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Soleron on 19 November 2010
disolitude said:
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3 screen gaming...

I don't need it yet, but I figure a year from now GTX470s will be 100-150 bucks used and 200 new. Might as well, if it will be beneficial. Crysis and Metro 2033 already run somewhat choppy when completely maxed out at 5160x1080 resolution...

I don't think any card maxes out PCIe 2.0 8x yet. There will still be significant benefit to a third card.

A year from now though youll probably be able to buy a single 28nm Eyefinity card that does 3 screens as fast as 3 GTX470s (or whatever Nvidia has when they catch up on multi-screen one card).



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disolitude on 19 November 2010
Soleron said:
disolitude said:
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3 screen gaming...

I don't need it yet, but I figure a year from now GTX470s will be 100-150 bucks used and 200 new. Might as well, if it will be beneficial. Crysis and Metro 2033 already run somewhat choppy when completely maxed out at 5160x1080 resolution...

I don't think any card maxes out PCIe 2.0 8x yet. There will still be significant benefit to a third card.

A year from now though youll probably be able to buy a single 28nm Eyefinity card that does 3 screens as fast as 3 GTX470s (or whatever Nvidia has when they catch up on multi-screen one card).

Thanks! I could never get a clear answer on this.

Yeah thats always the dilema...Sell your gear and use the money to upgrade to better gear or keep your gear and upgrade.

If ATI or Nvidia indeed have a single card which beats tri GTX470s and costs similar to a new GTX470 after selling my existing ones, I'll gladly sell mine and upgrade.



Soleron on 19 November 2010
disolitude said:
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Thanks! I could never get a clear answer on this.

Yeah thats always the dilema...Sell your gear and use the money to upgrade to better gear or keep your gear and upgrade.

If ATI or Nvidia indeed have a single card which beats tri GTX470s and costs similar to a new GTX470 after selling my existing ones, I'll gladly sell mine and upgrade.


Evidence:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/pcie-geforce-gtx-480-x16-x8-x4,2696-16.html

GTX 480 SLI on PCIe 2.0 8x has 97.7% of the performance of two cards at 16x.

I like your plan.



Squilliam on 22 November 2010

Are you also going to count the games which don't scale with SLI?



Tease.

.jayderyu on 22 November 2010

GPU processing graphics technology rocks. Just a little research goes a long way. This has been in development for some time and some modern computer graphics card's are already capable. My wife GPU is able and mine is not. Only 4 months difference and these are GPU bought some time last year.

http://www.khronos.org/opencl/
http://www.nvidia.com/object/what_is_cuda_new.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEWGTpsFtt8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1sN1ELJfNo



Squilliam: On Vgcharts its a commonly accepted practice to twist the bounds of plausibility in order to support your argument or agenda so I think its pretty cool that this gives me the precedent to say whatever I damn well please.

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iasta on 22 November 2010

Also some supercomputer now use CPU/GPU for the calculation and are not only reliant on CPU only (as chinese Tianhe 1A).



But we must first concentrate ourselves on the way to entertain people, for video games to live. Else, it's a world where sales representative will win, which has as effect to kill creativity. I want to say to the creators all around the world:"Courage, Dare!". Shigeru Miyamoto.