Tri-SLI?
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 4:13 am
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Re: Tri-SLI?
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 6:41 am
Enjoy your latency issues when 1 of the slots is connected to the southbridge and two are connected to the northbridge.
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:27 am
why go tri sli
do what Im doing and get two 7950gx2's which effectively gives you 4 video cards - quad sli
http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone_quadsli.html
do what Im doing and get two 7950gx2's which effectively gives you 4 video cards - quad sli
http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone_quadsli.html
Re: Tri-SLI?
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 10:44 am
I hear DAAMIT is doing the same thing with their 3870s, beeron. 2 cores on a card, so you get quadfire with two cards.
Also, crossfire scales better than SLi, and the newest ati cards are dx10.1 compliant (not that that matters for us xp users).
Also, crossfire scales better than SLi, and the newest ati cards are dx10.1 compliant (not that that matters for us xp users).
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 3:38 pm
ya know i actually heard that the newest ATI cards are actually better than the nVidia cards anyway lol... 
[quote="l3eeron";p="55726"]
do what Im doing and get two 7950gx2's which effectively gives you 4 video cards - quad sli
[/quote]
in a sense yes it does, but you also have to know it would be like guad SLI running on 4 PCI-E 8x though considering if each card used half the bandwidth.
id still like to try and compare two 7950GX2s against my 8800 Ultras. And btw beeron... you also have to know that i have much higher RAM clock speeds than your card... but have two GPUs... same badwidth... i only got 112MHz more on the GPU clock... i really wanna find out
[quote="l3eeron";p="55726"]
do what Im doing and get two 7950gx2's which effectively gives you 4 video cards - quad sli
[/quote]
in a sense yes it does, but you also have to know it would be like guad SLI running on 4 PCI-E 8x though considering if each card used half the bandwidth.
id still like to try and compare two 7950GX2s against my 8800 Ultras. And btw beeron... you also have to know that i have much higher RAM clock speeds than your card... but have two GPUs... same badwidth... i only got 112MHz more on the GPU clock... i really wanna find out
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 4:37 pm
omg I cant understand a word yall are saying
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 5:23 pm
All I care about is being able to run 2560x1600 on full everything, reliably, for a long time. Dont care about whats "best". Nothing ever keeps the crown very long anyway
But that doesnt mean Im not concerned about specs
[quote="MrBlah";p="55836"]you also have to know it would be like guad SLI running on 4 PCI-E 8x though considering if each card used half the bandwidth.[/quote]
Ya, two cards per slot drops the bandwidth down in half to 8x instead of the normal 16x
But the card(s) gets good bench marks so Im stoked
But that doesnt mean Im not concerned about specs
[quote="MrBlah";p="55836"]you also have to know it would be like guad SLI running on 4 PCI-E 8x though considering if each card used half the bandwidth.[/quote]
Ya, two cards per slot drops the bandwidth down in half to 8x instead of the normal 16x
But the card(s) gets good bench marks so Im stoked
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 5:28 pm
about a year ago a friend of mine bought two of th GX2... he dropped it down to 1 because it just wasnt necessary lol hehehe so i get that point... ya know they are still like $500? even a year later.... thats nuts
lol hehehe so i get that point... ya know they are still like $500? even a year later.... thats nutsPosted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 6:36 pm
Hey beeron.
Unless you can find a used GX2 for a good price, I'd advise against SLi'ing em.
You could get two 8800GT's, and throw em in SLi for the same price of a new GX2. The 8800GT's in SLi would kill two GX2's in SLi. I even think one 8800GT would come close, if not better performance than SLi'ed GX2's.
(and then you could sell me your GX2 for super cheap )
Unless you can find a used GX2 for a good price, I'd advise against SLi'ing em.
You could get two 8800GT's, and throw em in SLi for the same price of a new GX2. The 8800GT's in SLi would kill two GX2's in SLi. I even think one 8800GT would come close, if not better performance than SLi'ed GX2's.
(and then you could sell me your GX2 for super cheap
)Re: Tri-SLI?
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 8:57 pm
Gen does make a point there, 2 GTs in SLI will pwn an 8800 Ultra even... looky HERE
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:17 pm
ya I read adding the second didnt really make a HUGE difference
I might not need an other video card, im gonna get the system first then see what happens, if it runs everything the way I want I can stop
otherwise Ill buy more stuff
I might not need an other video card, im gonna get the system first then see what happens, if it runs everything the way I want I can stop
otherwise Ill buy more stuff
Posted: Fri Dec 07, 2007 9:36 pm
well ur looking at over $2k anyway