The Furious Angels
FA Discussion => General => Topic started by: Broin on December 07, 2006, 06:37:51 pm
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Hey I'm looking for a set of video cards that need to rock out the graphics of the game... My motherboard is a Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe... So.. any suggestions let me know
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Broin is looking for headaches and Broin is looking to give me headaches when his shit doesn't work. HAH
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Sorry double posting but this was made a while back and our bud Ratio made some interesting remarks on why not to use dual on MxO.
http://thefuriousangels.com/index.php?topic=2172
Granted this is old and drivers had issues but it is very possible all these issues exist.
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I'm thinking the two video cards will make the game run faster and the graphics better allowing me to do some better filming in game more FPS. I dont' want to drop a huge chunk of cash on them but am willing to spend some decent money so let me know
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The matrix online does not use any complicated shaders and AA and all the fancy lighting and smoke effects like new FPS games. Two video cards gains you very little if anything at all. If your going to play the newest and greatest FPS games sure the results will be awesome. But you'll run into a lot of problems with MxO, pretty much because of that lame ass 800x600 res. loading area. (read the post linked above ^^^)
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Well actualy I just checked the Nvidia site and Well MxO is now an official SLI supported game, http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone2_game.html
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when i purchased my new supercomputer recently the sales chap talked himself out of selling me 2 of the nvdia 7900gtx cards to me because the moniter I use simply did not warrant the dual power of the sli cards. I got one of the cards and some nice ram and processors etc and the game looks magnificent on highest settings. In any event I would report that 7900gtx not in sli configuration works very very well old chap.
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well you could buy 2 7900 gtx's or basically one 8800 gtx the one 8800gtx will basically beat any combonation of 2 graphics cards in SLI or come damn close. You could always get 2 of those :) and while youre at it get me another one hehe. Not to mention these are direct x 10 video cards meaning when vista comes out it will run games on dx10 for the ultimate picture quality.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150205
this site has some comparisons of the 8800gtx against SLI setups from ati and nvidia http://www.rage3d.com/reviews/video/nvidia8800/index.php?p=8 (Reminder that 8800gtx isn't in SLI its just one card against 2 :) )
I just thought this might be helpful if you thought about getting 2 cards that were 400 each when you can get just 1 card for 630 or so that in most cases will beat those other 2 cards not to mention the better quality from it. If the price is a bit too high and yoru determined to have 2 cards the 8800 GTS is more afordable to buy 2 of.
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The wonderful thing about SLI is that you can specify whether or not you are rendering with both video cards or not. If memory serves, you can even configure (within the drivers) which programs can use both video cards, and which programs should only use one. Interesting little tidbit I thought you'd like to know.
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The wonderful thing about SLI is that you can specify whether or not you are rendering with both video cards or not. If memory serves, you can even configure (within the drivers) which programs can use both video cards, and which programs should only use one. Interesting little tidbit I thought you'd like to know.
Yeah you can choose how the two video cards work, as in have one do the top half of the screen and vice versa or have them split up little squares or just have one video card working and the other one idle. But since MxO is one of the officially compat SLI games, Nvidia already has MxO configured in the drivers.
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Recent Broin Old Fart Quote: "What are all these weird .rar files? What am I supposed to do with them??"
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lol
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yeah RAR is not only a sound a dinosaur makes.
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Recent Broin Old Fart Quote: "What are all these weird .rar files? What am I supposed to do with them??"
Damn you whippersnappers.... LOL besides that's why I hang around you youngin's anyways. Okay so I'm lookin at gettin two 8800 gtx as the best things for me to do right now right?
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yes the 8800 gtx is the best graphics card available in quality and speed of course that could change in 2 months but you could also think about the 8800 gts its a little slower but still faster than the previous generations from ati and nvidia and saves you a bit of money but if you wanna be competative and beat me then i guess 2 8800 gtx's :( since i only have one... you son of a...... lol..... btw. there are several different models of the gtx well several manufacturers they are all about the same performance wise but the main difference is the look of it I got the xtx but you could go with bfg or leadtek or asus ect... if you search on newegg you can see them all.
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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814143075
over $600 each.... damn.
On the bright side, you can start your own division of Pixar!
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I thought they were $800. Musta came down for the holidays.
Probably need at least a 600watt power supply? Maybe 700watt, that might be much? Plus it takes 2, 6-pin ins each? Well I guess it does come with a splitter but still... thats a lot.
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500watt would do you fine.
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I smell uber pwnage graphics in FA videos in the future...
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nah lol the day they came out which is when i got mine it was 659 so yeah it went down but only 20 bucks or so and well if you have 2 of those you need 600 to 700 watts atleast.. each one uses near 300 watts when maxed out. I have a 700 watt gaming psu and yes each one has to have 2 power connections... you can get splitters if you dont have 4 power connections but not the best idea in the world.
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My ATI Radeon X1900XT takes one of those small connector deals, too. I use a 650W Power Supply, and it does the trick beautifully. Just for safety's sake, though, you may want to get one of the bigger ones (ie. a 700-800W) since it can screw up the card if it's not getting enough power. I recall that I didn't plug the small connector jobber in all the way when I first installed my Radeon and whenever I ran MxO my machine would beep and bitch at me, the graphics would be shot to hell, the frame rates sucked, etc.
So, yeah, if you're gonna be shouldering that much Graphics Processing Power you may want to make sure you have an excess of power. Better to have more than you need, than not enough.
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Just remember to have a processor that can handle the 8800gtx. I have seen benchmarks where the processor can bottleneck the gpx card, thus you don't really gain as much by upgrading.
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yeah the thing is pretty cpu dependent meaning the better cpu you have the better fps you will have which is true with any video card but its amplified with this one.