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GTX 460 SLI

qumbaya

qumbaya

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I am gona receive a pair of gtx 460 and just wanted to know if i should expect to have a lot of micro stuttering and how would i reduce it if yes
 
I had a pair of GTX 460s myself, and ended up returning the second card under DSR because of it. I noticed it in some games more than others though.

In terms of actual framerates, I could run Crysis on Enthusiast at 1920 x 1080 with no real noticeable issues. I tried Metro 2033 on high at the same resolution and it ran smoothly as well bar the micro stuttering I noticed.

It really depends how susceptible you are to things like this. I am, but my brother said he couldn't see what I was talking about. As for getting rid of the problem, you can't. The micro stutter is due (correct me if I'm wrong, somebody) to the cards communicating with each other to show the same image, and occurs while one is telling the other what to display.

My advice would be try them for yourself, and if you don't notice anything, great. If you do, just return them under DSR.

EDIT: I wouldn't say it was bad. Just distracting enough for me to warrant returning the card. It really is a micro stutter though.
 
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I dont know what all the fuss is about microstuttering.

Ive had SLI rigs right from when it first come out with SLI 6600GT on a S939 setup progressing through at least a dozen SLI configs. Granted the last SLI setup i had was 8800GTX SLI but i never encountered it once.
 
i sold my 460 SLI setup for a 6970, i noticed microstutter in iracing that bugged me, once you go looking for it and find it you cant ignore it. I didnt notice it in the limited FPS games i played but as iracing is my main game i had to do something about it after hours of changing drivers/options. on an i7 930
 
I've got an overclocked i5 760 running at 3.6GHz.

I bought a 768mb 460 as a stop-gap until the 500 series came out or 400 series got cooler and quieter, and decided to try another in SLI. If Leeroy isn't noticing anything, either I'm very sensitive to the problem or it was a VRAM issue.

Like jetsetwilly said though, if you go looking for it and find it, it'll bug you until the end of time, so don't go looking for it and you might love SLI :D

I didn't find vsync made any difference. All that does is sync the frames on the monitor. It can't reduce the time it takes for the graphics cards to communicate with each other. That's my understanding of it, anyway.

Here's hoping it's fine for you :)
 
I just upgraded from a pair of EVGA 1GB GTX460's and never noticed any of this microsuttering myself. They worked well together and never had any driver issues. Only reason for changing it when one of them went faulty.
 
I'm running two 460's and haven't had any microstutter issues.

Currently enjoying Metro 2033 at 1080p and everything except 'advanced physics' and 'advanced depth of field' on full :) The performance is unbelievable for the money.
 
Running sli 470's here, havent experienced micro stutter, same go's for the sli gtx 275's i ran previous to my current cards.
 
ex 4870x2 owner here, and I got rid of it due to micro-stutter.

Performance was great (at the time), but the stutter drove me mad.

Sinlge card setups for me from here on out.
 
Another former 4870X2 user here, I noticed little in the way of micro-stutter and yes, I thought the peformance was very good on the whole. As above, my next purchase is likely to be a single gpu card.
 
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