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Old 01-15-2009, 01:01 PM   #31 (permalink)
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Eeeww! Outdated technology!



Yeah, if you wanted. Or you can have two monitors, both using, both video cards.
What do you mean old technology? what card is that?
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Old 01-15-2009, 02:39 PM   #32 (permalink)
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8800 Ultra I think
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Old 01-15-2009, 06:39 PM   #33 (permalink)
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fitseries3 at techpowerup successfully quad Crossfired 4870x2s and used a GTX 260 for Physx.



This post describes how to do it.
how do the 4870X2 breathe?


Also, what works better, GTX 260 SLI or 4870 CF
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Old 01-15-2009, 06:58 PM   #34 (permalink)
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Also, what works better, GTX 260 SLI or 4870 CF
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Yeah, that's all he does is bench.

Thats not much of a gain. I score 24xxx at 3.8 with only my 2 cards, no physx card.
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Thats not much of a gain. I score 24xxx at 3.8 with only my 2 cards, no physx card.
From what I've seen, Physx can give you a 2 to 3K increase in your score. I posted it mostly cuz I though it was cool that he successfully enabled 5 GPUs...it took some work but he got it running.
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Pretty informative thread, sticky worthy I'd say.
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Pretty informative thread, sticky worthy I'd say.
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maybe but i would still swap my 8800 GT's for a couple

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8800 Ultra I think
yup, they are the 8800 Ultra's
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maybe but i would still swap my 8800 GT's for a couple
Yeah... true! lol e-penis!
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