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Author: | thales100 [ 19 Jul 2010, 12:27 ] |
Post subject: | Re: Nvidia Surround - My first impressions |
Thales what motherboard are you running, are the 3 cards all in x16 slots ? Yes all 3 cards on x16, im running now my rig with a EVGA Classified, the performance hit you mentioned would be very small, like 1 - 2 %. |
Author: | Cygone [ 25 Jul 2010, 10:53 ] |
Post subject: | Re: Nvidia Surround - My first impressions |
Just sold my 3 GTX260s and my TH2G, bought 2 GTX470s. I have now tried nVidia Surround, EyeFinity and Matrox, I can tell you that the nVidia solution is the far easiest to set up and use. Noise and Heat of the cards is not an issue if running stock in SLI, but if you start overvolting and overclocking you need the fans at 100% and they make a hell of a racket. Gonna be putting them under water to remove the noise (even using headphones, you cant really use the fans over 80%). |
Author: | tricky [ 25 Jul 2010, 19:29 ] |
Post subject: | Re: Nvidia Surround - My first impressions |
Just some more feedback on 2 x GTX 470s, running them stock and most games don't even cause them to work too hard and so no noise, a few games kick them into high gear and I cannot hear them at all with headphones, and they are not too loud without headphones. I run my case closed and the sound goes out the back...so must depend on your setup. I have tried to overclock them but not had good results, causes lock ups...so will have to count on better drivers to get better fps... |
Author: | thales100 [ 26 Jul 2010, 00:12 ] |
Post subject: | Re: Nvidia Surround - My first impressions |
Yep, no problems here running tri-sli of GTX 480 with headphones. 8) |
Author: | thales100 [ 26 Jul 2010, 17:55 ] |
Post subject: | Re: Nvidia Surround - My first impressions |
I see you were running AVP with 100% fan. Looks about 75 cel temp wise. If you had it at 80% fan what temp does game go to? I dont know m8, maybe 88ºC - 90ºC, but where i live is really hot, so dont take my fans x temp settings as some kind of standart to run Nivida Surround, i always play with headphones so the GPUs fans dont bother me at all. |
Author: | poo417 [ 30 Jul 2010, 13:41 ] |
Post subject: | Thanks |
Hi thales, Interesting to hear your experiences with tri-sli surround. I am looking at getting either the same setup (I already have eyefinity with a 5970) or 3 x 470 as I would not need a new power supply. What type of FPS are you getting with BC2 and could you let me know what type of difference would you get over normal sli (if you dont mind droping one card out to test with bc2 :D . I have just taken the plunge and ordered 3 x 470's and a coolermaster HAF X case. If the 470's are not up to what I want they will go back and 480's will be ordered instead. So will try and get some figured up next week. |
Author: | Dick Hard [ 31 Jul 2010, 20:33 ] |
Post subject: | Re: Nvidia Surround - My first impressions |
BC2 all maxed out gets me avg 90+ fps. SO in surround 2D its superb! 3D surround,i have to lower some settings, but i don't mind,3D Surround rocks....... |
Author: | poo417 [ 02 Aug 2010, 10:51 ] |
Post subject: | Re: Thanks |
Thanks for the reply. That is not really what I wanted to hear sadly. I am now thinking just send the 470's back and get 2 480's and pick up the third when/ if they fix the drivers. I am getting similar frame rates as thales with my 5970 @6040 x 1080 but at 2 x AA and no hbao. So I can assume I would see no real improvements with just 2 x 470's running. :doh Thanks again. |
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