GTX260 (216) 3 Way SLI, worth it?

Hi all,

I was considering running 3 x GTX260’s in 3 Way SLI but will it be worth it? What will I gain? At the moment I am running an EVGA 260 and a Zotac 260 both core 216 although the EVGA is 65nm and the Zotac is 55nm. The 3rd card would also be the 55nm type possibly an XFX 260 Black Edition.

I have a 1kw Corsair PSU and am running an E8600 CPU at 4MHz on air with temps around 40deg. Is this CPU and PSU up to running 3 GPU’s?

Like I said at the start would it be worth adding the 3rd card?

If you need any more information please ask.

All advice, as usual, greatly appreciated

Many thanks

I do believe that it would be a waste...

4MHz cpu ey?

will do.

1. sell that 780i/790i (tri-sli right?)
2. get a p45 that can do xfire
3. do what i just said on my first post.

sorry if im forcing him to sell his old stuff, as it is the most sensible thing to do than to waste money on a tri-sli setup at this point.

Where is my car, you're asking him to sell his perfectly fine board and GPUs. Then sell them for a huge loss. Then purchase new equipment for only a marginal increase in performance? If anything a CPU upgrade would benefit him more that a new GPU as he will be CPU limited.

Hell, a single 5870 would beat out his twin SLi, and would be achievable, heh. But the question was about how much benefit from a 3rd card, to which I can't imagine there would be a huge gain with that CPU and the scaling efficiencies of SLi.

Well this thread got trolled, well done. Any way staying with what you got is not a bad idea but overclocking your cpu further will help with out spending any $$$$. See if you can get to 4~4.25GHZ with out any instability or high volts. If not see if you can track down another 260 but cheap like on newegg since there is one for $130-150 right now.

You're right about the price drops but they may come sooner than most think. Retain sales during this holiday season are going to be a blood bath for the chain stores since most are barely getting by as it is much less buying new toys.

Dispose of? Why not just stick them on a 750i with a core 2 someting in a cheap case ans sell as a intro level gamer (built to order of course, even I'm not that yee-haw).

the 57xx series are future ATI cards. If you want to crossfire ATI cards, you'll need a new mobo. Stick to SLI'ing, but as other said, I highly do not recommend TRI SLI'ing GTX260s especially at a time when they are vulnerable to significant price drops. Sell your two GTX 260's and pick up a GTX 285 if you can. Although one GTX 285 is not as strong as two GTX260s, you'll be able to SLI that GTX 285 later in the future and get a much improved performance that is equivalent or better than three GTX 260s.

OC'ed to 4ghz. You're fine.