VMFA-Blaze Posted June 18, 2007 Posted June 18, 2007 I've got two cards running in SLI... I was a little nervous at first, but found that it wasn't really that hard to do after all... I mean the hardest part was physically installing the two cards into the case.... These bad boys are big and take up 4 slots.... And connecting the SLI power cables and having to bundle all of the wires properly, making sure that I didn't dislodge the SATA connections from the HD's or fans was frustrating... As far as setting up SLI that was a piece of cake... I've got a Asus P5N32-E with the Nvidia 680i chipset.. So I went into the BIOS first and enabled SLI, then I set up a mild OC of 1%.... These seems to have taken very well after one or two hard boots... But its just as I suspected, there wasn't much of a PFS increase here in FC.. But FSX is really rocking now along with a few other simulators.. This was very cool to try for the first time, and its awesome to just look at those big cards nestled in the bright red Asus gaming case... :thumbup: Blaze intel Cor i7-6700K ASUS ROG MAX VIII Extreme G.Skill TridentZ Series 32 GB Samsung 850 Pro 1TB SATA II ASUS GTX 1080/DIRECTX 12 Windows 10 PRO Thrustmaster Warthog Oculus Rift VR
VMFA-Blaze Posted June 20, 2007 Author Posted June 20, 2007 I'm actually going to retract my comment about seeing hardly any improvement since this installation .. On the contrary there seems to be an increase of about 6 to 8 FPS.. the detail and is much sharper and the shadders and lighting effects have also improved... Colors are a lot more brilliant, hues are much deeper... All in all Flaming Cliffs is a much better experience... It's running much more efficiently as it seems the CPU has very little need to address any graphical tasks ... ~S~ Blaze intel Cor i7-6700K ASUS ROG MAX VIII Extreme G.Skill TridentZ Series 32 GB Samsung 850 Pro 1TB SATA II ASUS GTX 1080/DIRECTX 12 Windows 10 PRO Thrustmaster Warthog Oculus Rift VR
HPO Posted June 21, 2007 Posted June 21, 2007 Congrats with your new rig that thing must be flying :)
*Rage* Posted June 21, 2007 Posted June 21, 2007 I thought Lomac only benefited from crossfire, not SLI. Has your minimum FPS improved at all? Thx for sharing [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] 64th "Scorpions" Aggressor Squadron Discord: 64th Aggressor Squadron TS: 195.201.110.22
ED Team Groove Posted June 21, 2007 ED Team Posted June 21, 2007 Im glad to hear that u gained a massive FPS boost in FSX. Because getting 6-8 fps in lock on wouldnt be worth the money... Our Forum Rules: http://forums.eagle.ru/rules.php#en
VMFA-Blaze Posted June 22, 2007 Author Posted June 22, 2007 I thought Lomac only benefited from crossfire, not SLI. Has your minimum FPS improved at all? Thx for sharing I actually had been thinking about trying out crossfire and had a Commando motherboard.. but I wasn't really sold completely on the idea ... I was waiting for some news concerning ATI's DX10 card.. And I've heard some rather uninspired comments concerning ATI so I've had a change of plans... I sold my Commando on e-bay and got an 680i MB for the sole purpose of running SLI and then added a second 8800 GTS.. And actually I'm glad that I did.. As I've stated above Lock On looks fantastic in SLI... There was a post last month that had several graphs showing performance of various GPU configurations and the 8800 gts in SLI came out at the top of the most of the lists.. I'm not a fanboi of anything so if I see something that's going to give me better performance I'm going to buy it, and so far ATI hasn't come up to the same standards the Nvidia has.. I've built this system to take me to the next level of flight simulation.. So my gut feeling is that Black Shark and ED's new engine will be awesome with SLI... I've been reading alot about ATI having some issues with Microsoft. And since the 8800 was released first most of the developers were useing the 8 seris to develop their latest games.. Its sort of the way things stacked up back in the day when ATI ruled and Nvidia was trying to compete with their 5 series... As far as my CPU is concerned I was always been an AMD man, But I'm now running a intel e6600 dual core, but I'm toying with the idea of running with a quad... Its easy to just take out the CPU and put in a new one... Blaze intel Cor i7-6700K ASUS ROG MAX VIII Extreme G.Skill TridentZ Series 32 GB Samsung 850 Pro 1TB SATA II ASUS GTX 1080/DIRECTX 12 Windows 10 PRO Thrustmaster Warthog Oculus Rift VR
VMFA-Blaze Posted June 26, 2007 Author Posted June 26, 2007 Just a little update here regarding the SLI setup... Besides really increasing the visual experience with Lock On, the DVD player has reaped some benefit as well.. Since this system is also used as my Home Theatre PC, I've found a web sight that offers movie downloads ... So I've begun to watch a lot and have actually found that these 8800 in SLI have increased the quality of the DVD's playback... I've Also purchased PureVideo from Invida and have found the options for enabling HD playback as well as Blue Ray... The thing is I'm not really sure if PureVideo has really increased the visual or was it SLI or maybe it was both?? Anyway its working and I think that's really what matters... :thumbup: Blaze intel Cor i7-6700K ASUS ROG MAX VIII Extreme G.Skill TridentZ Series 32 GB Samsung 850 Pro 1TB SATA II ASUS GTX 1080/DIRECTX 12 Windows 10 PRO Thrustmaster Warthog Oculus Rift VR
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