hey everyone. I just upgraded my comp and now running 3 BFG 8800gtx oc's. But im wondering if my cpu is bottlenecking these 3 cards? i have an intel c2d e6750 oc'ed to 3.5ghz. would this be bottlenecking them? ive seen vids of guys with same cards and oc'd quad core playing crysis @ 1680res 2x fsaa very high settings, completely smooth, i do that and i get some fps slowdowns in parts, or is that just becuase crysis is a system hog? I normally play 1920x1080res everything on very high settings. The rest of my system specs are on the side. thanks for ur guys input, it will be much appreciated!!!!
If you are running at 1680 res then yes you would experience a huge bottleneck with 3 GPU's. If you could upgrade your monitor to a higher res then you could close this bottleneck margin, since higher the res means higher the GPU stress.
Why in the world would someone even want to be running 3 video cards at 1680 though? One GTX 280 or 4870X2/GTX 295 can easily run any settings on any game at that resolution. Not to mention very few games even use the 3rd video card.
if you want mroe out of that 3rd 8800GTX even sec one you need to get a bigger montior. Because there no reason to even SLI or CF any thing at that res.few more other cards can too, 1 8800GT, 1 4850 of couse not crysis. But still all your doing is wasting that SLI setup, and reinstalling drivers isnt gonna fix a bottle neck with 3 cards running at that res. The only thing that gonna fix that is a 24inch montior and or a 30inch.
He is playing at 1080p... tri-sli is not a very good idea but if it works... For crysis i think that cpu is enough... i haven't tried with very high settings on mine so... can't really say...
CPU isn't even close to enough, Crysis loves higher clock speeds, meaning the Wolfdales (45nm) benefit or i7. Basically the fastest possible is what Crysis wants, not his older Conroe. But yes I read that resolution wrong, but still Tri-SLI is a dumb idea. SLI is plenty for anyone, especially only at 1920x1080. I play at 1920x1200 with one G92 8800 GTS 512mb, it's really not that hard.
hi all .. i wanna know if my bottlenecking my cpu at 4.0ghz intel c2d e8500 with 4870x2 in crossfireX ? .. i play games at 1920x1200res 24 monitor . thx you
not by much mate but that 8500 will be alright and not bottleneck by much. I would check the i7 cores review and see how much fps they get with a 4870x2
He's running 2x 4870 X2s, even a C2D at 4GHz will be holding things back. When I had 3x 8800GTXs performance was still scaling with my CPU at 4GHz, even with 2x 8800GTXs there is a noticeable difference in performance between 3GHz and 4GHz, at high resolutions too (1920x1200).
Almost all modern GPU's are bottlenecked by the CPU, even at fairly high resolutions. My single 9800GX2 was still scaling all the way up to 4.5Ghz when I had my E8600.... It's quite astonishing really, GPU developement is really outpacing CPU's (all the more reason Intel SHOULD have had 4Ghz stock CPU's, we all knew the Wolfies were capable of it).
thanks for the replys guys. I am playing at 1920x1080 on a 24inch moniter. I just tried the 1680 test cause i saw guys wiht the same setup as me run that test. So i should either OC my cpu even higher? or just get a new cpu?
hi again.. will increasing FSB help with the bottlenecked changeing fsb upto 550FSB but still on 4.1ghz i just lower the multiplier to 7.5 . thx you
The more cards in SLI, the more work your CPU needs to do for it to work. In your case i wonder if you wont have more performance with only 2 8800's then with 3.
550 fsb... that is very high... your motherboard would probably fail before getting there... don't know... but it you wouldn't see much of a performance gain anyway...
I'm not sure how much more can it be overclocked, so you should get a new cpu preferably quad core... But if you got bucks, you can go all the way to the i7's but, that's quite a large upgrade and it'll cost you.
