Another GeForce GTX 295 article yet this time around more of a combo where we'll bring the GeForce GTX 295 head to head against the Radeon 4870 X2 in 4-way GPU gaming. That's right both cards are... More...
In Call Of Duty 5 YOU have to disable FPS lock! Go to console and type ... con_maxfps 1 or 0 ... enjoy
nice man quad sli/cf looks like fun....even if the thing did not run all that great in every single app with all those gpu cores on the board i'd still have a big grin on my face. btw boss i know your not the the "d.j" to take requests but......3d03 uses more than 2 cpu cores for both camps. only thing besides vantage that doesfrom futuremark ....maybe you might think about adding it when next bolt on card comes out? you know just for scaling not for scores.
The GTX 295 and GTX 295 in quad SLi is a lot like the Motorbike.. The triumph rocket III.. its an insanely stupidly powerfull bike and then someone goes and takes this stupid bike and wacks a super charger on the side!! So.. the GTX 295 is the Rocket II.. In Quad SLi its a Rocket III with a Super Charger!! INASNE! power Power POWER! (followed buy a Tim Allen grunt lol)
Yeah people lately have been requesting wide screen resolution testing. So for reviews starting this year we'll do a mixture of that. A couple of games in wide screen, others 4:3 etc and indeed 1920x1080 for the Full HD lovaahs.
Hilbert can you please test Crysis or Crysis Warhead in Enthusiast/Ultra settings? These configurations should be powerful enough to run a few benches in highest settings. Great review otherwise!
Great , Great review Hilbert , Big Props for such a well done article :thumbup: I was waiting for this review for a long time. Seems that Red team needs to get those drivers bugs iron out , i had your same issue as the one describe on your Review ,but a fresh install of Vista Solve it. Its freaking unbelievable how fast Quad GPU gaming its when its working correctly , i know i enjoy it to the Max and get inmerse on those games for long hours at a time ,loosing track of time until wifes screams back to me you need a break honey lol. Thanks for an Awsome Article. chispy.
I would read the review a little closer as Hilbert clearly states that only one card is working on that particular game(s), this is always a problem with quadfire and quad sli systems as driver support is so sporadic...This is why I would be so nervous investing is such an expensive setup. Interesting review though, good work.
Hoped there were some gtx280 tri-sli results in the charts. Wonder wich Nvidia setup is the king now ? I guess it's still the GTX280 tri-sli because higher clocks and more memory. If anyone find a comparision between those two setups, let me know
Would you be able to test the Quad SLI setup using the latest 185.20? I would be interested to know how 295 sli copes with ambient occlusion as well as 64x and 64xq AA A reply to know if this is possible would be good. Great article btw Thankyou
GeForce GTX 295 Quad SLI gaming! What a beautiful and totally insane setup at the same time! I wish, I could afford one. Those benchmark results are just mind blowing... A very nice article and much appreciated, as always. :thumbup:
Good article and it's nice to see some other fans of Quad-SLI. I've been running my BFG 9800GX2 1gb in Quad-SLI for some time now and I'm still really enjoying the performance. I was curious if there are some benchmarks available for how the 9800GX2 Quad-SLI stacks up to the GTX295s, 4870 X2, GTX 280 SLI, etc. Did you guys happen to test this as well or is my best source still the VGA charts available on guru3d?
Atomic power yeah...too much for me I guess...but I`m considering it. Just have to upgrade my PSU...never done that...later on with better drivers this setup will surprise us again (I hope)
Well, if I saw Crysis get over 100 FPS at 1600x1200 then I'd be happy. It's understandable that it doesn't with just 1 295, but come on, 3 more and it goes up like 20-30%. What a total waste of money. Glad to know that Crysis still runs like crap no matter how much power you throw at it.
I agree with you, Alexstarfire. I think, the result with one GTX 295 at 1920 x 1200 @ 49 fps and the two GTX 295s @ 58 fps is a bit, hm, "unspectacular"... But as Hilbert mentioned it in the article, it's more than likely that we're experiencing a lack of frame buffer here. Very interesting, imo. Does this mean that the GT300 cards will feature 1.5 GB or maybe even 2 GB of video memory?
I see your point cyber, however i think you really only run out of frame buffer at 2560*1600 and i should imagine few people game at that res. So dont think theres a gr8 need to for cards with 1.5GB yet, let alone 2GB. Though you did mention this on the GT300 so by the time there out who knows what the requirements for the latest games will be then? Still not sure it would be necessary though, not to mention they'll be GDDR5 wonder how much that would push prices up if running 1.5-2GB of RAM lol
