Yeah no doubt it's had a great innings. Feels ready for the next gen now though, in terms of consoles
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superdelphinus 6,177 posts
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Registered 11 years agoConsoles are definitely holding everything back, but the coming generation is going to see so many developers go under that we might as well go back to rubbing sticks together for fun.+1 / Like / Tweet this post
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RobTheBuilder wrote:
That's interesting. I have 3000 TNT2's hooked up in a mile long sli chain that gives me 61fps in Crysis 2.
Genuinely can't take people who bother with sli/xfire seriously. Some folk actually use sli 680s on a 1920x1200 single display. -_-
Micro-stuttering is a motherfucker and renders sli ect pointless unless you're a bit of a cretin.
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Tiiti 464 posts
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Registered 9 years agoI'm in favour of the sli set up. Recently bought an additional 580 for sli, and went for 3x 24" dell ips screens for 5760x1200 gaming.
Every single game I have thrown at these 2 cards have doubled in fps on one monitor. Most games run full whack on three aside from your bf3 and metro. Guild Wars 2 (although more CPU bound) runs and looks amazing across all three at 60fps vsynced at full settings.
Edit: was in a rush and forgot to add that I have seen none of this apparent stutter problem out of around 15 games I have tried. These are of ssd cards though so maybe a link with sli and hdd causes it I dunno.
Edited by Tiiti at 20:07:18 18-09-2012Father. Husband. Gamer.
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RobTheBuilder 5,765 posts
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superdelphinus 6,177 posts
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Pinky_Floyd 2,359 posts
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Registered 4 years agooi wrote:
I use 2 x gtx 670 on a 120hz 1080p display. I don't get any microstuttering at all. BF3, Witcher 2 , Metro and Sleeping Dogs eat all that GPU power for breakfast.RobTheBuilder wrote:
That's interesting. I have 3000 TNT2's hooked up in a mile long sli chain that gives me 61fps in Crysis 2.
Genuinely can't take people who bother with sli/xfire seriously. Some folk actually use sli 680s on a 1920x1200 single display. -_-
Micro-stuttering is a motherfucker and renders sli ect pointless unless you're a bit of a cretin.
/bitchy
Seriously, no microstuttering. None. Almost unbelievable, but I could be so cretinous I am unable to notice it, as by the time my brain processes the information, I'm already thinking of fluffy bunnies and OH CRAP WHAT IS THAT GIANT BALL OF FIRE IN THE SKY?? -
Pinky_Floyd 2,359 posts
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Registered 4 years agosuperdelphinus wrote:
Frames will usually drop when the graphics come under strain. Microstutter feels like very short pauses in the game for no apparent reason. Almost imperceptible but noticeable enough to really irritate if it happens often.
What exactly is micro stuttering and how do you differentiate it from dropped frames?
Its mostly been eliminated on newer cards and drivers though, so I wouldnt worry overly.
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Pinky_Floyd 2,359 posts
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Registered 4 years agoTo balance out my own views, the main irritations and disadvantages as far as I am concerned are heat and noise.
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Maturin 1,674 posts
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Registered 4 years agoMy four year old PC originally had 2x8800GT cards running in SLI. Had no problems with stuttering and at the time was cheaper than a more powerful single card. Was very happy with the performance vs cost at the time.
Since then the machine has had both cards replaced with a single GTX460 when hat was a cheap but worthwhile upgrade. But the whole Q6600-based computer is a bit long in the tooth now and I'm going to get an Ivy Bridge based machine in November.
This time just the one card - a GTX670, but I'll put a decent enough PSU in it to cope with adding another 670 when they are cheap as chips. As I said, never had any problems running SLI.Pre-childish ragequit username - Harry
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TurboBailey 681 posts
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Registered 7 years agoAnother one is favour of SLI here. Recently upgraded to 2x GTX 570. Framerates have gone through the roof. I can actually play Batman Arkham city on DX11 Ultra now, Battlefield 3 is fantastic and silky smooth.
Regarding Micro-stutter - it a very rare anomaly that Ive only seen occasionally. Its no worse than a drop of frame rates i was getting on a Single GTX 570 in some games. -
Pinky_Floyd wrote:
If you genuinely don't get any micro-stuttering then obviously that's a good thing. It's possible you just don't notice it or perhaps Nvidia has some voodoo magic going on. Certainly AMD cards still suffer from the problem.oi wrote:
I use 2 x gtx 670 on a 120hz 1080p display. I don't get any microstuttering at all. BF3, Witcher 2 , Metro and Sleeping Dogs eat all that GPU power for breakfast.RobTheBuilder wrote:
That's interesting. I have 3000 TNT2's hooked up in a mile long sli chain that gives me 61fps in Crysis 2.
Genuinely can't take people who bother with sli/xfire seriously. Some folk actually use sli 680s on a 1920x1200 single display. -_-
Micro-stuttering is a motherfucker and renders sli ect pointless unless you're a bit of a cretin.
/bitchy
Seriously, no microstuttering. None. Almost unbelievable, but I could be so cretinous I am unable to notice it, as by the time my brain processes the information, I'm already thinking of fluffy bunnies and OH CRAP WHAT IS THAT GIANT BALL OF FIRE IN THE SKY?? -
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