Home made 3-Way SLI results

[RAW-Raptor22]

thats interesting but 2k6 is supposed to indicate how powerful your system is in current and future games. which it doesnt do at all... its way more cpu dependant than any game that is on the market and will be on the market within the next 1 or 2 years. so a dualcore system or a system with a weaker cpu will suck in 2k6 even though it performs the same ,or even better in some rare conditions, than the same system with a quadcore or more powerful cpu.

i dont like 2k6... i never did... its just 2k5+more colours and a huge cpu dependancy
and 2k5 is already too cpu dependant for my tastes...

Hence my 7.75k in 3dm06...

[zakelwe]

Sampsa and FUGGER, can you run LOD +3, +6, +9, +12 and +15 to see how that varies?

Nice work both. I guess there is an outside chance now for someone in the world to manage to have the right hardware to get to the top of the ORB with a purely air cooled system. ( before it got smashed to bits...)

With ambient at about -5-10C a new 780, a Yorkfield and 3 Ultra's would probably just about do it.

When was the last time a purely aircooled system was at the top of the Orb?

Regards

Andy

[Sampsa]

EVGA's European office just informed me that they probably won't get nForce780i SLI boards before January.... doh

[Sampsa]

Contact between stock cooler and G80 was horrible!



Finnish computer shop Jimm's PC-Store sent 3 PCS of Swiftech Stealth watercooling blocks for 3-Way SLI overclocking session, thanks!



Stealth mounted on 8800 Ultra





GeForce 8800 Ultra 3-Way SLI with watercooling blocks installed on nForce680i SLI

[Zeus]

Oooh, that looks sexy and it all fits like a glove.

When will you give it hell again?

[Vatos_locos]

just fire them up give us results man :p

[dpa]

that looks stunning Sampsa!!! give us some results..!

[metro.cl]

intel stock cooler that is like a visa moment :P

[SeLecT]

Looks nice!

I will see some results!

[purecain]

yep definatly looks like fun..... cant beat playing with hardware.... especially 3 ultras....

[zakelwe]

Looks great, time to really knock out 03 ?!

Is 03 the last great video bench before 07? Sorry, 08?

Regards

Andy

[nachthymnen]

Can't wait for the liquidcooled results

[kithylin]

PLEASE POST 3DMARK 2006 SCORES!!!

It's not that big of a deal. And if you can afford this kind of money for this rig, go buy a proper tri-sli bridge, look at the tri-sli benchmark over on guru 3d reviews.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/481/

Most of us really don't care about 2003 anymore, it's old, it doesn't properly stress your system, and it doesn't fully utilize SLI.

[Zeus]

Most of us really don't care about 2003 anymore, it's old, it doesn't properly stress your system, and it doesn't fully utilize SLI.

You'd rather speak for yourself.

2001 is even older but still the most beloved 3d benchmark around here.

100K is still one hell of an achievement, especially with a homemade SLI bridge.

[GLENBOY]

i agree with zeus 2003 is probably the most gpu dependant of the graphics benchmarks

[dinos22]

PLEASE POST 3DMARK 2006 SCORES!!!

It's not that big of a deal. And if you can afford this kind of money for this rig, go buy a proper tri-sli bridge, look at the tri-sli benchmark over on guru 3d reviews.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/481/

Most of us really don't care about 2003 anymore, it's old, it doesn't properly stress your system, and it doesn't fully utilize SLI.

we ran it last night before the mobo and CPU started to out
there was very little gain...in fact i was wondering if tri sli was working at all

[toan67]

Dear all, need yr help..........
I'm using Asus Striker extreme 680i sli and QX6850, I installed 3 vga 8800GTX trying to have tri-sli running.....but my system see just 2 vga !!!
I installed Vista Ult 32bit, also hotfix for multi vga, than 169.25 driver, but nothing, from nvidia control panel is stated only to enable sli (not 3 way sli as shown in all others pictures around the web). In effetc also gpu-z see only 2 vga as same as peripherical hardware in properties of Computer shown obly 2 vga. 3dmark06 I reached 18500 score with CPU @ 3667 but this is a score for normal SLI.
Nevertheless on Nvidia panel control once again.....no way to enable 3 way sli, only normal, in effect also abt temperature panel I see just 2 vga.

pls help me.....what shall I do ?

thank you

[George_o/c]

PLEASE POST 3DMARK 2006 SCORES!!!

It's not that big of a deal. And if you can afford this kind of money for this rig, go buy a proper tri-sli bridge, look at the tri-sli benchmark over on guru 3d reviews.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/481/

Most of us really don't care about 2003 anymore, it's old, it doesn't properly stress your system, and it doesn't fully utilize SLI.

On and on again ... It has been clearly stated by a lot of 3-Way SLi overclockers that there is a very small gain in 3D 06 with 3 VGAs ...

3D 03 on the other side of the coin, is an "empty" benchmark, as the outcome only depends on raw gpu power ... And that's why, 3-Way SLi has an incredible impact on 3D 03 ...

OLD ? So what ? 3D 01 is older than 3D 03, and still a lot of great overclockers are still benching it ... Do you have any idea, how much time and effort it takes to achieve a great score on that specific benchmark ? Have you also ever heard about the art of tweaking ? That's the marvelous thing about 3D 01 ...

Regards,
George

[Power5]

Man, that is like 4 times my score. I would love multi GPU but right now my GPU and board dont match.

[nachthymnen]

Any news/update Sampsa?

[Blacklash]

Bench 06 @ 2560x 4-8xAA|16xAF, you'll see Tri-SLi make a difference.