(HD) EVGA 4-Way SLi Classified Crysis Benchmark

[Monkey_Grill]

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[Schlup]

That's pretty impressive!

[CoCoCountyKiller]

that is amazing with 4 sli cards

co.co

[Schlup]

You'd have thought he would have used GTX 295's though, little bit disappointing.

[tehfunk101]

You'd have thought he would have used GTX 295's though, little bit disappointing.

8 gpu's sounds like a mess!

i wonder what kind of psu he was using

[Schlup]

He had two 1300W power supplies.

[Monkey_Grill]

You can't run 4 295s together. Only 2 at a time.

[Schlup]

That is untrue, with this motherboard you can have (4) 295s together in Octa-SLI!

[Monkey_Grill]

False. 295's only have one bridge connect, unlike the 285s or 9800GTX+ that have 2 for 3-way or 4-way sli.

[Schlup]

Hello McFly?  The 4-way SLI bridge connection comes with the motherboard, you'd know that if you had SLI.

[Monkey_Grill]

The 4-way bridge can't fit on a 295! A 295 only has one bridge slot! Duh!

[Schlup]

The physical card size of the 285 and the 295 are the same, futhermore the SLI slot on both the cards is in exactly the same place.  The bridge comes with the motherboard, so how do you figure the 295 wouldn't work.  Please note that the only POSSIBLE correct answer here is a driver limitation on the 295.  Please do your research next time before you try and have a technical discussion with me.

[Monkey_Grill]

I believe the picture attached proves my point.

And to add... If 4 295s were possible I think Trubritar would of made a video of it.

[Schlup]

Ok, apparently the 295 has a different kind of SLI connector on it.  Due to the fact that the GTX 295 is a dual-GPU video card (meaning that there are two Graphics Processing Units crammed into a single video card), having two GTX 295's in one computer would be considered Quad-SLI, since there are now a total of four GPU's running in one computer at once. This being said, you cannot use three GTX 295's in one computer because Nvidia nor ATI support six-way GPU rendering for video games (but may sometime in the future). This is made apparent by the fact that the GTX 295 has only a single SLI connector slot on the top of the card, where-as cards that are capable of running Triple-SLI have two SLI connector slots (such as the GTX 260/280/285, 9800GTX+, etc).

Left side: Tri-SLI Connector. Right side: Standard SLI Connector.

On the left, we have the SLI connector bridge used for equipping three video cards in SLI mode, where-as the SLI connector on the right side is used for a standard SLI mode for two video cards. To better understand this, Here is a picture of three GTX 280 video cards in SLI, which is using the larger SLI connector shown on the left. Here is a picture of two 9800 GX2 video cards in SLI; once again, keep in mind that, despite the fact that there are two physical video cards in SLI, this is known as Quad-SLI because the 9800 GX2 (like the GTX 295) is a special video card that uses two GPU's in a single video card. We probably won't see any six-way SLI for a few years since video games aren't optimized well enough to use more than two or three video cards, let alone six.

To answer your original question, two GTX 295's is sufficient enough to run Crysis on Enthusiast settings @ 1920 x 1200 with about 60 frames per second average, although it would be wise to overclock the CPU mentioned (the Intel Core i7 920 CPU) so you do not bottleneck (hold back the power) of the two GTX 295's being used. However, due to the nature of dual-GPU video cards, the GTX 295 cannot take anti-aliasing worth a "censored"; adding anti-aliasing to a game like Crysis would completely destroy a GTX 295 where-as it'll only hinder a single GPU video card, such as the GTX 280, only marginally.

To wrap things up here, to the other poster above me, please show more respect towards other members. Laughing over another person's simple mistake doesn't make you the better person--it only makes you more arrogant.