how much of a hassle is sli?

[The_Jelly]

That's gona be death... Cause then I have to battle with xfire drivers and at the same time run a hack to enable the nvidia cards drivers to run in conjuction with the ati drivers.
Then ontop of that its the price tag.... Cause for me to get the same performance as 560's in sli I'd have to get 6950's(they are slightly faster) and still get like a gt240 for physx and that's an extra grand on top of what the 6950's cost....

[StarBound]

See the first question was how much of a hassle is it to get SLI working. The answer was hardware side is moderate if your sli bridge is broken since it only comes with motherboards. Your xfire cards has a xfire cable with every card making it much easier. Clicking and enabling SLI/Xfire is easy and in xfire case easier as it is tuneable in the taskbar itself while sli is in the nvidia control panel only.

And now you want to complicate things further with a 3rd card that brings down your entire setup from 2x8 speed pci-e slots to 3x4 speed pci-e slots. Physx is not a good enough reason to go through the hassle of hacked drivers. Just buy one or the other and enable multi GPU processing and be happy or disappointed at your result.

[The_Jelly]

thats the route i wana go, nvidia sli ftw.... i just pm'ed u starbound to ask about weather ur cards have voltage control? thort id post it here incase other readers wanted to know... so can you overvolt them?

[The_Jelly]

k here's an update iv asked around and seems that gigabyte cards have overvolting capabilities.... and so do the asus... so it boils down to gigabyte vs asus... the gigabyte is 900mhz core clock, and the asus 830mhz core clock... will oc so core clock not too important...
here are the two cards:



thier Pcb's:(not to fond of the gigabyte blue.... have a rampage 3 extreme)



and thier coolers:



the gigabyte cooler is off the SOC version, the cooler is different on the normal oc version but has the same conventional cooling design... the asus cooler is much different but still gets the job done... what card do u guys prefer???

[Slimshaedy]

Bro I'd take the one that cools the best. Also taking price into consideration...

[The_Jelly]

thers's not much in it tempreture wise, and have the same bundled items and R150 apart... it comes down to preference, brand, and looks... just wana get some opinions on which card people would spend thier money on....

[*Pilgrim*]

Asus also has a GTX560 Ti that comes factory clocked at 900/4200MHz, called the ENGTX560 Ti DCII Top.

Personally I would go with the Asus.

[JollyJamma]

Never waste your money on pre overclocked stuff.

[StarBound]

I disagree. I'm fine with factory overclocked stuff as I dont over clock and never have to then.

[THE_STIG]

Never waste your money on pre overclocked stuff.

+1 it is just not worth it, the performance gains are usually around 2-5% so really do not bother

[The_Jelly]

going pre overclocked wouldn't benefit me, as i plan to manually overclock, and both the direct cu2 and the TOP version have the same cooler and so will reach similar max clocks.... so i save R400 bucks on each card.....

ordered 2 asus direct cu2's should be here tuesday or wednesday so will post pics soon bottom i get them!