Gtx 280 sli vs tri sli

Hi

Just wondering what kind of performance increase I can see in a game at crysis going from sli to tri with gtx 280's? My resolution is only 1620 by 1050

thanks

Not only for crysis, but that is the most demanding game to date, so it would be a good comparison.

What do you mean by maxed? Obviously very high, but any aa....what res....and what fps?


thanks a lot!

alright thanks! Im using a 22in fyi....well i guess ill just get a 2nd card then and save a bit not getting the 3rd then?

The last comment is really not needed. This is a family site so please try to conduct yourself in a better manner.

Yea thats deff true......well I just cant wait for crysis 2

Never play WoW and have got crysis and warhead...??? what planet u on?

Blu-ray and MAXED

Not true. Depends on the game as most RTS and turn based games are CPU limited by a huge amount. No matter what card you have you won't see good frames without a very solid CPU.

The monitor dictates what the max res is.

There is a thing called google...but here u go http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-aliasing.

Its basically "eye candy" fixes fuzzy edges and such. You might see some grass moving in the wind and normally the edge will be kinda jagged. But with aa it fixes that i.e makes it smooth. It requires a lot of graphics card power, especially in very demanding games like crysis.

lol....thanks

I did google on AA but got a lot of crap........

Now I can google on Anti Aliasing.... Thats what I needed to know to do my research

Thanks

fyi the gtx 280's I heard scale very well. just sayin. So at what resolutions do you start to see tri sli worth it?

Well even my 9600 runs cod4 completely maxed, full aa, etc. so thats not really a fair comparison. Someone correct me if im wrong, but only certain games are optimized with sli. So if the game doesnt support sli or is only capable of displaying a certain amount of fps than you cant hold that against sli. Sli/crossfire does make a significant difference, if it diddnt work than so many people wouldnt spend so much on it. A game like fary cry 2, half life ep 2 or crysis are much more demanding than cod4 and definitely support sli fully.

Something is wrong if you min frame rates never went up. Cod 4 is optimized for sli but you have to select multiple graphics in the menu.

with crysis you are looking at around 50 fps for that res with everythign at max. So you are probably looking at a 20fps increas. I think with my 285's at 1920x1200 I get around 70 fps so you might get more. As soon as I get my motherboard back I will run some benchmarks again. I have tri sli because I like to play things maxed without worrying about anything. Would I do it again. yes I probably will once the new cards come out. Is it worth it to many no. I dont base what I do on what others think. I wanted the fastest gfx combo I could get and thats what I did. It has nothign to do with epen or anything like that because I dont boast or could care less what others think. If you have the money and want to try it I say do it. you can always sell your card and you will know.. Problem with me is I always wonder untill I eventually do it. In the long run I spent more money not going tri sli with the 285's than if I would have just purchased them right out. Went through 3 gtx 260's and 2 4870's till I bought the gtx 285's.

I max out the aa and af and play at the max setting cant remember what it is in crysis. I get between 50 and 75 fps during the whole game at 1920x1200. I do get a little slow down when the game autosaves but otherwise it is smooth as silk. Most people here think we are stupd for doing this but hey people spend thier money on other things like clothes or cars and I spend mine on computers. What you can do is try sli first and if that is not enough then go tri unless you are like me and just do it anyways.I dont think you need tri sli and I dont think I need tri sli but I am glad I have it and do not regret it.

It appears an i7 965 can push SLI GTX 280s better than anything else. You have one so I would assume you would know for a fact. Have a nice read. Also, later in the article is shows a Q9770 vs i7 965, because they run at the same frequencies. i7 handles dual GPUs just fine, it's when it gets to 3 GPUs, a CPU limitation becomes more evident. i7 performs much better than last generation CPUs with multiple GPU setups. Also, Crysis scales up to 3 threads and not much, if anything beyond that. Especially with a CPU which has 8 threads. Crysis chooses a thread to run on, not necessarily a given CPU core.

With a GPU core increase from 576MHz -> 626MHz, I see about a ~2k point increase on 3DMARK06. such a large jump would lead one to assume that I am experiencing a GPU limitation in that benchmark.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/core [...] e-review/7

The GPUs scale well with enough CPU power. Take a look at the link I posted in my previous post to see the difference in CPU architectures. Also keep in mind that the Yorkfield Core 2 Quads are still faster clock for clock than AMDs Phenom 2 line. The difference is larger than I would have expected. People claim dual cores are better for games regardless of GPU/games and that thinking seems to be outdated with current technology.