I love to look at other peoples rigs mainly coz no 2 rigs look the same... so iv taken a few pics of my rig and have decided to post them on here, feel free to reply with opinions and pics of ur own rigs. I havnt seen many sli rigs on here so all you sli folk out there (or crossfire, havnt seen any of those) get posting some pics!! Just so you know yes i do need to clean my case, it isnt scratched. its got a weird brushed aluminium finish to it which seems to collect anything which makes contact with it, my pc has been hauled around quite a bit lately... and i really need to sort out my wiring, especially after looking at the tidiness of some of the cable managed rigs.... make mine look like a mess!!
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SLI pics... or pics in general
- Thread starter sandyduff
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There's a couple of threads going around for rig pics but o well ..
Here's my SLI rig (2x8800GTS 640MB)
and this was my Crossfire X rig .. (HD3870X2 + HD3870XT)
Here's my SLI rig (2x8800GTS 640MB)
and this was my Crossfire X rig .. (HD3870X2 + HD3870XT)
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Looks good.I love the case.You might wanna tidy up the wires but othert han that its awesome.Any benchmarks? Id like to compare my 8800GTS 512mb with your 8800GTX's .!!!!!!!
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loving the case there thideras!! good airflow!! i actually quite like the look of the silver one... is it silver with black mesh? hang on... is that 3 graphics cards in there...? but a bridge which only hooks up 2 of them?
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What keyboard is that? looks similiar to the logitech g15. i bought the g11 coz i feared that during gaming i would be distracted by the little lcd screen only to return to my monitor where i would most likely.... be dead... i quite like it in silver, looks very bright n not scary, whereas the whole black setup does look menacing.... even tho it is only a tower....
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Yup, it is the revised G15, I like it a ton better than the old one
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what does the little lcd screen actually display? i do like the look of that g15, it doesnt have the macros buttons which mine do, so far iv only found 1 compatible game for them... doom 3, which i have played to death... altho i do like the blue glow of my keyboard, goes well with the black.... even tho im describing it in detail, just saw my camera.... il post a pic in a min....
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Depends what games you play. At the desktop it can do the time, cpu/mem usage, stopwatch/timer and even what media you are playing.
If I'm in WoW, I can see character stats in real time without having the character window open, battleground stats and private messages. I didn't even have to change or configure anything, it did it by itself.
I'm sure there are a ton more programs out there, I just haven't looked.
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I 3Dmark06/05 and 03 and 2001 SE and maybe aquamark.I see your sig,14000 in 3dmark06.My 1 8800GTS gets 16000.Was that run at all stock cards and cpu?
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cards are completely stock as i need to improve cooling for my graphics cards for overclocking, my 2nd 8800gtx sits very low down in the case so the fan isnt doing a great job, when i get cash im gonna install some more fans. My cpu is barely overclocked from 2.66GHz to 3GHz, i like round numbers.... have you OC'ed?
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My 900.
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Lol .. That is with the cables tidy'd .. Case is a Thermaltake Tsunami Dream, its small and thus very very hard to work in with SLI and a thermalright heatsink city .. lol ..
I haven't run any benches on my SLI rig for ages and can't really remember what I scored last time I did .. My brother uses it now ..
I just swapped out my HD3870X2 for a 9800GX2 and I like this card way much more .. Its a beast! (3DMark 06 and 3DMark Vantage Orb links are in sig) .. I too love my CM Stacker .. It really is the best case I've ever had (and i've had a lot of different cases), the air flow is unbeatable I'd say .. + they look awesome .. Although I agree on the silver not being great thing, black looks much better
In my experience, SLI and Crossfire is good, but not the greatest. The performance increases gained from adding a 2nd card aren't always that big and the amount of extra heat and noise can be hard to manage .. + running SLI/Crossfire forces you to go out and get a bigger case and a more capable PSU ..
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that setup is sweet... i was considering selling my 8800gtx and going for a gx2 but then i did a bit of reading and sli seemed a good option, i have had a significant performance gain... with 1 8800gtx i could only run crysis at 1440x900 with most settings on medium and a couple on high, but with a second gtx added and running sli, i can play it at 1680x1050 with everything on very high... as i was expecting in all honesty. But it seems that a single gx2 can do the exact same.... hmmm... im beginning to regret my decision....
