PCGH: Triple-SLI benchmarked!

[Origin_Unknown]

You guys are a bit off with the power consumption panic attacks.

Even if this was drawing 900W from the wall with a PSU with 80% efficiency, that means "only" 720W is being drawn from the PSU (mostly from the +12V rails). Needing a 1200W PSU for this setup is absolute hogwash. You can power this setup with a good 900W PSU.

I'm probably wrong but wouldnt it be the other way round? its drawing 900w-ish from the wall with 80% efficency so shouldnt that the actuall wattage rating should be higher without an efficent psu?

[Krizby87]

Lets jump to console systems for a bit...Why do you think Wii is doing so well?? Is it bcuz of the graphics or bcuz the games are just fun to play and you know it is always the fun-factor that always comes ont op....As you know it's currently the most seccessful console of today per unit sold....You talk about 3D oceans , vegetation, all that stuff sounds great dude ..but dont u get that outside the second you walk out the door? lol cmon now...

Here's a looney hint from a microsoft CEO , developers, developers, developers....developers..developers , developers, developers ,developers, developers, developers....developers..developers , developers, developers developers, developers, developers....developers..developers , developers, developers .... its the only way to make money.....make a game that is worth while to waste ure time on.....fun-factor is the key and not 3d oceans as if ure gonna really dive in and it go fishing..who cares...really..

Lol, can you blow people's brains off outside the door ? probably not without consequences, hence count me out here dude , Wii just target a different type of gamers aside from the fps shooter type of gamers who enjoy good graphics + playability. Though I have to say the AI in Crysis is pretty dumb compare to Call of Duty 4, I played both at the highest difficulty and the guys in CoD 4 just kicked my arse with so many clever methods.

[RedBull78]

Lol, can you blow people's brains off outside the door ? probably not without consequences, hence count me out here dude , Wii just target a different type of gamers aside from the fps shooter type of gamers who enjoy good graphics + playability. Though I have to say the AI in Crysis is pretty dumb compare to Call of Duty 4, I played both at the highest difficulty and the guys in CoD 4 just kicked my arse with so many methods.

Actually you can if you could...Just yesterday a group of teens shot like wutt 8 kids after steppin out the school bus....lol see anything is possible if u put ure mind to it....nah j/k.....but u know wut i meant..

[revogamer]

some people take games seriously, but others dont, and anyway, lets keep on topic, teens shooting people has nothing todo with Triple-SLI

[RedBull78]

some people take games seriously, but others dont, and anyway, lets keep on topic, teens shooting people has nothing todo with Triple-SLI

the only one being serious is you.....i was obviously being sarcastic...mr phoolice sir.....but please dont call pres.bush i dont want my house bombed...cmon now...lighten up....wut i said was true and it did happen...how does such news scare you?? its reality...face it...gosh

[Jimmer411]

What no 3Dmark06 run?


I figured someone would want to atleast break 30k lol

[XS2K]

Lets jump to console systems for a bit...Why do you think Wii is doing so well?? Is it bcuz of the graphics or bcuz the games are just fun to play and you know it is always the fun-factor that always comes ont op....As you know it's currently the most seccessful console of today per unit sold....You talk about 3D oceans , vegetation, all that stuff sounds great dude ..but dont u get that outside the second you walk out the door? lol cmon now...

Here's a looney hint from a microsoft CEO , developers, developers, developers....developers..developers , developers, developers ,developers, developers, developers....developers..developers , developers, developers developers, developers, developers....developers..developers , developers, developers .... its the only way to make money.....make a game that is worth while to waste ure time on.....fun-factor is the key and not 3d oceans as if ure gonna really dive in and it go fishing..who cares...really..

Wii is doing so well because of the price,the Wii controller and not lastly because all your family can have fun with it,put your granny to play Quake 4 online and see how well she reacts (PWNING n00bs etc...)....
Wii is adressed to a diffrent age category of people so you can't really compare it to PC's,yeah I know it's fun I played with one too but it's not really what a PC Gamer wants especially if you play shooters + the games for Wii are very limited unlike those for PC's or X360.
And no I don't get 3D Oceans and that kind of vegetation outside since I live in the city which hasn't got an opening to sea or ocean + I really can't kill people without having to serve some time in the prison or worse get shot...
Wii is a diffrent kind of beast,I mean it costs as much as a mainstream video card and that says alot about it's target....

[revogamer]

the only one being serious is you.....i was obviously being sarcastic...mr phoolice sir.....but please dont call pres.bush i dont want my house bombed...cmon now...lighten up....wut i said was true and it did happen...how does such news scare you?? its reality...face it...gosh

sorry, but did i say you were being serious, i was saying some people take games into reality and are stupid for doing that. that sort of thing happens everyday, none of us can do anything about it except move on right? for one im glad i dont live in the us with everything going on these days, im happy where i live and remember, why do you keep going on? this is a Triple SLI benchmark thread haha, so im just saying keep on topic. p.s. Triple SLI hasnt got too bad of a performance increase noting that it only has immature drivers, it can only improve and hopefully they'll do it for the midrange cards, and the Wii as posted above me is aimed for non-hardcore gamers, its a 'fun' console, not aimed towards people who want to go frag some aliens etc. everyone has fun there own way, doesnt mean that theres anything wrong with it. and Crysis rules, realistic graphics help towards the reality of the game and making it more enjoyable.

[Cold Fussion]

2 8800gtx's got a higher min fps in fear than 3 8800gtx's.....

[NapalmV5]

triple-sli? oh please.. its got nothing on my,


<- dozen-sli V5

[railer]

To all the people who say crysis sucks because the fps are low and cod4 o ut3 is great i think your an idiot because even on medium settings crysis looks better than cod4 or ut3 and has more detail and objects and will run perfectly fine on any rig with medium settings and reasonable resolution.


some people are special and they dont get the idea that more detail = less fps so turn down the detail for more fps sheesh its not like your forced to run maximum settings are you??

QFT.
Yes, some people are just idiots. I'm sick of people complaining about crysis performance. Just lower the frkn settings. I play it on 1152/864 res on medium settings and i get 50+ fps. No some people have to use insane resolutions plus very high. Cant you dumb asses get it that there is no hardware out to max this game? Sure blame the game developers...... Anyway just lowering your IQ makes game very playable and fun.
I'm waiting for 512 bit bus and 1G of ram GPU.....

[fireice2]

I could heat up a sandwich heating rack in my case with these.

[Pudi]

what's the point of 3x8800Ultra anyway, when 9800GTX will be here in two months time, yes I know 3x9800GTX, but this will be just to ridiculus please

[m0da]

I'm probably wrong but wouldnt it be the other way round? its drawing 900w-ish from the wall with 80% efficency so shouldnt that the actuall wattage rating should be higher without an efficent psu?

well, it goes like this
900w from wall --> (80% psu efficiency)(900w) = 720w usable power delivered to the system.

so, the system ([3]gpu/cpu/mobo/ram/etc) is all using just 720w.

with an 80% efficiency psu, you'd need exactly a 900w rating to keep this system alive (although this is peak rating, so you can't keep it at this rating for a long time!). To be safe, you'd of course have to get a higher rated psu.


anyway, 14 fps with one card --> 38 with 3 cards is a (38/14=) 271% increase. i'd say that is great scaling, especially for something this new.

[safan80]

screw SLI, I had in the 6 series and 7 series and it was a waste. Nvidia SLI != 3dfx SLI

[mascaras]

i think they used this case for the tests






(joking)



regards

[phelan1777]

They used a Cooler Master Cosmos 1000, its in a few pics and you can see the ran locations in the close ups.

[DTU_XaVier]

LoL, thats what i said two weeks ago and fanboys attacked me as if I was being delusional or a god damn jerk or something. I only stated my honest opinion that this game i call "Crysis" is really a crysis of a game to the bone. I told all my friends to skimp on it and get COD4 and Bioshock instead and they r thankfull they listented after I showed them some benchmarks on the internet which they dont normally follow. All i had to do was let them run 3dmark06 to let them see how crappy it would move bcuz if u think about it thats what it really is. It is a futuremark made game just to push people to buy video cards to enjoy some pretty slide show pictures..The game in my opinion is a flop.......This game shouldnt even exist at this time of age...It's way too overbloated and simple.....walk , jump, shoot...no story, no soul, nothing...garbage.....(my opinion) Cod4 and bioshock is 100000% way better......I mean, look at these benchmarks, even on 3-sli cards the game still suffers from poor hard core beer drinking coding....take this game back to the developers and tell em to shove it...

So now which games you buy is all about what runs best... Great, lets go play Quake 3
If you don't accept that games become better looking all the time on a PC, and that more powerful hardware is needed to run these games, then go buy a console... Calling Crysis unoptimised because you're able to run COD4 at max where Crysis gotta be turned down, then I'm authorized to kick you.. JUST LOOK AT THE GAME! For hindu's sake, what's wrong with people's eyes? Crysis and similar games is why we PLAY games on a PC, because things like these are possible... No graphics-cards out for a YEAR have been faster than the last, so naturally cutting-edge games are going to need to be turned down...

And calling Crysis gameplay simple is the biggest non-truth I've seen... Crysis gameplay is what you make of it, that's the idea of "Sandbox-style" games... You have a ton of options, and if you simply take the most straight-forward approach and does whatever the game tells you to, then that's your fault, not the game's...

"Walk, jump, shoot"

Uh... How is COD4 any different? The game runs on rails, the only things you ever do is shooting anybody that runs in your general direction, move on and shoot again... If you ever find a sniper-rifle, chances are you're going to need it, so the game even takes away your freedom of choice in weapons...
And the only way the game can make it harder for you as you progress is to throw more and more enemies your way at the same time... Yes, very modern gameplay there... And then they start timing things at the end, WHOOPI-ing-doo.... Yes, that's obviously cutting-edge gameplay... And the forced vehicle sections, no matter which vehicles we're talking about, are nothing new either...

Though I have to say the AI in Crysis is pretty dumb compare to Call of Duty 4, I played both at the highest difficulty and the guys in CoD 4 just kicked my arse with so many clever methods.

Uh... COD4 AI is so simple you wouldn't belive it... The problem is that they get some kind of aimbot-cheat at higher resolutions, not to mention their ability to shoot you as soon as you expose yourself for more than half a second... Crysis' is far more complex, the problem is that you have so many more possibilities in Crysis to out-wit them that they might seem dumb...
A game where the enemies ALWAYS run to the same spots before they start shooting, ALWAYS run the same routes, and ALWAYS stand in the same spots, can't possibly be called complex AI... Come on...


I'm not saying COD4 is a bad game, I enjoyed it a lot... But calling it more complex, better looking, higher-class gameplay or better optimized than Crysis is, IMHO a great lie...

People just love bashing Crysis and calling it a great disappointment because it doesn't run like sunshine on their PC's (which haven't improved much in general game-performance for a YEAR, which is incredible by PC-standard)...

/OT

Tri-SLi is not for the average person, just as SLi never was, but for people who want it, it's there as a possibility, which I love... NVIDIA and AMD still know that people will want a faster single-card solution, it'll come in time, when AMD get a better card out... The problem isn't that the GFX-companies think they can just keep making people buy more and more cards, but simply the fact that AMD is going through a hard time...
Just like when AMD was on top with AMD64, there was no serious improvements in performance for a VERY long time, but look at what happened....

I remember when NVIDIA and ATI were rolling out new cards every six months, people were complaining about the fact that they couldn't keep up with the development... Now that we've actually been given a break, and some incredibly performing cards at their price-points, people complain that they are coming up with ways to improve performance while we're waiting...
Congratulations hypocrites...

All in due time people, the faster cards will be rolling out by the truckload soon enough

Best Regards

[mascaras]

They used a Cooler Master Cosmos 1000, its in a few pics and you can see the ran locations in the close ups.

i was joking


regards

[Krizby87]

So now which games you buy is all about what runs best... Great, lets go play Quake 3
If you don't accept that games become better looking all the time on a PC, and that more powerful hardware is needed to run these games, then go buy a console... Calling Crysis unoptimised because you're able to run COD4 at max where Crysis gotta be turned down, then I'm authorized to kick you.. JUST LOOK AT THE GAME! For hindu's sake, what's wrong with people's eyes? Crysis and similar games is why we PLAY games on a PC, because things like these are possible... No graphics-cards out for a YEAR have been faster than the last, so naturally cutting-edge games are going to need to be turned down...

And calling Crysis gameplay simple is the biggest non-truth I've seen... Crysis gameplay is what you make of it, that's the idea of "Sandbox-style" games... You have a ton of options, and if you simply take the most straight-forward approach and does whatever the game tells you to, then that's your fault, not the game's...

"Walk, jump, shoot"

Uh... How is COD4 any different? The game runs on rails, the only things you ever do is shooting anybody that runs in your general direction, move on and shoot again... If you ever find a sniper-rifle, chances are you're going to need it, so the game even takes away your freedom of choice in weapons...
And the only way the game can make it harder for you as you progress is to throw more and more enemies your way at the same time... Yes, very modern gameplay there... And then they start timing things at the end, WHOOPI-ing-doo.... Yes, that's obviously cutting-edge gameplay... And the forced vehicle sections, no matter which vehicles we're talking about, are nothing new either...


Uh... COD4 AI is so simple you wouldn't belive it... The problem is that they get some kind of aimbot-cheat at higher resolutions, not to mention their ability to shoot you as soon as you expose yourself for more than half a second... Crysis' is far more complex, the problem is that you have so many more possibilities in Crysis to out-wit them that they might seem dumb...
A game where the enemies ALWAYS run to the same spots before they start shooting, ALWAYS run the same routes, and ALWAYS stand in the same spots, can't possibly be called complex AI... Come on...


I'm not saying COD4 is a bad game, I enjoyed it a lot... But calling it more complex, better looking, higher-class gameplay or better optimized than Crysis is, IMHO a great lie...

People just love bashing Crysis and calling it a great disappointment because it doesn't run like sunshine on their PC's (which haven't improved much in general game-performance for a YEAR, which is incredible by PC-standard)...

/OT

Tri-SLi is not for the average person, just as SLi never was, but for people who want it, it's there as a possibility, which I love... NVIDIA and AMD still know that people will want a faster single-card solution, it'll come in time, when AMD get a better card out... The problem isn't that the GFX-companies think they can just keep making people buy more and more cards, but simply the fact that AMD is going through a hard time...
Just like when AMD was on top with AMD64, there was no serious improvements in performance for a VERY long time, but look at what happened....

I remember when NVIDIA and ATI were rolling out new cards every six months, people were complaining about the fact that they couldn't keep up with the development... Now that we've actually been given a break, and some incredibly performing cards at their price-points, people complain that they are coming up with ways to improve performance while we're waiting...
Congratulations hypocrites...

All in due time people, the faster cards will be rolling out by the truckload soon enough

Best Regards

Kinda weird, I find Cod4 graphical quality to be consistent while in Crysis, the textures inside the vessel to be very bland and everything else is just beautiful. Concerning Crysis AI, on many occasions the enemies just have no idea I was shooting from and just keep looking around while I'm offing them. With CoD4 AI though, the enemies can flash and charge at ya, nade, rocket, snipe, hide behind covers and shoot, get behind and smash yar head in and best of all magic bullet (yah, I saw these guy aiming at other direction and the bullets just keep hitting me >_>)

And for triple SLI thingy, I think Nvidia is readying this technology in preparation for the new ultra high def (3400x2500 pixels or something ?), this generation is just a needed stepping stone in order to maturization this technology.

[RAMMAN]

$1800+ for 38fps sounds like garbage......i get 36fps average with my setup, everything on high except for shadow and shaders on medium.....plays very smooth.

thats odd, i get 38fps average with my setup 1280x1024 everything very high except post processing medium no AA.

[RedBull78]

Hey listen folks, everyone is entitled to their opinion so lets just say all games suck and lets try to make them better by modding them ourselves...Fair enough? I think so..

[dinos22]

Well.. on the bright side atleast it seems to scale decently from 1, 2, and 3 cards. Time to make some slim LN2 pots me thinks

why do you think kingpin had that avatar for so long

[dinos22]

13th of December already noice hehehe

watches for another date soon

[Epsilon84]

So now we have Tri SLI benches... what happened to Quad CrossFire?!