3 way SLI, worth it?

Focus182 · May 27, 2008

3x 9800GTX is alot faster than 2x 9800GX2

and you cant go tri sli on the 9800Gx2 i dont think.. only the 9800GTX ..

~Focus

DaedalusHelios · May 27, 2008

Megasty said:
Bios flash - quick & painless. It also automatically made the CCC Overdrive ranges expand to sick levels as well. Too bad my GX2 got too hot for any kind of stable OC.

Well, thats not the best way to do it actually. If you increase the PCI-express frequency and then OC the card you get the best results because of the way most of, if not all of, the 9-series cards work. I was using stock cooling aswell.

I remember reading that its based off the way the crystal on the card works. Read W1zzards review.

Megasty · May 27, 2008

DaedalusHelios said:
Well, thats not the best way to do it actually. If you increase the PCI-express frequency and then OC the card you get the best results because of the way most of, if not all of, the 9-series cards work. I was using stock cooling aswell.

I remember reading that its based off the way the crystal on the card works. Read W1zzards review.

That was the way I OC'd the X2. The GX2 was a different story. During the week I was playing with it, I only OC'd slightly from ntune & it crashed & burned while it was completely stable w/o the OC. I always set my pci-e freq to 120 anyway but I set it back to 100 to try the most basic OC with no dice or luck. Maybe the card was a dud but it still works for the most part.

DaedalusHelios · May 27, 2008

Megasty said:
That was the way I OC'd the X2. The GX2 was a different story. During the week I was playing with it, I only OC'd slightly from ntune & it crashed & burned while it was completely stable w/o the OC. I always set my pci-e freq to 120 anyway but I set it back to 100 to try the most basic OC with no dice or luck. Maybe the card was a dud but it still works for the most part.

Is your NB WC?

My P5N-T was but my two P5N-D's are not.... I am searching for a compatible waterblock for both.

infrared · May 27, 2008

DaedalusHelios said:
Well, thats not the best way to do it actually. If you increase the PCI-express frequency and then OC the card you get the best results because of the way most of, if not all of, the 9-series cards work. I was using stock cooling aswell.

I remember reading that its based off the way the crystal on the card works. Read W1zzards review.

Raising pcie frequency will work to increase the gpu frequency. You will still reach the same max gpu frequency as with software only so it makes no difference. The pcie bus won't bottleneck the card anyway. It's also a good way to cause data corruption

Flashing the bios is the best way if you're happy doing it.

Megasty · May 27, 2008

DaedalusHelios said:
Is your NB WC?

My P5N-T was but my two P5N-D's are not.... I am searching for a compatible waterblock for both.

My maximus is but I never got it to work on it anyway. I guess it hates SLI-esque cards. My 790i accepts it with its pci-e freq stuck at 125 but it went out the window when OCing too :rolleyes:

Cold Storm · May 27, 2008

Your Max board hated Nvidia cards??? My 9800gx2 works pretty fine in the Max board... Been playing Counter strike, Crysis, and Unreal all day to day.. No problems. I haven't oc'ed it yet, but whats the worse I can do? I've broke every card I own... so Waiting on the Palit to get back in order to oc this card.
All has been good here. still get 60+ fps in games... Then the Vantage rank for me will tell all also if anyone cares for that stupid stuff...

DaedalusHelios · May 27, 2008

infrared said:
Raising pcie frequency will work to increase the gpu frequency. You will still reach the same max gpu frequency as with software only so it makes no difference. The pcie bus won't bottleneck the card anyway. It's also a good way to cause data corruption

Flashing the bios is the best way if you're happy doing it.

Thats not true. :laugh:

I have seen no data corruption at 120Mhz PCI-Express frequency and it does increase the data bandwidth of the card. It adds stress to the motherboard but thats what cooling is for. Remember OC'ing your processor causes data corruption aswell so thats just a cop out. Both cause no data corruption unless they are not stable. Or apparently if you use a 790i.

infrared · May 27, 2008

LOL at that... ^^

DaedalusHelios · May 27, 2008

infrared said:
LOL at that... ^^

Yeah I know..... its crazy that the 790i turned out to have so many issues. I never bought one.

I use Raid 0 and have had no data corruption.

Megasty · May 27, 2008

Cold Storm said:
Your Max board hated Nvidia cards??? My 9800gx2 works pretty fine in the Max board... Been playing Counter strike, Crysis, and Unreal all day to day.. No problems. I haven't oc'ed it yet, but whats the worse I can do? I've broke every card I own... so Waiting on the Palit to get back in order to oc this card.
All has been good here. still get 60+ fps in games... Then the Vantage rank for me will tell all also if anyone cares for that stupid stuff...

friggin lucky :toast:

I manage to make it boot on the maxy but installing the drivers was error city. When the drivers finally installed w/o the gd errors, I tried playing crysis & the sys went poof. After about 5 or 6 restarts vista finally loaded again. I tried my luck again with a fresh install of vista on a new test HD I'd yet to break in. 30 min later I was ready to play crysis again & the damn thing went poof again. I gave up after that. The stupid card worked fine on the 790i while the x2 worked fine on the maxy. I'm just going to leave them in their own little worlds for now - they like it better that way :laugh:

The GX2 don't mind being a paperweight either :rockout:

Cold Storm · May 27, 2008

All I had to do was install the drivers via Device Manager, and everything is perfectly clear! Only problem is vista and my Monitor doesn't like each other!

hat · May 27, 2008

infrared said:
Raising pcie frequency will work to increase the gpu frequency. You will still reach the same max gpu frequency as with software only so it makes no difference. The pcie bus won't bottleneck the card anyway. It's also a good way to cause data corruption

Flashing the bios is the best way if you're happy doing it.

my dators get corrupted at 104MHz with my 8600gts :wtf:

It was fine at 111 with my 8500gt

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