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[Vulpesveritas]

Aze Mi Vithe, on 13 June 2012 - 08:13 PM, said:

I have to say it was a nice choice......Steelo

I have a question for the others.....since they don't want to drop the issue about the board.
I have looked up stats on both mine and the ASRock. They are pretty much the same, but I did notice something odd.
They have it posted to do Quad Crossfire/SLI when it only has 3 PCIe slot. Unless they are counting the x1 slot, which in many gaming communities is a no go, since it can't keep up with x16/8/4. why list it this way? Is it a miss print on Newegg or ASRock, or does it turely have this feature?

Dual GPU cards like the Radeon HD 6990 and the Nvidia Geforce GTX 690 allow for quad Xfire / SLI.

[Catamount]

Indeed, few motherboards have four PCIE slots of 4x or higher, let alone 8x or higher, so quad xfire/SLI often refers to dual-GPU cards.

Of course, if one is even consideration such an option, then clearly there's spare cash there to buy a much higher end motherboard one way or the other.

Edited by Catamount, 13 June 2012 - 09:24 PM.

[Aze Mi Vithe]

I get the idea, but I cant say that that is true quad SLI/Crossfire. That is still only two cards......even if it has dual GPUs. You're still only have one bridge, right? So how is that Quad, other than having dual GPUs? Now I am building a custom case from aluminum and friberglass. I was planing to go with 4 video cards, several SSD drives and the best CPU/Motherboard combination I can find, when the time comes. I'm looking to make the fastest, most interactive pc, in the private sector. Although I have been building systems since the begining of 2000, I still have a few things that I don't totally understand. In fact, this is the second or third pc, I''l be doing Crossfire/SLI on (still working on my honies pc). I guess, I wanna know if its possible to Crossfire/SLI 4 Dual GPU cards.

Edited by Aze Mi Vithe, 14 June 2012 - 09:36 AM.

[chumppi]

Gendou, on 11 June 2012 - 01:36 PM, said:

I put together this PC build based on advice from both the Ars Technica System Build Guide and the MMO-Champion Build of the Month.

• Case: GAMMA Classic Series - $50
  
• PSU: Corsair Builder Series CX600 - $60
  
• CPU: Intel Core i5-2500K - $225
  
• M/B: ASUS P8Z68-V LE - $140
  
• RAM: 8GB Corsair DDR3 12800 - $60
  
• Vid: Sapphire Radeon 6870 - $170
  
• HDD: WD Caviar Black 1TB - $130
  
• SSD: Crucial M4 128gb - $125
  
• Opt: Asus 24x DVD/RW - $20
  
• LCD: ViewSonic VX2250WM-LED 22-Inch - $150
  
• O/S: Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium OEM - $100

Came out to just over USD$1200, and that includes everything.
Ended up building three of them (one for me, one for my wife, and one for my best mate), and they all perform fantastically well.
Everything I've thrown at them has been playable at native resolution (1920x1080) with all the details turned up.

I wouldn't touch Radeon and their drivers with a 10 foot pole, they're god awful.

[iSyn]

OS Version: Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
RAM: Ripjaws Z Series 4GB (24GB Total)
CPU Name: Intel® Core™ i7 Extreme 975 @ 3.33GHz (water-cooled with the Corsair H80)
Case: Cooler Master HAF X Full Tower Case
Video Card Description: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570
Monitor: Hanns-G HDMI HZ251 24"
Mobo: ASUS P6X58D-E Extreme Design
Windows Experience Index Rating: 5.9


This is my new rig I just build a couple months ago, runs every game I have like a champ on the highest setting, only thing I will change in the future is probably get a better video card, I'm hoping it'll run MWO like a champ on high, it did with Crysis 2 so we'll see. I get my parts from both Newegg and TigerDirect, in case others don't know about them.


edit: bolded spec's and added a few things that i missed

Edited by iSyn, 14 June 2012 - 12:36 PM.

[Gendou]

chumppi, on 14 June 2012 - 09:45 AM, said:

I wouldnf't touch Radeon and their drivers with a 10 foot pole, they're god awful.

I used to be all about nVidia. My last several machines have had nVidia graphics.
But this time around, at the price point I was looking at, none of the nVidia offers came close to the Radeon 6870.
I've been running it for several months, played a lot of different games, and it's been a spectacular card thus far.

I might regret my purchase someday, but for the time being, it's no better or worse than the nVidia cards I've owned over the years.

[Vulpesveritas]

Aze Mi Vithe, on 14 June 2012 - 09:35 AM, said:

I get the idea, but I cant say that that is true quad SLI/Crossfire. That is still only two cards......even if it has dual GPUs. You're still only have one bridge, right? So how is that Quad, other than having dual GPUs? Now I am building a custom case from aluminum and friberglass. I was planing to go with 4 video cards, several SSD drives and the best CPU/Motherboard combination I can find, when the time comes. I'm looking to make the fastest, most interactive pc, in the private sector. Although I have been building systems since the begining of 2000, I still have a few things that I don't totally understand. In fact, this is the second or third pc, I''l be doing Crossfire/SLI on (still working on my honies pc). I guess, I wanna know if its possible to Crossfire/SLI 4 Dual GPU cards.

It is... on AM3+ http://www.newegg.co...N82E16813128508 (if you are watercooling and hence using single slot cards) and LGA2011 http://www.newegg.co...N82E16813130626 (also LGA 1366, but that's an old socket of course)

Edited by Vulpesveritas, 15 June 2012 - 12:12 AM.