Hello all,

I hope I am writing in the right area. I feel like I've been out of the graphics card loop ever since the Bitcoin stuff started.

I have a pair of 970's that I have with sli, but as you all know this is sorta dead technology.

I find it that only few games benefit of the SLI. the only one I can think of that I play is GTA V.

I find that it's perhaps time to upgrade to a newer card, even if it's refurbished.

I was searching through the products here and was a bit thrown off by all these "shorter" cards. What's up with the length of them?

Also, what would you suggest is a decent upgrade from really just one 970 as I usually have to turn off the SLI for some of my games that perform poorer under it.

CPU is an AMD FX 8300 overclocked to 4.2ghz and a 144hz monitor which I'd like to take advantage of.

EVGATech_BrandonO
Hello,
 
The shorter length is simply that. A shorter card that some people like buying instead of the full length cards.
Keep in mind that a lot of the newer cards that are shorter in length tend to make up for it by having a thicker heatsink so instead of it being a 2 slot card it ends up being a 2.75 slot card.
As for recommendation: The lowest card that you buy that still will give you better performance than your 970 is the 1660.
If you are doing 144hz 1080P gaming, I would probably suggest either the 2060 or 2060 super so you can run most games at the higher settings and still be around the 144 FPS range.
 
 

Thank you so much for your reply.