3way SLi worth it?

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I'm sure this has been asked 1000 times.

I have a XFX 780i board, 2 EVGA 260 Core216 cards SLi. I mainly play WoW. The game plays smooth but I do get some chop during heavy spell casting periods.

I can get a 3rd card for $170 and was wondering if I should bother or if I should grab it.

I also have a 1000 watt Corsair PSU so there is no issue there.

any info appreciated.

Thanks
 
depends on what resolution you run.. 1920x1200 or lower its a complete waste to run tri-sli.. i would look into trying to overclock the shaders and video memory on those cards instead of going with triple sli..
 
You get stuttering in WoW with that setup? I have the same setup as yours, only I have the 192 cores, and I don't get stuttering in anything......

I'm sort of ignorant when it comes to WoW, but doesn't it not really even take advantage of sli as it is, or did they fix that? I'd say OC those things and call it a day.
 
What CPU are you using? Those cards should have no issues with WoW.

I know back in the day with sli rigs in WoW you had to disable smooth mouse and v sync or your fps would tank.
 
I dont get shuttering at all in WoW. I just get a lag when alot of spells are casting at once. I run 1920X1200 on a 24 inch monitor. I have all settings maxed. I'll have to look into if WoW does support SLi as well.

I have a Q6600@3600 and 4 GB 1066 Corsair.
 
don't worry about SLI or Tri-SLI unless you have an i7. The other CPUs just can't feed the cards and you max out.
 
GTIZI said:
Your stutter is possibly from your hard Drive or possibly your net?
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This. Your CPU seems fast enough for high res and graphics packed WoW, so it's probably your HD. Go for a SSD and you should see massive improvments, especially since WoW has a bunch of I/Os.

Keep in mind, there are places in WoW where you're just going to have dips in FPS, no matter what system you have.
 
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I'm running 5 74GB WD raptor in RAID 0. I know 5 is over kill but I got them all for pretty much nothing and had no other use for them so I threw them all in.
 
Don't get Tri-SLI period, imo. It scales like absolute garbage. Cheers to all who are rocking three cards ... I'd do it if money was no option ... but for the most part, the performance increase from SLI to Tri-SLI is far too modest to consider unless you're getting a ridiculously good price on the third GPU.

Not sure why you're stuttering, though. SLI 260-216s should destroy WoW (and pretty much everything else - they outperform a single GTX 295 most of the time).
 
As far as scaling is concerned. Anything more than a two way video card setup hardly seems worth it, be it SLi or CrossFire.
 
Bigbacon said:
don't worry about SLI or Tri-SLI unless you have an i7. The other CPUs just can't feed the cards and you max out.
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lol..for wow yeah...

but for other title out there, NO WAY!!!

and what does it have to do with i7? I really don't see any performance increase while using it for 2 weeks :S

also, why does CPU have to "FEED" GPU ? it doesn't even make sense there...

the usage of each part is depending on each software or game, how they scale in each part..

the word "FEED" doesn't make sense at all....
 
You just need a really fast CPU / Hard Drive / Memory sub system for WoW.

Core i7 @ 3600Mhz
DDR3 2000
Intel X-25E's in Raid 0

Would work wonders even with a 8800GTS or whatever I'm sure.

I have a Q6600 @ 3200 4GB and a 150Gb Raptor with a 280GTX and still get bogged down badly in some areas even with lower resolutions.
 
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