Tell us again.........What was that about 1GB cards
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SLI Incompatibility
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That SLI setup is an absolute beast. A single card is good enough for most games but two is mindblowing. Why buy an enthusiast single £500 card when you can have that for less than £400?
So you have the option for more than one £500 card
some are benchmarking junkies
I want
Stupid 580 only does 2 monitors
Tell us again.........What was that about 1GB cards
Lag spikes that typical fps numbers cannot tell: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=19424205&postcount=15
Typical vram usage of modern games: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18284509
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Because they're the same right?
Anyway, OP. SLI is generally good, though I've found odd issues around. Borderlands, Dirt 2 and Dirt 3 all have their own little issues with SLI (stuttering, lag in the LA arena, occasional artefacts), and when new games are released, it's not necessarily a smooth ride to get them working fully - for instance Crysis 2.
Anyway, OP. SLI is generally good, though I've found odd issues around. Borderlands, Dirt 2 and Dirt 3 all have their own little issues with SLI (stuttering, lag in the LA arena, occasional artefacts), and when new games are released, it's not necessarily a smooth ride to get them working fully - for instance Crysis 2.
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Yea yea yea...because peoples' graphic card(s) is/are incapable of handling games in general just because they can't handle Metro2033 at high settings...fail logic is fail.
Lag spike? lol you are seriously taking drifting's claim of lag spike on 1GB card as evidence? You clearly wasn't around when he was showing off his flawed logic and analysis on graphic card performance thinking that the extra VRAM is the center of the universe for graphic card performance, with zero regards to CPU limitation/capability or SIL/Crossfire scaling.
If your reasoning is sounded and logically, people would agree with you it is that simple; if you can't convince people to agree with you, spamming the same thing again and again just make you a troll.
Please stop bringing your religion belief from "the church of drifting 2GB" and shoving in onto peoples' faces into EVERY SINGLE thread! It's an eyesore.
Logic is too difficult for me to understand. No offense, but when I got more than 90 in Logic during my undergraduate course in one of those "good" universities here (where 70 is regarded as "first-class"), I doubt the higher education in the UK might be a little too... simple... sometimes. Please don't laugh at me when I'm not well educated.
Please, don't make things complicated for me. Please just show me which 1GB cards don't have lag spikes in Metro 2033 (DX11 max). I know the following cards all have lag spikes: 5850 1GB, 5870 1GB, GTX460 1GB, GTX560 1GB, and I can also infer that 5970 2GB (essentially 1GB per GPU) also has lag spikes. It seems you don't have much choice left there: try 6850/6870/6950 1GB.
Why Metro 2033: because it's the only handy benchmark based on frametimes, not fps averaged over. You could certainly use Fraps (tick "Frametimes") to benchmark other games such like Shogun 2, Crysis etc and I'd be happy to analyze the frametimes' data for you and show you lag spikes, but I doubt who'd put effort into that. Metro 2033 is just so easy to use, without such trouble, that's why I mention it.
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SLi 480gtxs and they are great but I do have a problem with shogun 2. I have to disable sli for shogun. I get double fps in sea battles with 1 card. Anyone else find this?
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Hummm, so why am I having these problems
295s can't do DX11, that's it. 480s should be in trouble.
Hummm, so why am I having these problems
You are not alone. It's a known bug for current nVidia driver. Campaign map stuttering + low fps in sea battles. Anyone who claims not having those problems are just pretending to be running with nVidia high-end cards in SLI or they are wasting money because they don't even know what is called lag spikes.
I fully admit that you need to turn down a couple of settings and put up with a touch of slowdown occasionally to play Metro on SLI 460's. I have played it through though, enjoyed it and thought it looked amazing.
On the other hand when I bought the game I had a single 460 and it was unplayable at 1080p. How does that make 1GB SLI cards pointless? It's a cheap(ish) upgrade that hugely improves performance.
On the other hand when I bought the game I had a single 460 and it was unplayable at 1080p. How does that make 1GB SLI cards pointless? It's a cheap(ish) upgrade that hugely improves performance.
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Double post due to my iPhone having some kind of spasm
ETA: Just because a particular setup can't max Metro it doesn't make it pointless. How much do you have to spend to max that game at 1080p with no 'lag spikes' anyway?
ETA: Just because a particular setup can't max Metro it doesn't make it pointless. How much do you have to spend to max that game at 1080p with no 'lag spikes' anyway?
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Ah good, i'm glad I'm not alone. Google only picks up demo problems and when I made a post on here before I was told I was wrong.
Double post due to my iPhone having some kind of spasm
ETA: Just because a particular setup can't max Metro it doesn't make it pointless. How much do you have to spend to max that game at 1080p with no 'lag spikes' anyway?
I'd like to think my sli 480s could max it out and I don't really consider that spending to the max at the time when they were 400-450 quid for a rediculas amount of power. Though I guess it just depends on your idea of a budget. Personally don't consider sli 460s to be good value for money due to vram limitations.
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SLI 480's are around £400. SLI 460's are around £240.
If you already have a single 460/560, a strong PSU, and a compatible motherboard, adding another is a good cost effective upgrade. If you're starting from scratch I'd agree there are better ways to go (probably single 6950 with the option of another at a later date).
Double post due to my iPhone having some kind of spasm
ETA: Just because a particular setup can't max Metro it doesn't make it pointless. How much do you have to spend to max that game at 1080p with no 'lag spikes' anyway?
I'm not commenting on GTX460s in SLI purchased about 1 year ago - it could be a decent choice. What I'm saying is that GTX560 1GB is not that cheap - but for about the same price people should get 6950 2GB CF instead, to avoid lag spikes due to vram shortage.