My Experiment with SLI

[33Vortex]

Running a GTX280i SLI configuration here, there is no problem managing all GFX settings in the nVidia control panel. To force Vsync is a must to get smooth and good image quality imo. Running at a monstrous resolution of 2560x1600 with 16x aa it still max out at 60 fps. It will never, under any circumstance, go below 30 fps unless I'm recording FRAPS while running the game.

Built this system for max performance in AH and I have no complaints so far.


Corsair PowerSupply (PSU) 1000W HX ATX 2.2 - The most important component imo. System reliability is directly connected to the PSU.
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4 GHz 1066 FSB - Next component to be upgraded.
XFX ATX nForce 780i
XFX GTX280i 1 GB RAM - dual-SLI setup giving a total of 2 GB GFX RAM
4 GB Corsair XMS2 Xtreme DDR2 XMS2-6400 800MHz
Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi Xtreme Music
Samsung SATAII 1TB
Seagate SATAII 1.5TB
Pioneer Blu-Ray / DVD BDC-S02BK
Lian Li PC-P80 ArmorSuit

Creative Gigaworks S750 - 7.1 surround system THX certified
Sennheiser Headset PC-160 SK-Gaming limited edition

Samsung SyncMaster 305T Plus 30" LCD 2560x1600 native resolution
Saitex X52 Pro
TrackIR 4 Pro + TrackClip
Razer Lycosa Gaming Keyboard
Logitech G5 Laser Mouse

Vista Home Premium 32-bit

[AirFlyer]

Should go with a 64-bit OS. All that RAM is wasted if the OS can't utilize it.

[33Vortex]

Too many issues with 64-bit. Was running 64-bit a year ago on AMD Phenom and had a lot of system reliability issues but yeah, the RAM was extremely fast.

[AirFlyer]

Really? I run Win. XP Pro 64-bit and it's just as stable as any 32-bit OS I've used. I can't comment with Vista 64-bit as I don't have a whole lot of exp. with it.

[Chalenge]

You are depressing me. What field was that btw?

Unfortunately for me my resume is most recently populated with nothing more than CAD but the field would be Construction or Civil Engineering or Survey. All of them apply to the construction woes in Florida but the job I applied for was Pipe Layout Drafting for the oil company. Of course the job in CAD I prefer is interior layout for executive jets which is limited in the number of companies doing that sort of thing.

[Getback]

Unfortunately for me my resume is most recently populated with nothing more than CAD but the field would be Construction or Civil Engineering or Survey. All of them apply to the construction woes in Florida but the job I applied for was Pipe Layout Drafting for the oil company. Of course the job in CAD I prefer is interior layout for executive jets which is limited in the number of companies doing that sort of thing.

Now that sounds awesome. Just an over educated accountant here. I keep trying.

[FireDrgn]

I was reading MaximumPC magazine. and I'm going to quote  a few things. Just so you all have the info.  If your currant CPU is slower than 2.93 duel-core Conroe you probably wont see much benefit in games other that Crysis if you upgrade to more than one graphics card" "the CPU cant handle its tasks fast enough."

Also "in many situations. a custom profile must be added to the videocard's driver before the game will recognize and assign part of the rendering workload to the second GPU"

Just thought you might want the info if you are considering two cards...


You will have to do a search to find the relevant link but I'm remember reading that AH works better with Nivida cards than ATi...

I suppose I would ask "Skuzzy" for sure he many have very differant info.

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[Chalenge]

I think thats in agreement with everything I have run into.