in two of the same graphics card and double the power?

Effectively, yes. Of course there are some complications along the way, such as game compatibility, but you do get approximately double the performance. Not always, though.

Both Nvidia and AMD have technologies that allow you to "strap" together two or more graphics cards to increase performance. Nvidia has SLI (which uses a bridge to connect all the cards together) and AMD has CrossFire (no bridge). There are other requirements as well, like which GPUs can be used together (Nvidia usually requires all the cards to be the same, but AMD can mix and match as long as the architecture is the same, I think).

This was sort of off topic, but I still maintain that a new 1080 would be a better use of money than SLI 980s.