NVIDIA RULES ;)

Key features

Intel CPU NVIDIA SLI

System specs

CPU
Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 @ 4x 3.33 GHz
CPU Cooler
Zalman 9700 LED
Motherboard
EVGA 780i 3-way SLI
RAM
4 GB OCZ DDR2 1066 MHz dual-channel
GPU
3x XFX Nvidia GTX 280 XXX Edition (3-way SLI)
Storage
4x 150 GB WD Raptor X SATA II RAID0
Storage
2x LG DVD/DVD-RW SATA II
PSU
Tagan PipeRock 1100 W
Case
Cooler Master Stacker 840 Nvidia Edition
Fan Controller
Zalman ZM-MFC1 Plus
Fans
4x Aerocool Turbine 120 mm
OS
Vista Ultimate 64-bit

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8 Comments on NVIDIA RULES ;)

#1
prodigy223
tri sli

HOLY CRAP tri sli with the 280 this thing probably eats crysis at the highest settings!!!
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#2
ty_ger
prodigy223HOLY CRAP tri sli with the 280 this thing probably eats crysis at the highest settings!!!
Tri SLI has very poor scaling FWIW. It performs only slightly better than dual SLI and is mainly just for rich people to brag about.
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#3
DrunkenMafia
Not bad man, heaps of dollars worth of hardware in there. :eek:

Some pics with the lights on would be better though, those ones are dark and not very good quality.

lol You probably can't afford a better camera now though huh?? j/k
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#4
HyD3
Tri-SLi of just CRAZINESS!!!!!!! 9/10.....excellent job!!!!!
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#5
Morgoth
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the tri sli gtx280 just gets bottnecked...
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#6
ty_ger
Right.

Even a single GTX280 is somewhat bottlenecked at 4.5GHz. Certainly three are VERY bottlenecked at 3.33GHz. I bet there is no more than 5-10FPS difference between dual SLI GTX-280 and Tri-SLI in this system.
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#7
Morgoth
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_jMwheres the MOD.. Looks like some rich dudes case with expensive hardware and no MOD.

I do belive that this case gallery is for Modders?
no its for every one that wants to show there pc
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#8
3870x2
unfortunately scalability sucks quite a bit....scalable link interface my aZZ, very nice setup tho.
Performance increases are like:
1x - 100%
2x - 160-180%
3x - 190-200%
EDIT: and that is even with games that take advantage of it, ive seen some that actually perform worse with multiple GPU setups.

The way they used to do with SLI (used to mean Scan-Line Interleave) with 3dFX actually split per scan line, where 2 video cards could actually make up to double or triple the performance. The Scan line interleave, in my guestimation, if they put money back into the old way of doing it, would be like:
1x - 100%
2x - 190-199%
3x - 270-280%
but im sure there is a good reason why they didnt bring the old system back...
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