Originally Posted by Gunsmith how did you power the 3rd card? i wasnt aware of any psu's that had more then 4x PCI-X power lines?
There are some, surprisingly... we've used Thermaltake's Toughpower 1500W unit... comes with 4x 6-pin and 4x 8-pin PCI-E connectors (with two 8-pin to 6-pin adapters). :)
so to play Crysis at very high, i'll need 3x 8800Ultra in Tri Sli or a single graphics card with 3x the processing power of current graphics card to have a playable framerate :O
damn, there goes my dream of maxing Crysis when i upgrade to Geforce series 9
Originally Posted by MrWillyWonka OUCH to the electricity bill. Any chance it *might* remotely be available to some other cards?
Having 3 cards means you have no room for anything else, isn't it time for taller motherboards with space to actually put your sound and TV cards?
for how tight everything is squeezed in, it would be nice to see a new format with maybe an extra inch or two.
my 1950 pro is a tight fit, I dont think that 3 8800's would even make it in.
This is pretty awesome but something seems a little odd about going down the path of multiple GPUs while Intel is already going the route of multiple core CPUs. Seems to me the burden of heavy graphics processing could be shifted back over to the CPU. That would be a much more economically viable solution than telling people to throw an extra $700 graphics card into their system whenever a new card-busting game emerges. If the burden were on the CPU, then each new CPU generation containing a larger number of cores would theoretically result in automatic performance increases in games. Sure there would be inefficiencies using a "regular" CPU core to process graphics, but think about the scaling. If you had an 8 core CPU perhaps 4 cores could be devoted to processing graphics in parallel and some of the inefficiencies might be mitigated by the shared cache between the cores. I realize there are many hardware-level efficiencies built in to graphics cards, but I'm a little puzzled that Intel hasn't atleast explored the possibilities since they would stand to gain quite a bit.
And finally, we see our graphics subsystem take up more physical space that the motherboard in terms of PCB space and heatsinks! We have a winner! :D This looks so awesome and I only wish I had the money to procure it :P
Originally Posted by zr_ox I was sure the early reports were indicating that this would only be possible on the 780i.
This is interesting since a simple driver will enable it, that begs the question then "why bother with the 780i" since it really brings little extra to the table, and at what cost?
a little extra? i would say that support for 45nm cpus is a bloody big thing.
looks like im not the only person thinking about sound cards lol
is there any reason why we dont have multi core gpus
You could almost think of current GPUs as being multi-cored if you count each shader unit as a core, but the main reason we don't have true multi-core GPUs right now would most certainly have to be yields. As massive as these chips are, getting two on the same piece of silicon functioning perfectly would certainly be a chore.
When I built my old rig, about a year and a half ago, I was 'admittedly going to get another card down the road'. But the industry changed, my setup was completely out dated and getting another card was virtually impossible (and would be outdone with a card that would cost the same as an addition card for a SLI setup I would've used)
I think SLI is a bit overrated really. People constantly want to have the best. Its near madness. I built my 'new rig' just this past sept. Stepped up to a 8800gtx (thanks evga) and now the 9xxx series cards will be launching in Feb. New gfx, new cpu, new ram.... new computer altogether! ddr2? NA! Now its ddr3! All faster and what not! I'll prolly never SLI, it just seems to be a gimmick now to sell additional gpu's that will be useless in less then a year.
I love PC gaming, but dang... there is some economical sense to consoles....
For every 10 games I buy on PC I can buy a 8800GT, console games are way too expensive! That is here in South Africa though don't know how the prises are in other countries.
Originally Posted by StormPwn Tim S, is there any chance you could upload the timedemo you used to test Crysis?
I'd very much like to run my own tests to compare :)
thank you
As much as I would love to share my timedemo with you, I don't distribute my timedemos because they can get into the wrong hands - i.e. ATI/Nvidia's driver optimisation team. The result would be potentially inflated performance in the exact portion (and camera position) of the game that I am testing, which doesn't tell you guys anything. I will tell you where it was recorded though... the Harbor level.
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ReplyCrossfireX, enabled on the 790 chipset (whenever that gets here).
There are some, surprisingly... we've used Thermaltake's Toughpower 1500W unit... comes with 4x 6-pin and 4x 8-pin PCI-E connectors (with two 8-pin to 6-pin adapters). :)
damn, there goes my dream of maxing Crysis when i upgrade to Geforce series 9
The sheer awesomeness of this is astounding.
3 x 8800ULTRA and a bad ass intel quad core and it will be amazing.
Having 3 cards means you have no room for anything else, isn't it time for taller motherboards with space to actually put your sound and TV cards?
for how tight everything is squeezed in, it would be nice to see a new format with maybe an extra inch or two.
my 1950 pro is a tight fit, I dont think that 3 8800's would even make it in.
Ohh..the madness
I ROFLed at work when I saw the title....
Don't ever quote it without proper context!
I'd very much like to run my own tests to compare :)
thank you
a little extra? i would say that support for 45nm cpus is a bloody big thing.
looks like im not the only person thinking about sound cards lol
is there any reason why we dont have multi core gpus
Another good reason would be thermals.
I think SLI is a bit overrated really. People constantly want to have the best. Its near madness. I built my 'new rig' just this past sept. Stepped up to a 8800gtx (thanks evga) and now the 9xxx series cards will be launching in Feb. New gfx, new cpu, new ram.... new computer altogether! ddr2? NA! Now its ddr3! All faster and what not! I'll prolly never SLI, it just seems to be a gimmick now to sell additional gpu's that will be useless in less then a year.
I love PC gaming, but dang... there is some economical sense to consoles....
As much as I would love to share my timedemo with you, I don't distribute my timedemos because they can get into the wrong hands - i.e. ATI/Nvidia's driver optimisation team. The result would be potentially inflated performance in the exact portion (and camera position) of the game that I am testing, which doesn't tell you guys anything. I will tell you where it was recorded though... the Harbor level.
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