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That's an insane amount of electricity going on there...
instead of tripple sli, why cant they just put more cores on a gpu??
seems like overkill.. e-penis... thats all. after looking at tripple-SLI, my 8800GTS 640 looks, for the lack of a better word; flaccid.
That concept doesn't work the same on GPUs as it would with CPUs. Someone explained it to me pretty well once, but now I can't think of it. I hate how people think thats just the solution to everything.
If it makes the difference between LotRO w/ DX10 eye candy as a slide-show, a moderately satisfying experience, or smooth as glass, I'll be doing this. . . with the next gen parts.
Why? Because I need to wag my e-peen around? No, because I'm spending so much time on LoTRO that I haven't been spending any real-world money for months. . . and with the wife's help, we've had our credit cards paid off for months now. No credit card payments = savings.
So. . . got money to burn, and an enthusiast's lust for tinkering and screwing around. . . = Triple SLI.
Gotta get this geekery in there before we start having kids!
Interesting question, why can't they make something like the Intel Quad Cores or Core 2 Duo, but on a GPU? Wouldn't that make it handle more streams of data quickly?
Interesting question, why can't they make something like the Intel Quad Cores or Core 2 Duo, but on a GPU? Wouldn't that make it handle more streams of data quickly?
TRI SLI is worthless, three cards to gain 2x performance WTF! Not to mention the money you have to spend and the amount of heat it produces. I think I'll pass
The GPU has been multicore for years.
Other then that, the only option is a GX2 with multiple GPUs on one board like they did with the 7 cards. But that has its drawbacks. Huge power needed, limited area for components, and a single PCI express slot simply doesn't have the bandwidth, and thats the biggest reason right there.
So SLI works decent now with Crysis? Does crossfire work any good?
Bah that's old news. Gold 'ole Voodoo 5.
That concept doesn't work the same on GPUs as it would with CPUs. Someone explained it to me pretty well once, but now I can't think of it. I hate how people think thats just the solution to everything.
any links about TRiSLi where there's two pcie 2.0 slots and one pcie 1.0 slot. I think the idea was that one card would be used for physics or something to that end
Have you heard of a setup where you have 2 same model cards linked and a 3rd different model card in the configuration?On a PCIe 2.0 compliant motherboard all the PCIe slots are 2.0 compliant. Additionally the cards being produced now are designed with a PCIe 1.0/1.0a interface. So throwing them into PCIe 2.0 slots won't change anything.
Have you heard of a setup where you have 2 same model cards linked and a 3rd different model card in the configuration?
I'm curious.....I have the 680i MB, but as I recall, the third GPU slot is 8X as the two "normal"SLI GPU slots are 16X correct???? Im not sure if that screws anything up or not.....
I did some figuring this afternoon......
1) new 8800 GTX BFG OC = 479 dollars after rebate
2) new PSU,Ultra 1000W X3= 249 dollars
3) new case, mine would be too small, CoolerMaster Stacker 830= 179 dollars
4)4 new 120mm fans= 40 dollars
5)the tri-SLI bridge= 10 dollars
Total to minimally upgrade = 957 dollars.......holy guacomole.
and my sound card would have to go.
Have you heard of a setup where you have 2 same model cards linked and a 3rd different model card in the configuration?
OP link talks about a patch for crysis optimized for TRiSLI. I wouldn't be supprised if crysis also gets a nice gpu physics patch considering it has a number of cmd line settings for sys_GPU_physicsYes, and currently there is little to no support for GPU physics. I researched this a bit when I tried this: (Two 8800GTS and an 8400GS)
http://www.blackcow.org/dump/threevid.jpg
OP link talks about a patch for crysis optimized for TRiSLI. I wouldn't be supprised if crysis also gets a nice gpu physics patch considering it has a number of cmd line settings for sys_GPU_physics
Now that would be interesting, so does regular sli (two video cards) work with crysis now, do you see a big performance boost compared to 1 card? or is there still not much benefit. Possibly they skipped two and fixed it for three? lol
Yes the middle PCIe x16 slot actually is only an x8 slot electrically speaking. I'm currently running a x4 PCIe RAID controller in mine. The nice thing is that since my cards are water cooled they are single slot solutions and I can use all my PCI and PCIe slots.
If I pull that I can run three 8800GTX's however I would have to get another waterblock for the third 8800GTX and that's another $100 because I would have to get one that matched the ones I already have. (I'm a perfectionist.)
So I'd be looking at a $500 upgrade to tide me over for just over a month. I think I'll pass and I'll be waiting to see what D9E looks like in retail form.
OP link talks about a patch for crysis optimized for TRiSLI. I wouldn't be supprised if crysis also gets a nice gpu physics patch considering it has a number of cmd line settings for sys_GPU_physics