S77th-GOYA Posted January 1, 2005 Share Posted January 1, 2005 In light of recent posts, I thought it would be helpful to see what the community's plans are on this subject. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erikN Posted January 1, 2005 Share Posted January 1, 2005 I'm definently considering it even though it doesn't seem to increase performance in LOMAC... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4c Hajduk Veljko Posted January 1, 2005 Share Posted January 1, 2005 I answered YES! I am building a new computer right now. I will wait for a month and a half more to buy mother board and video card, because I will be absent for a month due to bussines. These are the parts that I have right now: Memory: OCZ EL Platinum Revision 2 Dual Channel Kit 184-Pin 1GB(512MBx2) DDR PC-3200 Case: 480W power supply, 2 X 120mm and 1 X 80mm Fan CPU: AMD 64 3200, 939 pin, Winchester core HD: 40GB Raptor, 36.7GB, 10 000 rpm, SATA Monitor: 19" view sonic SLI does not work for Lock On at the moment. Therefore I will buy one video card only. that will give me an option to add another card if and when NVIDIA update SLI video driver. Thermaltake Kandalf LCS | Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R | Etasis ET750 (850W Max) | i7-920 OC to 4.0 GHz | Gigabyte HD5850 | OCZ Gold 6GB DDR3 2000 | 2 X 30GB OCZ Vertex SSD in RAID 0 | ASUS VW266H 25.5" | LG Blue Ray 10X burner | TIR 5 | Saitek X-52 Pro | Logitech G930 | Saitek Pro flight rudder pedals | Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GGTharos Posted January 1, 2005 Share Posted January 1, 2005 I answered no. If youw ant more power out of LOMAC, wait until multi-processor platforms become mainstream and ED codes things up for SMP. At the same time, SLI is absolutely -no- different. This is no small feat of coding and since it will benefit VERY few people I'd rather that the money I will spend on the game go towards things that will benefit -everyone-. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Reminder: SAM = Speed Bump :D I used to play flight sims like you, but then I took a slammer to the knee - Yoda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spearsd Posted January 1, 2005 Share Posted January 1, 2005 Greetings all! I voted "NO"; yeah, SLI is crap! Bahh! LOL, just kidding!!! I already have SLI and contrary to popular belief it happily chews through a ton of games I have that aren't on NVidia's list of tested games. Just some games I've played with benefit of SLI include: America's Army, Operation Flashpoint, IL2, Falcon 4.0, Doom3, FarCry, and Battlefield Vietnam. I hear it works well for Pacific Fighters benefits also :lol: . If one is obsessed with LockOn and doesn't play anything else, well, I guess SLI isn't for that one, but then again, we all have our own opinions of what's good/bad, right/wrong, useful/useless. Oh yes, speaking of multiprocessors, when single-package multiprocessing is available to the masses, I'll get that too. No, I'm not rich; just border-line obsessive about my computer hardware. That's why I eat dehydrated soup for lunch! :wink: :lol: -spearsd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muttley Posted January 1, 2005 Share Posted January 1, 2005 That's why I eat dehydrated soup for lunch! :wink: :lol: Wow... I guess you just answered the question I posted on the other topic about games taking advantage of SLI or not... And BTW, I appreciate when one can keep his/her sense of humor under most circumstances... specially after spending big bucks just to realize it was useless for LOMAC... :D Thank God for noodles!!! FlyHigh and Check Six! Muttley, out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spearsd Posted January 2, 2005 Share Posted January 2, 2005 Actually, I also play quite a bit of FPS and squad based games in addition to LOMAC and other sims, and FiringSquad gave me a pretty good idea of what to expect out of LOMAC on SLI, but figured I'd try more REZ/FSAA combinations than they did. I'm quite befuddled about LOMAC performance because initially it does seem CPU bound, but even OC'ing my 3500+ from 2200Mhz to 2600MHz (about 18%) only resulted in an average 2fps (3-4%) higher performance at 1024x768 NO FSAA and the one 6800GT that was working barely seemed to be breathing hard. ??? That just doesn't add up. Oh well! Next week I might have some ram good for 260FSB and I'll try re-running the same benchies at various REZ/FSAA settings to see what kind of differences the OC makes. Here's to noodles! :cry: -spearsd That's why I eat dehydrated soup for lunch! :wink: :lol: Wow... I guess you just answered the question I posted on the other topic about games taking advantage of SLI or not... And BTW, I appreciate when one can keep his/her sense of humor under most circumstances... specially after spending big bucks just to realize it was useless for LOMAC... :D Thank God for noodles!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S77th-GOYA Posted January 2, 2005 Author Share Posted January 2, 2005 spearsd, in light of your small jump in FPS when OCing your CPU, when you get time, please see what OCing the GPU does. Both in SLI and single GPU modes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spearsd Posted January 2, 2005 Share Posted January 2, 2005 That's a great idea! :lol: I'll try it. spearsd, in light of your small jump in FPS when OCing your CPU, when you get time, please see what OCing the GPU does. Both in SLI and single GPU modes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeasty Posted January 2, 2005 Share Posted January 2, 2005 the smart thing to do is to buy a single video card now, then add the second one later when the price comes down. SLI buys you a big, but barely perceptible performance increase with today's games (the difference between 60 fps and 80 fps is almost negligible). the performance increase will be very noticeable, however, with the next generation of games. in the end, you'll save a couple hundred bucks by waiting until you really need the extra speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spearsd Posted January 2, 2005 Share Posted January 2, 2005 yeasty, From a budget perspective, waiting for technology is almost always the smart thing to do. Fortunately, I've never been accused of being smart! :lol: -spearsd the smart thing to do is to buy a single video card now, then add the second one later when the price comes down. SLI buys you a big, but barely perceptible performance increase with today's games (the difference between 60 fps and 80 fps is almost negligible). the performance increase will be very noticeable, however, with the next generation of games. in the end, you'll save a couple hundred bucks by waiting until you really need the extra speed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeasty Posted January 2, 2005 Share Posted January 2, 2005 i didn't mean to imply that you weren't smart. let me rephrase my suggestion as "a good compromise between price and performance if you're budget conscious." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muttley Posted January 2, 2005 Share Posted January 2, 2005 Hey yeasty, I agree with most everything you said and you touched a point which I've been battling for since the Monster3D days..."perceptible performance". In average, people only see frame rate differences up to 60fps. Beyond that, it really doesn't make a difference (except for the priveleged ones who can detect differences up to 70fps). But in my opinion, you've failed to address 2 instances which make SLI very desirable today: 1) Games which are not CPU, but graphics bound - In this case the *lowest FPS* mark benefits a lot from SLI. Let's say you play game X with one GT6800 and you're getting an average 60 fps. If you hook up another GT6800 you achieve 90 fps... no biggie... But, if your lowest FPS in the most gfx effects intensive and objects crowded scenes with just one board is 20 FPS, than SLI would surely do the trick to keep you above the magical 30 FPS at all times!! 2) Graphics quality and resolution - As implied, people who are getting 80, 90 FPS on their games, might as well trade those 30 extra FPS for in-game higher graphics settings, on-video board features like FSAA and anisotropic filtering or higher resolution. As for your "bugdet conscious", can you read pathological early adopter maniac?? :wink: FlyHigh and Check Six! Muttley, out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4c Hajduk Veljko Posted January 2, 2005 Share Posted January 2, 2005 the smart thing to do is to buy a single video card now, then add the second one later when the price comes down. That is my plan! I will be out on the road from mid January to mid february and when I return, I am buying SLI motherboard and single video card. Sometime later this year, I will buy the second video card. 1 Thermaltake Kandalf LCS | Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R | Etasis ET750 (850W Max) | i7-920 OC to 4.0 GHz | Gigabyte HD5850 | OCZ Gold 6GB DDR3 2000 | 2 X 30GB OCZ Vertex SSD in RAID 0 | ASUS VW266H 25.5" | LG Blue Ray 10X burner | TIR 5 | Saitek X-52 Pro | Logitech G930 | Saitek Pro flight rudder pedals | Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spearsd Posted January 2, 2005 Share Posted January 2, 2005 That's me! :lol: ... As for your "bugdet conscious", can you read pathological early adopter maniac?? :wink:... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yeasty Posted January 3, 2005 Share Posted January 3, 2005 a single geforce 6800 gt/ultra can run doom 3 or half-life 2 at a high enough resolution to make anti-aliasing basically moot. however, the second GPU can buy you 8X or 16x anisotropic filtering, which is noticeable. so i guess an argument can be made for SLI in today's games. i'd love to see some screens of doom 3 running at 1600x1200, ultra quality, with 16x AF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4cHerros Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 The truth is i m allredy on SLI ,but the performance are not better.First i was on 2X 6800GTUltra,and now on 7900GT but still nothing new.Well i can play online with my setings on HI ,but thet is not the point.I want 70FPS over the towns in 5 m Altitude...........shame its not going to hapend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pilotasso Posted November 19, 2006 Share Posted November 19, 2006 SLI is a waste of money. If you need to upgrade you trash 2 cards in place of one, and cards come so fast that in 6 months you could easely get a replacement that alone blows your SLI solution out of the watter. The mid range SLI solution costs as much as a single high end card and then in 6 months its obsolete and easely surpassed by a single card. This is of course not considering the extra charge you will have by milding your PC requirements over the SLI demands. Twice the power hunger and twice the noise. [sigpic]http://forums.eagle.ru/signaturepics/sigpic4448_29.gif[/sigpic] My PC specs below:Case: Corsair 400C PSU: SEASONIC SS-760XP2 760W Platinum CPU: AMD RYZEN 3900X (12C/24T) RAM: 32 GB 4266Mhz (two 2x8 kits) of trident Z RGB @3600Mhz CL 14 CR=1T MOBO: ASUS CROSSHAIR HERO VI AM4 GFX: GTX 1080Ti MSI Gaming X Cooler: NXZT Kraken X62 280mm AIO Storage: Samsung 960 EVO 1TB M.2+6GB WD 6Gb red HOTAS: Thrustmaster Warthog + CH pro pedals Monitor: Gigabyte AORUS AD27QD Freesync HDR400 1440P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VMFA117_Poko Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 Pilotasso is right! It's a waste of money since You won't get double performance but will pay as for a double. I tried that. Better solution is to buy mainboard with crossover (or whatever it's called) for ATIs cards. This will double your performance but don't know will it be feel in LOMAC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kula66 Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 No, unless they can squeeze it into a laptop! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scart Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 No, cause it's no practical use from it 4 me. Also I've read some test with LO included 7950 GX2 & 7900 GTX and the GTX had more FPS than GX2. P.S. LO is the only game I have on my pc. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] летаю на заказ, дорого... "The FlankerForce"© -=приостановлено=- Лучшее средство завоевания господства в воздухе - танк посередине ВПП © не установлено АХТУНГ! эксперды атакуют! Только отсутствие разведанных запасов нефти в Антарктиде, удерживает пингвинов от демократии. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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