8800gts 512mb -----> 9800gtx 512mb

[TheMiracle]

Hi!
a theory, or a really good idea; if someone with the "Eggs" (Balls:D ) here have a 8800GTS 512MB as myself, maybe, that extremme user, can test, if the Bios on the new 9800GTX 512MB works on the 8800GTS 512MB, if thats the case, We can make Tri SLI, with the 8800GTS 512MB, and earn some extra FPS, as it will not be the same, because we have no Extra SLI connector, the Tri SLI option, will work just the same, with little less performance.-
Who will be "THE" eXtremme user?;)

[Vipeax]

http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=254890

[BenchZowner]

You would NEED the Triple SLI connector and cards with two SLI connectors on them.
And no, there will be no BIOS mod to allow triple SLI with 8800GTs/GTSs AFAIK ;)

[TheMiracle]

You would NEED the Triple SLI connector and cards with two SLI connectors on them.
And no, there will be no BIOS mod to allow triple SLI with 8800GTs/GTSs AFAIK ;)

Ok thanks guys! :up: !!

[nYdGeo]

You would NEED the Triple SLI connector and cards with two SLI connectors on them.
And no, there will be no BIOS mod to allow triple SLI with 8800GTs/GTSs AFAIK ;)

We would NEED that to get the full bandwidth possible with the triple-SLI as the original poster stated quite clearly. Yes, without the extra SLI connectors to zap the outer cards together, we miss out on some bandwidth. However, there is no denying that even with that limitation, having 3 8800 GTS 512MB cards would definitely outperform 2 of them, especially with the recent addition of the PhysX processing.

You are also correct that there will be no BIOS for these cards to support this, but that is because, though I like NVidia-based products a great deal, NVidia sucks only slightly less than Microsoft when it comes to many of their business & marketing practices. They can give us that ability if they wanted to, but simply won't.

They also didn't have to promote the PCI-Express 2 slots on the 780i boards as such an advantage over the 680i configuration, but they did. I didn't understand what crap that was until I read on Anandtech that we're running PCI-Express 2 slots into a PCI-Express 1 bus...which equals squat. Then they only release the 790i boards with support for DDR3 only, which at that point in time was like $350-$650 for 2GB.

Overall, I still like NVidia-based products;they work. But as an entity, NVidia blows chunks.

[yokomo]

anyone ever tried 8800gt --> 9800gt ? again for tri sli ?

[drizzt5]

http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=254890

lol... epic thread was epic.