UnOfficial Asus Rampage II Extreme Thread

[cx-ray]

2 Cryptik: No microshuttering at all. I'm mostly playing FC2, Warhead, WoW, Grid... I upgraded from a single 280 GTX so i know what I'm talking about. Everything is smooth.

In FC2 when you look in certain directions in the desert (trees I think it's been a while), you can see a slight perceived frame rate degradation. In CoD5 though it's much worse. At the edges of many maps you clearly see things going wrong with the frame rate in SLI. Also, GoW maps with rain are completely corrupted with flickering. However, overall two way SLI is working very well and trouble free on X58. It's well worth if you demand better performance in higher resolutions.

[CryptiK]

Ok so it seems some games do in certain situations.

Do you guys have any idea if a single GTX295 has less micro-stuttering issues than 2 x 285's, or is any SLi setup going to do it regardless?

[cx-ray]

Ok so it seems some games do in certain situations.

Do you guys have any idea if a single GTX295 has less micro-stuttering issues than 2 x 285's, or is any SLi setup going to do it regardless?

You have to take into account that it's only in specific places and very minimal with the latest drivers. The only relatively new games that I think are worse off with dual SLI in higher resolutions are Brothers in Arms - Hell's Highway (stutter) and GoW (rendering corruption). All the other newer FPS & RTS games I've played are better in dual SLI compared to a single card @ 1920 x 1200 with 4-16AA.

I have almost all the hot titles from the past two years. So, if you have questions about a specific game let me know. I might be able to help.

As for two GPUs on a single card or two single cards in SLI, I personally prefer the latter. Considering past products, single cards with dual GPUs have run into serious frame rate problems. Notorious examples are the 7950 GX2 and the 9800 GX2.