TRIPLE SLI Geforce 280 GTX vs Vapochilled Geforce 280 GTX

freak11 · Jul 12, 2008

TRIPLE SLI Geforce 280 GTX vs ONE Vapochilled Geforce 280 GTX

which you do you think is faster when playing crysis on 2560 x 1600 resolution with everything on very high and 16 AA?

Sam__ · Jul 12, 2008

Gotta be tripple sli by miles.

MIAHALLEN · Jul 12, 2008

The again...how much faster is 1.3 FPS compared to 1.2 FPS

NoL · Jul 12, 2008

Dual SLI 280GTX + Custom phase unit on the CPU will be better then Triple SLI.

Gautam · Jul 12, 2008

No, three cards on air will smoke two cards with pretty much anything done to them that you can think of.

NoL · Jul 12, 2008

Not at all, your going to be CPU bottlenecked running that high a resolution.

EmAn · Jul 12, 2008

Three of one type of card will beat 1 of the same type of card even if that said card is overclocked to is limits.

Sam__ · Jul 12, 2008

It depends on what CPU ur gunna use if it bottle necks it at all.

If ur using two OCed QX9770s on a skulltrail board i doubt ud be bottlenecked.

Neuromancer · Jul 12, 2008

NoL said:
Not at all, your going to be CPU bottlenecked running that high a resolution.

Isnt that backwards? Low resolution puts the onus on the CPU to keep up with the GPU.

ratbuddy · Jul 12, 2008

Neur0mancer said:
Isnt that backwards? Low resolution puts the onus on the CPU to keep up with the GPU.

You be correct sir..

NoL · Jul 12, 2008

No, at high resolutions the CPU will have a harder time, vs the more power you have in the GPU's. Thus it's bottlenecked, as in the CPU is causing a pinch in the overall performance.

ratbuddy · Jul 12, 2008

NoL said:
No, at high resolutions the CPU will have a harder time, vs the more power you have in the GPU's. Thus it's bottlenecked, as in the CPU is causing a pinch in the overall performance.

You have it backwards. At lower resolutions, the CPU is feeding frames to the GPUs as fast as they can be rendered and has a chance to even fall behind if the scenes are too easy for the GPUs to render. At higher resolutions, the CPU ends up able to process and send scenes to the cards faster than they can be rendered, thus transfering the bottleneck to the GPU.

NoL · Jul 12, 2008

Ah that makes sense! Thank you.

someone1029 · Aug 6, 2008

Sam__ said:
It depends on what CPU ur gunna use if it bottle necks it at all.
If ur using two OCed QX9770s on a skulltrail board i doubt ud be bottlenecked.

Yes you wouldn't have a CPU bottleneck, but you would have a RAM bottleneck due to the fact that skulltrail uses fully buffered RAM.

jokers_greg · Aug 6, 2008

3 cards on stock vs. 1 card on absolute zero... The 3 cards would destroy it.

>HyperlogiK< · Nov 2, 2008

In the same way that you aren't going to ask for a comparison of high end turbos and sperchargers if you only own a battered old chevy, I doubt he's going to consider strapping phase change to a gfx card if he hasn't got a fairly extreme CPU overclock already.

Airbornederekc · Nov 9, 2008

How about you give it a try and let us know.

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