Amazing Hardware, Huge disappointment - Please help

Robert said:
Are you being sarcastic? Why would he need more.
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if your going to that much gfx horse power without dual 30" monitors, may was go in excess on everything else :p

Plus with vista wanting to create a virtual copy of gfx memory in the ram he could well end up loosing nearly 1.5 gb of an app's 2 gb limit(unless its large address aware, which most games etc aren't aside from forged alliance, stalker and a few others, without modifying headers) before it even loads up properly, then with the application doing a similar thing it's self without telling vista he could hit his limit way before the app needs it.
 
If you haven't specifically installed motherboard drivers, hunt them down and do that first. Vista will quite happily install it's own rubbish ones, and not tell you :p
 
keep your options open and try it on win xp too. Try the crysis demo benchmark and the 3dmarks and tell us what you get, so you know whether its specific or not
 
Sell 2 x 9800 as you can still get around £300 for them but in July Nvidia will probably have a newer faster tech out which will make them redundant and worth a fraction of their current value.

You do realise that Tri-SLI (or even SLI for that matter) will never give you 300% the performance as you lose a lot of FPS due to the way the computer has to operate to handle the 3 gfx cards so at best you may get approx 1.5 times what a single 9800 will give you yet you have paid 3 x as much for this gain and not all games will give good results either as some do not like multiple gfx cards enabled.

Sell them and get a Q9450/Q9550 (when they come back into stock) as this will give you a better overall experience as it will boost OS loading and media burning/ripping and some games may even benefit from the large cache size.

SLI/Tri-SLI/Xfire is great and everything but really only for enthusiasts who want the very fastest gaming tech and do not mind spending a lot of money to do so even though it does not offer much more than 50-55% of what a decent single gfx card solution can offer. For most gamers it is total overkill when you compare the cost differential vs gaming experience difference and a single 9800GTX on a 24" monitor is good enough unless you want the absolute maximum image with lots of AA (lots of recent games under DX10 look good with a low level of AA). You could buy a PS3,X360 and still have a little change vs the cost of Tri-SLI.
 
uvmain said:
a 2.85Ghz overclock seems rather lowly for a newb overclocker, nevermind someone with tri-sli!

Which graphics drivers are you using?
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i think that the overclock should be fine - ramp it up once you get the system stable - your rig sounds sweet - so im guessing it should be a driver fault

try nvidia or guru 3d for the latest drivers

i reckon your hardware is new and the drivers are not optimised to run in the configuration

nice setup btw im very envious!!!:D:cool:
 
waits for some reponse like "i had to use a hammer to install the parts" or as my freind did (untech savvy as they come) got a new graphics card but still used the inbuilt graphic's monitor plug.
 
First of all i may be wrong, but with 3 graphics cards, windows will use 1.5gb out of 4gb due to 3x512mb.
So take out 2 of them.
Get all the correct drivers installed.
3 SLi is not very good anyway. Bearly any performance increase compared to 2.
 
jaykay said:
First of all i may be wrong, but with 3 graphics cards, windows will use 1.5gb out of 4gb due to 3x512mb.
So take out 2 of them.
Get all the correct drivers installed.
3 SLi is not very good anyway. Bearly any performance increase compared to 2.
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Thats with 32bit systems
 
the only reason i ask about psu is because to my knowledge this corsair psu is the only triple sli certified psu ( i might be wrong though ). Anyway triple sli is still in the same stage that normal sli was when it first came out. Id stick with one and when drivers start getting there act together then use the rest. either way huge bottleneck with 3 gpus.

again flash bios / update drivers properly , fail that try xp and benchmark for us with pcmark and 3dmark. then again with tri sli you would probably beat the guy with a 3870x2 if everything works properly
 
omargalea said:
bigger disappointment when i run - Frontline - Fuel for War, Turning point and even Hour of victory.
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Those games range from mediocre to outright terrible. I doubt they are multi-core and multi-gpu ready. Try some other games.

Not sure there are any benefits to 3xsli in terms of gaming, at least have not heard of it (except sales talk). Think this may be more useful for high end video apps and multiple screens.

With my 88GTX, I am not having any problems with games. Yet I cannot play Crysis in 1900x1200 all on very high, AA etc.. on max. But I can still play 1900x1200 everything on very high, shaders on medium, no AA with totally playable 25-30 fps during combat
 
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