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Tri Sli with 8800GTX?

geordie56

geordie56

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Hi i am currently running the system below and wonderedif adding a third card would make much of a difference obviouslt with using 3 26" sceens would it be beneficial? cheers guys.

x3 Samsung T260 HDs
Abit IN932X-MAX Mboard, Intel 6850 Quad Core Extreme
OCZ PC2-6400C5 Dual Channel Vista Gold Series Ram 8Gb
2 300gb sata Hard Drives, 2 NEC DVD re-writer drives
1 Samsung 1TB spinpoint hard drive
Coolermaster 1000W PSU, x2 BFG 8800GTX Overclocked and Watercooled
Thermochill 3 Fan Rad + Laing Pump with XSPC clear top + XSPC Drive Bay and 1/2" Tygon Hose running 2 GPUs
Thermochill 1 Fan Rad + Aquaero Pump + Aquatube Res + 10mm Hose running CPU
All controlled via Aquaero monitoring system running Vista 64bit
 
in the real world the difference in performance would not be anywere near the extra money you spend
 
3 x 8800GTX in Tri SLI would be very near to two GTX280's in SLI.

The 8800GTX is a very fast card indeed, especially that overclocked BFG unit.
 
I can get a brand new card for 140 and a waterblock for 75 so would this be worth it at these prices? would i see much performance increase and I plan on overclocking my cpu to avoid the bottlenecking. I have fitted a Dtek fusion 2 with quad insert and a TFC 360 Xchanger Rad just for the CPu. One last thing Tri SLi is supported on my motherboard isnt it? Thanks for the responses guys.
 
Hi Geordie,
Obviously your motherboard will need to have 3 PCI-E x16 slots to support 3-way SLi, you can easily tell by just looking inside your case. Chris.
 
Aekeron said:
I thought only the 9xxx series onwards did Tri SLI?
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he's wrong! i'm runnign 3 8800gtx in sli

my quad is @ 3.8Ghz not really bottle necked.
Performance gain in benchmarks is about 3x 1card.
in games providing i use alternate frame rendering (and not NV default) it can be up to 3x but usually about 2.5x performance.

I run mine in non SLi and run f@h on all 3 most of the time, then when gaming just change the profile and run at max perfromance.

Only thing i would say is they are power hungry cards. you need a solid PSU with good current capacities on the 12V rails.
-at full load my rig can pull 700W from the wall!
 
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geordie56 said:
I can get a brand new card for 140 and a waterblock for 75 so would this be worth it at these prices?
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No, it wouldn't. A used BFG 8800GTX will cost you about £85 and EK full cover 8800GTX waterblocks are going for £20 delivered. At that sort of money it's worth a punt.

geordie56 said:
Would i see much performance increase and I plan on overclocking my cpu to avoid the bottlenecking. I have fitted a Dtek fusion 2 with quad insert and a TFC 360 Xchanger Rad just for the CPu. One last thing Tri SLi is supported on my motherboard isnt it? Thanks for the responses guys.
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The motherboard isn't the best - it's a poor clocker with quads and I very much doubt it will run tri-SLi.
 
Thanks for that what motherboard are you using? Its just i looked on bfgs site and it doesnt say tri sli just dual sli? any help before i purchase this will be good will it work on my current mboard? Cheers vertica. I also triple screen game with 3 samsung t260hds and a matrox adapter so want this extra performance.
 
WJA cheers are you selling yours or stil using it mate? and what motherboard would you reccomend? Is it just a poor overclocker due to the heat issues what do you think i should be achieving with my setup and the extreme cpu?
 
I'm on X58 boards. ASUS P6T and Gigabyte EX-X58-UD5. Both fully water-cooled, and I'm 100% GTX280 now.
 
vertica said:
he's wrong! i'm runnign 3 8800gtx in sli

my quad is @ 3.8Ghz not really bottle necked.
Performance gain in benchmarks is about 3x 1card.
in games providing i use alternate frame rendering (and not NV default) it can be up to 3x but usually about 2.5x performance.

I run mine in non SLi and run f@h on all 3 most of the time, then when gaming just change the profile and run at max perfromance.

Only thing i would say is they are power hungry cards. you need a solid PSU with good current capacities on the 12V rails.
-at full load my rig can pull 700W from the wall!
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Lol, rather expressive way to answer my question. I was only asking :)
 
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