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So who here ever tried TRI-SLI?!

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Was just reading the AMD GAME! thread with some interest, and noticed that even amongst us, the enthusiastic 'hardcore' there are say 'extremists' in there too, the no-holds-barred-do-anything-for-one-fps personality (which is fine btw):cool:

So was wondering who here actually ever got round to or bothered with a tri-sli setup? :eek:
 
Seeing as 3 cards are hardly a increase over 2 for most games i dont see how its worth it.

Games like crysis will leave you crying spending that much on 3 cards for maybe no increase
 
I was pretty certain Tri-Sli scaled pretty well! Though obviously you would need to be playing at stupidly high resolutions to see the benefits of it however!
 
no need for it right now. they really need to sort drivers out. but i could not see a benefit going from one 9800gx2 or what have you, to three of them. apart from mega hot heat and the need of a new psu.
 
Blackhawk47 said:
no need for it right now. they really need to sort drivers out. but i could not see a benefit going from one 9800gx2 or what have you, to three of them. apart from mega hot heat and the need of a new psu.
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Dont think you can do 3 GX2's think the max is Quad SLi so your talking 2xGX2's mate!
 
so TRI-SLI, is it like a technical exercise like the Bugatti veyron? to say, 'we did it because its cool and no one else has'?

If hardly anyone here has it, how do they stand to profit on it when the enthusiast high-end market is already a small market share, making up maybe 5% of sales? did it ever make any real amount of money for 'them' ?!
 
3t3P said:
so TRI-SLI, is it like a technical exercise like the Bugatti veyron? to say, 'we did it because its cool and no one else has'?

If hardly anyone here has it, how do they stand to profit on it when the enthusiast high-end market is already a small market share, making up maybe 5% of sales? did it ever make any real amount of money for 'them' ?!
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I think that the extreme overclockers and benchers (for lack of a better term) who you don't find many, if any, on OCUK forums will have bought some.

On these forums you do find people who want top end stuff, but these people are usually concerned enough with actually doing things sensibly, that they havn't bought things like sli GX2s because they know that new tech is 'round the corner, and they'd rather wait and spend money on that.
 
Skidder and Fornowagain are the only 2 in the 3dmark 06 and vantage that have tri-sli so very few people use it.
 
i had it, was using 3x evga asc3 8800gtx's wasnt worth it imo, had it a few days then sold the 3rd card on

never benched just run a few games and didnt notice any difference at all
 
This chap certainly thinks tri-sli is beat:)
not sure if you guys may have seen it but it does verry look smooth at 22'' resolutions, surprised quad sli works that well

 
3t3P said:
This chap certainly thinks tri-sli is beat:)
not sure if you guys may have seen it but it does verry look smooth at 22'' resolutions, surprised quad sli works that well

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that is not what id call scaling well lol. but then nothing scales well with crysis. 2 gx2's and he manages 50fps average at 1680x1050. no thanks :p
 
I have 8800 gtxs setup trisli. They're OCUK value ones which i got when the prices plumetted coinciding with my first new build in 3 years so was being a bit gung ho with the budget (although one i RMA'd got replaced with a branded one) so it was probably the cheapest possible way of doing trisli.

I'm pleased i did it. Even in the few months i've had it setup the drivers have improved. As long as you don't expect each card to add 100% you do see major benefits. I play crysis at 1920*1200 almost all settings very high, a few high (having said that just got to the alien bit so a few more may need to be dropped). Other games fly.

I think to bother with trisli (and whatever next stupid overkill technology comes along) you have to enjoy the messing around with it. If you are an FPS per £ obsessive you would not be happy! But it is certainly not a matter of just a frame or two.

The amount of heat generated is crazy. I have modded my case with a couple of 120mm fans drawing cool air in directly in front of the cards and this has worked perfectly but you shouldn't have to mod to get stock tech working.

Interested to see what the next cards bring and whether one new card will match three old tech (ebay?)
 
I think most people here have more sense than to go for tri SLi, with the little gains it gives, most think dual SLi is also a waste of money too.
 
jrodga2k5 said:
I was pretty certain Tri-Sli scaled pretty well! Though obviously you would need to be playing at stupidly high resolutions to see the benefits of it however!
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From what I seen the benefit of the third card was extremely small, almost no increase at all, I think that was done in COD4 at 2560x1600 Tri 8800 Ultras, I can't remember where I saw it though, It might have been in a magazine
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3t3P said:
so TRI-SLI, is it like a technical exercise like the Bugatti veyron? to say, 'we did it because its cool and no one else has'?
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Good point, it was probably more so for the prestige that comes along with it. At the time it released, the fastest system was Tri SLI 8800 Ultra's, thus Nvidia was king. Considering that, all the rest of those mere mortals looking at that saying and consiquently buying into nvidia for the sole purpose that, if Nvidia are king of the high end, they must be the best for everything.

That last point is open to argument but I dont think you can just look at how many people have tri sli and judge it as a success or not simply on that. There are a lot of people who would buy into that brand soley because of that title. N from that perspective I think they got out of it what they intended.

Martyn
 
Skidder said:
I have 8800 gtxs setup trisli. They're OCUK value ones which i got when the prices plumetted coinciding with my first new build in 3 years so was being a bit gung ho with the budget (although one i RMA'd got replaced with a branded one) so it was probably the cheapest possible way of doing trisli.

I'm pleased i did it. Even in the few months i've had it setup the drivers have improved. As long as you don't expect each card to add 100% you do see major benefits. I play crysis at 1920*1200 almost all settings very high, a few high (having said that just got to the alien bit so a few more may need to be dropped). Other games fly.

I think to bother with trisli (and whatever next stupid overkill technology comes along) you have to enjoy the messing around with it. If you are an FPS per £ obsessive you would not be happy! But it is certainly not a matter of just a frame or two.

The amount of heat generated is crazy. I have modded my case with a couple of 120mm fans drawing cool air in directly in front of the cards and this has worked perfectly but you shouldn't have to mod to get stock tech working.

Interested to see what the next cards bring and whether one new card will match three old tech (ebay?)
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hey Skidder, out of curiosity what range of playable FPS do you get? I am thinking of SLI my lonely 8800GTX and just wondering what I could expect to see at that res?
 
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