Tri-fire!

[lavaheadache]

I love microcenter!! Price matched a 295 for me.

This has got to be hands down the best dual gpu card I've run. Cool, Quiet, and most of all smooooooth. Paired up with my Lightning, these two run great. The temps are pretty much equal between the 2, about 65c each gpu.

I'll be back with more later!

 

[blastingcap]

I'm trying to figure out what that 8-heatpipe monster CPU cooler is...

 

[lavaheadache]

Silver arrow SB-E. Awesome cooler really

 

[Attic]

Holy schnickies!!!

So I sat for about a minute trying to find the third card...

Nice, unique tri-fire. Stick the 295 ontop. And the lightning too. Best way to stick this setup for folks limited to 8x bandwith on 2 PCI-ex slots, like z87.

/drools

Those temps are very much a surprise.

 

[blastingcap]

Silver arrow SB-E. Awesome cooler really

Dang you really went all out. I can hear the peanut gallery demanding benches already

 

[DarkKnightDude]

What's game performance wise like with that setup? Hope you got a decent resolution.

 

[lavaheadache]

Dang you really went all out. I can hear the peanut gallery demanding benches already

I still owe Face2Face Lightning benchies, lol. All I have to say really is that this rig is powerful. I can't get over how smooth Crossfire is. I seriously can't tell the difference, comparatively speaking, between single gpu and tri-fire.

I need a little power than a single card could offer. Gonna have my 3rd U3011 here by the weekend and I switch between 30's and 4k. The Eyefinity screens are going to be for racing and whatnot and the 4k is really good for everything else.

Why compromise right ? =P

 

[Silverforce11]

You've replaced the R295X2 stock 120mm fan with the Enermax right? That would explain the low temps. Rads really need a high static pressure fan to really shine.

 

[blastingcap]

Gonna have my 3rd U3011 here by the weekend and I switch between 30's and 4k. The Eyefinity screens are going to be for racing and whatnot and the 4k is really good for everything else.

Why compromise right ? =P

Whoa there, how are you doing that? KingFatty and I were talking about this many moons ago and I don't think we came up w/ a solution.

Is there some easy way to have four monitors where one big one can lift away or something when you want to use tri-monitors of lower size? Do you have a recommendation for a certain monitor stand?

 

[rtsurfer]

Holy.
A Lightning & a 295X2.
You really are a Video Card nut.:awe:

BTW, how are you powering those monsters.?
Dual PSU.??
Also is that a 750D.?

 

[OCGuy]

Awesome rig! Although I would be getting a IB-E to eek out all potential performance, that is, of course, unless you are eyeing the 6/8 core HW-E W/ DDR4 RAM in a few weeks

 

[lavaheadache]

Holy.
A Lightning & a 295X2.
You really are a Video Card nut.:awe:

BTW, how are you powering those monsters.?
Dual PSU.??
Also is that a 750D.?

Dual psu

Corsair ax 850 for the system and 295x2 and a Visiontek 400 watt drive bay psu for the Lightning.

Carbide Air 540

and no I didn't replace the oem fan on the rad yet. Though I could. Oem seems to be doing just fine

 

[lavaheadache]

Awesome rig! Although I would be getting a IB-E to eek out all potential performance, that is, of course, unless you are eyeing the 6/8 core HW-E W/ DDR4 RAM in a few weeks

no need to upgrade the barebones. My minimuns are higher than my refresh 99% of the time. I don't care about producing more frame than I can see.

 

[Jodell88]

 

[3DVagabond]

Real nice!!! I assume you are using the 4x mDP on the 295 to driver the monitors? I'm curious about bandwidth limits. I don't think you can drive 3x 2560*1600 and 4k at the same time @ 60Hz. I really don't know though. I'm curious to find out. I was thinking that you might have to set up 2 separate monitor profiles, one with the 7680*1600 and the other with the 4K.

 

[KaRLiToS]

That is a beast. :wub:

 

[n0x1ous]

Awesome lava!

 

[guskline]

lavaheadache: Thank you for sharing that picture with us. Your min fps is probably faster than my max fps on most games!

 

[MeldarthX]

very; very nice lava now get to benching LOL

 

[KingFatty]

Whoa there, how are you doing that? KingFatty and I were talking about this many moons ago and I don't think we came up w/ a solution.

Is there some easy way to have four monitors where one big one can lift away or something when you want to use tri-monitors of lower size? Do you have a recommendation for a certain monitor stand?

I'll be revisiting this soon. All my computer upgrading has been on hold while trying to take care of mortgage stuff with new home construction etc. But in less than a month I should be picking up some new displays, which may be 30" and/or 4K so I'm very curious what setup you go with Lava, for eyefinity and 4K.

 

[RaulF]

Bench bench bench bench bench

 

[IEC]

Now that is an impressive triple GPU setup

 

[blastingcap]

I'll be revisiting this soon. All my computer upgrading has been on hold while trying to take care of mortgage stuff with new home construction etc. But in less than a month I should be picking up some new displays, which may be 30" and/or 4K so I'm very curious what setup you go with Lava, for eyefinity and 4K.

Yeah inquiring minds want to know, Lava, cmon spill the beans, how are you doin' it?

 

[UaVaj]

I still owe Face2Face Lightning benchies, lol. All I have to say really is that this rig is powerful. I can't get over how smooth Crossfire is. I seriously can't tell the difference, comparatively speaking, between single gpu and tri-fire.

I need a little power than a single card could offer. Gonna have my 3rd U3011 here by the weekend and I switch between 30's and 4k. The Eyefinity screens are going to be for racing and whatnot and the 4k is really good for everything else.

Why compromise right ? =P

share the same sentiment.
with us both switching from nivida sli. crossfireX is butter smooth.
typically get most of my multi-gpu stutter at frame dips.
frame dip with crossfireX feel exactly like single gpu. no hitch whatsoever.

depending if quad 290x can honestly power 1440p eyefinity. if so, planning on getting 3 U3011 too.

may I please ask for a BF4 bench at 1440p eyefinity too.
that last two guys I nicely asked went MIA.

as for the compromise. with you 100%
play with all the eye candy or not play at all. ()
go big or go home.

 

[sf101]

Nice i was asking a reviewer to test trifire with a 295 and a 290X a few weeks ago and they wouldnt even bother to see if it was possible . now i know. thx.