Will this board have any memory problems like the R200? It is using the Nf4 chipset which was already tested so should be a good clocker OBO.
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Will this board have any memory problems like the R200? It is using the Nf4 chipset which was already tested so should be a good clocker OBO.
Hmm thats a good question... I was able to go from my a8n-sli to a DFI board and boot into Safemode with the same OS install, but I couldn't boot into normal windows without BSOD.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vapor
http://hothardware.com/viewarticle.cfm?articleid=739Quote:
Originally Posted by Vapor
That is what he was talking about. Looks like SLI-AA modes require alot more bandwidth between cards. Although, there is no way you would get acceptable frame rates with new titles and the SLI AA modes with current hardware.
I can't imagine why not. Same chipset drivers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vapor
Complete nonsense.Quote:
Originally Posted by ElDuderino
Current cards use the equivalent of x4 at the maximum.
And even if you would starve them for half the bandwidth they could use that wouldn't mean cutting the FPS in half.
There are more components involved, you know?
Hmmmmm, VERY interesting....I can't rationalize it though. :shrug:
I wonder what performs better though? TR SSAA 8x or 8x SLI-AA? i.e., who cares if it gains 67% if it's still slower than the other implementation.
A 67% FPS win when going from 2x x8 PCIe to 2x x16PCIe?Quote:
Originally Posted by MickeyMouse
Nonsense. Link?
I was just going by the numbers that hot hardware put up...personally I love the looks of SLI-AA on my machine but would benefit greatly from a %67 fps boost that 32 lanes would provide.
http://hothardware.com/viewarticle.cfm?articleid=739
:fact: nonsense? look at the numbers
The benefit apparently won't be felt unless you run games at the maximum resolution with all settings cranked. According these results but I wouldn't put too much weight on these results because they don't even use SLI-AA which really makes the 32 lanes shine.
http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/81..._af/index.html
Only the High end will see any benifits from x16, which is who this board is supposed to be marketted to...Thus the x8 is just plain stupid....
This is not a realistic test as it overflows the 256 MB memory on the cards. Nobody would run games like that "in production".Quote:
Originally Posted by ElDuderino
If you run games with proper options you don't get the speedup out of x16.
Does anyone know when are these going to be available in US? Thanks in advance.
yeah jeezus did you even look I posted the link with my previous post.Quote:
Originally Posted by Martin Cracauer
I'm confused by what proper options are? I guess overclocking is not proper and cranking every setting to the max is also unproper? :stick: xtremesystemsQuote:
Originally Posted by Martin Cracauer
Selecting graphics options that load more textures onto the card than the crd has memory, so that textures get kicked out to agenture memory, will surely show a difference between 2x x8 and 2x x16. But nobody can run a game like that.Quote:
Originally Posted by ElDuderino
It shows an increase of about 2%. Or are we looking at different graphs?Quote:
Originally Posted by J-Mag
If don't think that is a good reason to reject a board that you would otherwise buy (because of overclocking options, 4x PCIe or similar).
This motherboard looks like It would definately be able to do "Radical Good Speed" to borrow a phrase from Straight Cougar in the anime S-Cry-Ed. :D
Talk about overclocking, This Guy is overclocked, to the Extreme. :D
http://hothardware.com/viewarticle.cfm?articleid=739Quote:
Originally Posted by Martin Cracauer
More specific:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ender17
http://hothardware.com/viewarticle.cfm?articleid=739
Oh, I stand corrected. It is actually 2.4% in 1280x1024 with AA. God god! I will never touch one of the lame DFI boards with 2x x8 again. This will kill me, it will feel like suffocating if I get 127.3 instead of 130.4 FPS.
Although, if I had that SLI setup, maybe I would run the resolution they show in the chart below. 0.5% at 1600x1280. Now if that's no killer speedup I don't know what.
But really, anything below 100 fps is just so unplayable, I would run that SLI setup in 640x480 no AA. In that case the Asus 2x x16 board will bring me what - 5% more or so 525 instead of 500 FPS? R00LZ! I will be undefeatable. Or somefink!
The difference for me, when running my X800XL overclocked, from 16x to 8x was a loss of about 40 3DMark05's. Hardly anywhere NEAR close to half the FPS.
The benefit won't be seen for benchmarks. The added lanes help when you have all the settings turned up, resolution all the way up, and the most evidence is seen when running SLI AA.
What evidence?
The hothardware review on the SLI-AA page...
Um, that's the exact same link.Quote:
Originally Posted by Martin Cracauer
I was trying to link you to the page titled "SLI-AA Performance: Far Cry"
It's the one that shows a big difference.