I want to know if anyone here has added a second card to their existing one, for SLI, a couple of years after the initial purchase, and what your experiences are.
Whenever a new card shows up, I think there always is a "I can always SLI later if I need more performance" mindset but I wonder whether, when that time comes, people find it easier to simply upgrade to the latest generation card (for performance, warranty, power savings benefits) rather than start searching for a used example of the card they already have.
I have a GTX580. I would like more performance. When I bought it, I rationalized that I would get another 580 when I got to this point, but now that I'm here, I look around and see that I can either by a used 580 of unknown wear-and-tear or, for not much more, simply switch to something like the GTX770 or its Radeon peer. So, I'm wondering whether anyone actually found an older "second card" a few years after the initial purchase and, did the equation work out for you? Would you do it again?
Whenever a new card shows up, I think there always is a "I can always SLI later if I need more performance" mindset but I wonder whether, when that time comes, people find it easier to simply upgrade to the latest generation card (for performance, warranty, power savings benefits) rather than start searching for a used example of the card they already have.
I have a GTX580. I would like more performance. When I bought it, I rationalized that I would get another 580 when I got to this point, but now that I'm here, I look around and see that I can either by a used 580 of unknown wear-and-tear or, for not much more, simply switch to something like the GTX770 or its Radeon peer. So, I'm wondering whether anyone actually found an older "second card" a few years after the initial purchase and, did the equation work out for you? Would you do it again?