Originally Posted by Phil Rhodes You need antialiasing at 2560x1600?
Its still only 2560*1600 :)
1680*1050 with 2x AA enabled is theoretically drawing its edges bases on an image 3360*2100 for instance, 6720*4200 with 4x AA enabled etc. So while AA may not be as good as actually having that resolution, I'm pretty sure you'd still notice the difference :)
Also from my understanding at least, when doing AA the card doesn't render a lot of the scene, so it might be the case that you could run a lower res with AA and get notable improvement in jaggies, while not performing worse (outside of the lower res image would of course look worse if you stretched it across a much larger screen..)
Now as to SLI itself, I still have fond memories of the Voodoo days, when spending another £20 for a second, second-hand voodoo2 got you gaming performance as good as people that went out to shops and got there computers upgraded with a voodoo3 for a £100+, but so far the modern nvidia SLI hasn't presented many oportunities since the cards have so far been far outstripped (and not had time to drop in value enough either) because of the rapid development cycle. (And the change to DX10 hasn't helped too much either)
Originally Posted by Nictron 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.
Good to see other south african members on bit-tech ;)
Sheeesh, what next? I guess we'll see the release of the 2000W PSU to help run this beast of a setup, I thought the current upgrade merry-go-round was bad enough but now.....
Originally Posted by johnnyboy700 Sheeesh, what next? I guess we'll see the release of the 2000W PSU to help run this beast of a setup, I thought the current upgrade merry-go-round was bad enough but now.....
Originally Posted by johnnyboy700 Sheeesh, what next? I guess we'll see the release of the 2000W PSU to help run this beast of a setup, I thought the current upgrade merry-go-round was bad enough but now.....
Why not just run it off the power line meant for your cooker?? Here it's 380 Volts (3x220 actually) for anything over 2000Watts. That would be easier tbh.
Originally Posted by BlueTrin Nobody mentioned the heat and noise that such a setup will cause :?
It's louder than a single card solution, but it's actually not too bad... I don't think it's as loud as a loaded 2900 XT (or two) in a system, for example.
In terms of heat, there's a lot given off and initially we tested with a fan above the cards. However, in the interests of pushing this to its limits, I removed the fan and sat down playing Crysis for about an hour and a half... and there was no sign of instability. :)
Of course, the test was done on an open bench in a room temp of around 25 degrees Celsius and I would therefore recommend using one of the cases that Nvidia recommends for 3-way SLI because they've gone through a certification process to ensure there's enough airflow to keep the system cool.
Originally Posted by flaunt 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.
I've heard rumblings along these lines... Intel have suggested it (given their past 'graphics solutions' they might need some help) and AMD are obviously in a nice position having acquired a mature graphics processor company...
Anyway, nice test but how ridiculous is it hahaha. Does anyone really need to play at 2560x1600? I don't think my eyes are even that good anymore.
Originally Posted by mrplow Anyway, nice test but how ridiculous is it hahaha. Does anyone really need to play at 2560x1600? I don't think my eyes are even that good anymore.
Just a question, you're using a thermaltake 1500w psu, would the 1200 (more preferably the 1000w) version of that psu be able to cope with triple sli? they seem to both have 6 pci-express ports. Is there any reason to have the 8 pci-express ports on the 1500w?
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Replyremember when SLi the 7950Gx2 and yet it still gets beaten by 8800GTX?
Its still only 2560*1600 :)
1680*1050 with 2x AA enabled is theoretically drawing its edges bases on an image 3360*2100 for instance, 6720*4200 with 4x AA enabled etc. So while AA may not be as good as actually having that resolution, I'm pretty sure you'd still notice the difference :)
Also from my understanding at least, when doing AA the card doesn't render a lot of the scene, so it might be the case that you could run a lower res with AA and get notable improvement in jaggies, while not performing worse (outside of the lower res image would of course look worse if you stretched it across a much larger screen..)
Now as to SLI itself, I still have fond memories of the Voodoo days, when spending another £20 for a second, second-hand voodoo2 got you gaming performance as good as people that went out to shops and got there computers upgraded with a voodoo3 for a £100+, but so far the modern nvidia SLI hasn't presented many oportunities since the cards have so far been far outstripped (and not had time to drop in value enough either) because of the rapid development cycle. (And the change to DX10 hasn't helped too much either)
I can has one Soon???
Good to see other south african members on bit-tech ;)
Why not just run it off the power line meant for your cooker?? Here it's 380 Volts (3x220 actually) for anything over 2000Watts. That would be easier tbh.
It's louder than a single card solution, but it's actually not too bad... I don't think it's as loud as a loaded 2900 XT (or two) in a system, for example.
In terms of heat, there's a lot given off and initially we tested with a fan above the cards. However, in the interests of pushing this to its limits, I removed the fan and sat down playing Crysis for about an hour and a half... and there was no sign of instability. :)
Of course, the test was done on an open bench in a room temp of around 25 degrees Celsius and I would therefore recommend using one of the cases that Nvidia recommends for 3-way SLI because they've gone through a certification process to ensure there's enough airflow to keep the system cool.
I've heard rumblings along these lines... Intel have suggested it (given their past 'graphics solutions' they might need some help) and AMD are obviously in a nice position having acquired a mature graphics processor company...
Anyway, nice test but how ridiculous is it hahaha. Does anyone really need to play at 2560x1600? I don't think my eyes are even that good anymore.
You need new glasses timmeh
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