what GFX card you got in your PC ?
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Dobbo,
I've got the 6600GT set up in my Mesh SLi system too, though to be honest I find it prett disappointing. On Far Cry for instance, everything hss to be set to 'low'.
Do you know if there's any way I can set them up to perform better? It's almost as if the system just recognises one card, rather than both, even though the hardware manager says everything is cool.
PS Sorry to hijack post.
>> Edited by Shirkin on Monday 19th September 12:14
I've got the 6600GT set up in my Mesh SLi system too, though to be honest I find it prett disappointing. On Far Cry for instance, everything hss to be set to 'low'.
Do you know if there's any way I can set them up to perform better? It's almost as if the system just recognises one card, rather than both, even though the hardware manager says everything is cool.
PS Sorry to hijack post.
>> Edited by Shirkin on Monday 19th September 12:14
Shirkin said:What resolution are you running Far Cry at?
Dobbo,
I've got the 6600GT set up in my Mesh SLi system too, though to be honest I find it prett disappointing. On Far Cry for instance, everything hss to be set to 'low'.
Do you know if there's any way I can set them up to perform better? It's almost as if the system just recognises one card, rather than both, even though the hardware manager says everything is cool.
PS Sorry to hijack post.
>> Edited by Shirkin on Monday 19th September 12:14
I have an old Radeon 9800 Pro in my mildly oc'd Athlon and I can run Far Cry at 1280x1024 (monitor native res) at high (not highest). There is a very occasional slowdown on certain levels but generally it runs fine.
I can run HL2 on highest, whilst downloading in the background.
Shirkin, mine's a Mesh SLI system too, probably the same one. Certainly I don't need to run it at low res. I think I ran Half cry at 1600x1200 with almost everything turned up as high as it would go.
Sounds like something either software or hardware related isn't right on your system.
Best way I found to test my system was to download and install 3dmark03
Next, I went to the display configuration, and configured my system to run non-SLI - so that it only uses one GFX card - this requires a reboot.
Then ran 3dmark and noted the score. Then enabled SLI, reboot, and run 3dmark again.
I got just under double the 3dmark score with SLI enabled. If you don't see the same, somethings wrong.
Make sure you have the latest and greatest drivers from Nvidia would be my first advice. I was shocked to find that the only way a game will make the most out of SLI is if your drivers recognise the game, and preload the best settings. Could be your system isn't doing this.
Shirkin said:
By the way Dobbo, did you go for the Mesh R1 Xtreme?
Ps Sorry for the continued thread hijack.
Can't remember exactly what mine is called - not an R1 extreme though.
It's an Athlon Xp64 3800 with two 6600GTs - that's about all I can remember. I do know it flies albeit very very noisily thanks to all the fans in the case.
so if you wanted to buy a new card, what woul you have bought?
brand etc?
I see from a few sites that club 3d have a 7800GTX that beats the other brands 7800GTX (tested on kustompcs.co.uk).. .. .. .. does anyone know what club 3d are like? they seem to be very popular in europe?
>> Edited by DucatiGary on Monday 19th September 16:04
brand etc?
I see from a few sites that club 3d have a 7800GTX that beats the other brands 7800GTX (tested on kustompcs.co.uk).. .. .. .. does anyone know what club 3d are like? they seem to be very popular in europe?
>> Edited by DucatiGary on Monday 19th September 16:04
When you talk about one 7800GTX beating another, I think the likelyhood of there being any noticable difference when playing games is tiny.
I'd just buy whichever one looked best value for money - if you go SLI you can then buy another in a years time when price is right down, and give your system a big performance boost for very little outlay.
I'd just buy whichever one looked best value for money - if you go SLI you can then buy another in a years time when price is right down, and give your system a big performance boost for very little outlay.
DucatiGary said:
all 7800GTX are SLi though?
I just read a review comparing them all and seen that the exotic little known brand came out top.. .. ..
It's the motherboard that needs to be SLI - not the card. Any current Nvidia card is SLI capable, as long as your motherboard has two graphics card slots.
I have a 6800GT in my PC, which I'm pretty pleased with
Far Cry runs pretty quickly on 'high', although I occasionally get black shading under vehicles. I'm guessing this may be a driver issue - does anyone have the link I need to get the most recent drivers?
The XFX (card manufacturers) website's most recent drivers are dated October 2004 - shirley can't be the most recent???
Far Cry runs pretty quickly on 'high', although I occasionally get black shading under vehicles. I'm guessing this may be a driver issue - does anyone have the link I need to get the most recent drivers?
The XFX (card manufacturers) website's most recent drivers are dated October 2004 - shirley can't be the most recent???
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