Tri-SLI

[thilanliyan]

http://techreport.com/articles.x/14161/1

Looks like 2-way SLI is just as good.

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: thilan29
http://techreport.com/articles.x/14161/1

Looks like 2-way SLI is just as good.

Don't believe the Tech Report- everyone here needs 3 way SLi! Get a second job if you have to to buy the stuff- it's that good.








Psyche.


It's like any other uber-high end solution: can't cost justify most of the time, has some uses.

Yeah sure dual SLi will run UT3 at 25X16 no AA fine.

But what about COH DX10 25X16 8X16X?
http://www.firingsquad.com/har..._performance/page6.asp


Or Lost Planet 19X12 8X16?

http://www.firingsquad.com/har..._performance/page8.asp

Or Lost Planet at 25X16 4X16X?
http://www.firingsquad.com/har..._performance/page8.asp

Or COJ at 19X12 4X16X?
http://pcper.com/article.php?aid=495&type=expert&pid=7

I consider 3 way a sort of "insurance" if you have a 30" monitor- most of the time you may not need it over dual, but nice to have. I'm guessing a lot of the 25X16 gamers may well have two GTXs or Ultras anyway, adding a third for them isn't a huge cost. One more card and possibly a bigger PSU.

That's what I see as the market for this more than people saying, "Hmmm, I need a new computer so I guess I'll build a 3 way rig".

 

[BFG10K]

More evidence that Tri-SLI is largely a waste of time.

And look at those noise levels under load. :Q

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
More evidence that Tri-SLI is largely a waste of time.

And look at those noise levels under load. :Q

Don't you have headphones for gaming?



if you can spend the kind of money required for TriSLi then you can probably figure a way to make it quiet
---and some of us are not bothered in the slightest with 2900xt CrossFire

i DO have a 400w Klipsch 4.1 system and no neighbors
:music::beer::music:

 

[Keysplayr]

Originally posted by: apoppin

Originally posted by: BFG10K
More evidence that Tri-SLI is largely a waste of time.

And look at those noise levels under load. :Q

Don't you have headphones for gaming?



if you can spend the kind of money required for TriSLi then you can probably figure a way to make it quiet
---and some of us are not bothered in the slightest with 2900xt CrossFire

i DO have a 400w Klipsch 4.1 system and no neighbors
:music::beer::music:

pssst.....buddy..... You do not have 2900XT crossfire.... :evil:

This secret message will self destruct in 15 seconds.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: keysplayr2003

Originally posted by: apoppin

Originally posted by: BFG10K
More evidence that Tri-SLI is largely a waste of time.

And look at those noise levels under load. :Q

Don't you have headphones for gaming?



if you can spend the kind of money required for TriSLi then you can probably figure a way to make it quiet
---and some of us are not bothered in the slightest with 2900xt CrossFire

i DO have a 400w Klipsch 4.1 system and no neighbors
:music::beer::music:

pssst.....buddy..... You do not have 2900XT crossfire.... :evil:

This secret message will self destruct in 15 seconds.

nope ... still readable

i did not say i have 2900xt Crossfire ... i have a 2900xt and an Overclocked HD2900Pro ... as in my sig
... "some of us" are not as bothered by 'noise' as others

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: BFG10K
More evidence that Tri-SLI is largely a waste of time.

And look at those noise levels under load. :Q

It's never a "waste of time" to have more powerful computer components BFG.

Given what I know about you, I'd think you'd be a good candidate for 3 way SLi- would give you a lot of options for your benchmarking and image enhancing AA settings.

You'd be spending the next month doing a writeup for ARSTechnica of the old games you could run 16Xs AA on, and probably have a lot of fun doing it.

 

[JPB]

Originally posted by: nRollo

Originally posted by: BFG10K
More evidence that Tri-SLI is largely a waste of time.

And look at those noise levels under load. :Q

It's never a "waste of time" to have more powerful computer components BFG.

Given what I know about you, I'd think you'd be a good candidate for 3 way SLi- would give you a lot of options for your benchmarking and image enhancing AA settings.

You'd be spending the next month doing a writeup for ARSTechnica of the old games you could run 16Xs AA on, and probably have a lot of fun doing it.

I would have to agree here, I have always considered *3-way* a lot more fun than single or dual action.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: JPB

Originally posted by: nRollo

Originally posted by: BFG10K
More evidence that Tri-SLI is largely a waste of time.

And look at those noise levels under load. :Q

It's never a "waste of time" to have more powerful computer components BFG.

Given what I know about you, I'd think you'd be a good candidate for 3 way SLi- would give you a lot of options for your benchmarking and image enhancing AA settings.

You'd be spending the next month doing a writeup for ARSTechnica of the old games you could run 16Xs AA on, and probably have a lot of fun doing it.

I would have to agree here, I have always considered *3-way* a lot more fun than single or dual action.

agreed ... Except when it goes bad ... it really goes bad
:Q

You do not want to be caught in the Crossfire IF it goes very bad

You have to be very careful what you Tri

 

[SickBeast]

What I found interesting was that they pretty much could not break 40fps in Crysis on high, no matter what they did.

The game isn't CPU limited.

There must be some kind of an SLI issue within the game. I remember that it couldn't even run on SLI rigs when it first came out.

What I would like to know is: What does Crysis need that current GPUs aren't giving it?

 

[taltamir]

I don't "need" to play games at all... I WANT to.
And I currently own a single 300$ card with no plans on buying anything more. In fact I Considered that splurging... but if I was sitting there in a mansion getting frustrated at stuttering on my 10,000$ bigass plasma I would have probably bought a 3way sli... The people who can justify a SINGLE 8800ultra can easily justify 3 of them for that extra few percents of FPS...

If its not any faster for one game, big deal, it will be for another...

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: taltamir
I don't "need" to play games at all... I WANT to.
And I currently own a single 300$ card with no plans on buying anything more. In fact I Considered that splurging... but if I was sitting there in a mansion getting frustrated at stuttering on my 10,000$ bigass plasma I would have probably bought a 3way sli... The people who can justify a SINGLE 8800ultra can easily justify 3 of them for that extra few percents of FPS...

If its not any faster for one game, big deal, it will be for another...

What you should realize is that the people who "can" - the people who do ... don't feel any need whatsoever to "justify" a purchase to anyone.

Perhaps you should not give in to that pressure to justify what you do for yourself. Although to be fair, this IS a forum and an explanation is usually all that is needed.

 

[JPB]

Originally posted by: apoppin

Originally posted by: JPB

Originally posted by: nRollo

Originally posted by: BFG10K
More evidence that Tri-SLI is largely a waste of time.

And look at those noise levels under load. :Q

It's never a "waste of time" to have more powerful computer components BFG.

Given what I know about you, I'd think you'd be a good candidate for 3 way SLi- would give you a lot of options for your benchmarking and image enhancing AA settings.

You'd be spending the next month doing a writeup for ARSTechnica of the old games you could run 16Xs AA on, and probably have a lot of fun doing it.

I would have to agree here, I have always considered *3-way* a lot more fun than single or dual action.

agreed ... Except when it goes bad ... it really goes bad
:Q

You do not want to be caught in the Crossfire IF it goes very bad

You have to be very careful what you Tri

:thumbsup:

 

[taltamir]

what? I do realize it... that's kinda the point... they don't need to justify the purchase by saying "ooh I get more FPS on crises" thats the whole point of me saying big deal... so 2x is just as good for game A... so what, it will be for another.

don't hang on to the semantics.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: taltamir
what? I do realize it... that's kinda the point... they don't need to justify the purchase by saying "ooh I get more FPS on crises" thats the whole point of me saying big deal... so 2x is just as good for game A... so what, it will be for another.

don't hang on to the semantics.

Don't you get hung up on semantics .. i wasn't disagreeing with you ... just e-x-p-a-n-d-i-n-g on it ... and you DID say you felt you were "splurging"

 

[taltamir]

oh. sorry I misunderstood, intention is a bit hard to get on the interwebs...

 

[BFG10K]

Don't you have headphones for gaming?

Yes, but even so...

You'd be spending the next month doing a writeup for ARSTechnica of the old games you could run 16Xs AA on, and probably have a lot of fun doing it.

I'll be doing that anyway - on nVidia?s next high-end single card.

 

[taltamir]

ach, over time headphones make my ears turn red... REALLY hot (I touch them with my fingers and they are very hot), and give me a headache plus a burning sensation in the ears... And I don't listen at a very loud volume at all...
So yea.. can't stand headphones... only use them when using the internet for its intended purpose... to watch "the pornohraphies" (despite living alone, it just feels wrong to do without, and I don't want to inconvenience the neighbors either)

 

[Blacklash]

Originally posted by: BFG10K

Don't you have headphones for gaming?

Yes, but even so...

You'd be spending the next month doing a writeup for ARSTechnica of the old games you could run 16Xs AA on, and probably have a lot of fun doing it.

I'll be doing that anyway - on nVidia?s next high-end single card.

QFE

I am waiting on that myself or that is single card single GPU.

 

[nRollo]

Originally posted by: BFG10K

Don't you have headphones for gaming?

Yes, but even so...

You'd be spending the next month doing a writeup for ARSTechnica of the old games you could run 16Xs AA on, and probably have a lot of fun doing it.

I'll be doing that anyway - on nVidia?s next high-end single card.

I'll say this about 3 way SLi noise- it's not annoying noise like FX5800 ultra noise was.

My box has 7 X 120mm fans, 2 X 80mm fans, the 3 GTXs, the Zalman 9700, the loud psu, and the chipset fan.

That's a whole lot o' air moving around, but it's more of a "whoosh" than a "hair dryer whine" like the FX5800 was, so you tune it out much easier.

Which is still not to say I think anyone should go three way who doesn't have a big monitor, just saying "noise" wouldn't break this deal for me.

I've got a Cosmos case here with a Tagan 1100W in it that would both be 3 way SLi recommended and certified, and that thing is pretty much silent in comparison, so noise is also largely dependent on these components.

 

[n7]

The only game that needs Tri-SLI still runs like ass with it

I was very disappointed that they didn't bother at least showing us the results with AA forced in UT3 though.

I know AA hits fps massively in UT3 (i've tried it at a number of different resolutions), but ffs, the whole point of Tri-SLI is to be able to do ridiculous things like that; force AA on an engine that's not supposed to be able to do it, & still have decent fps.

The fact they just mention oh we tried it but it killed fps...pfft.