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Old 08-22-2008, 05:49 PM
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hey guys heard of Hydra? supposed to be the new shape of multi-GPU scaling. check these links out. http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2328495,00.asp
http://techreport.com/articles.x/15367
things are looking up!
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Old 08-29-2008, 03:46 PM
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With ATI... install the latest Catalyst..... and follow Coesties setup guide ;o)

Well just my 2c
Where can I find this guide? While waiting for BOB (I wanna upgrade my PC when BOB or BlackShark is finished), I switched to an ATI 3850 AGP so it would be nice to find some more hints for Grafix...
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Old 08-29-2008, 05:33 PM
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MaD88, Try this http://www.angelfire.com/ultra/coastie0/ATICP.html

This is coasties ati guide, to my knowledge the most up to date so far? (Jan 06) don't know a lot about ati cards as up till now I have been exclusively an Nvidia guy, but good luck and i hope it helps you out.

BTW First ever poster here! Hello to all and sundry, some very interesting and helpful stuff here, glad to be aboard!
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Old 08-29-2008, 06:07 PM
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I've waffling about which card to buy but this link may have made up mind to either buy an ATI card now, or wait for the next generation Nvidia card, as the current Nvidia cards appear to be defective.

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquir...55nm-parts-bad
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Old 08-29-2008, 06:16 PM
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MaD88, Try this http://www.angelfire.com/ultra/coastie0/ATICP.html

This is coasties ati guide, to my knowledge the most up to date so far? (Jan 06) don't know a lot about ati cards as up till now I have been exclusively an Nvidia guy, but good luck and i hope it helps you out.

BTW First ever poster here! Hello to all and sundry, some very interesting and helpful stuff here, glad to be aboard!
Thanx for the link! As I stuck to AGP till the next Simgeneration is out to the market I had to change to Ati for a last upgrade for my PC. Nvidia did no upgrade since my last Gainward 7800 GS+
So this Aticard was the best what I could get for my AGP-Port.
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Old 08-30-2008, 06:36 AM
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Chivas there are many manufacturers of cards based on the Nvidia chips so there may be some products less reliable then others. What I can share is my personal experience.

Since many many years I have allways stuck with Asus mainboards with Intel chipset and CPU and Asus graphic cards with Nvidia chips and I never had a hardware problem. I did once experiment with Asus boards with ATI chip on one of my PC a few years ago and let them away for driver reasons that put me in trouble with some of the software I used but had no hardware problem either. I have five personal built pc's at any time in my home (for wife and kids) with the configuration as mentioned above so this make for a huge number of hours of operation over the years. I agree that all my components are top when I build the machine. Plenty of power supply, top fast memory and lots of it and top quality hard disks, and full towers with lots of space and excellent cooling. The machines are on the expensive side but I for sure had drivers or software problems more or less quick to solve, but the hardware itself has allways worked perfectly and been fully reliable. And these are machines running and I can tell you that the kids do put them through hard work.

So the Asus GTX280 I have since I bought is just running perfect and is put through lengthy periods of heavy load. I must admit the board runs hotter then I prefer but apart from that nothing to say.

For the record I own no stock neither from Asus nor Nvidia and this is not some form of advertising even if that may seem so, but I do recognize that they have with me a happy customer with their products.

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Old 08-30-2008, 11:48 AM
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Pretty Awesome setup you've mate ,

But to be honest squeezing a new graphic card to reach higher in IL2 won't really help, it's as simple as that the game ain't optimized for new GPU's.

There are graphic issues and there are FPS issues, but it's the game to blame more or less and not the cards.

Btw i am thinking of trying the new 4870X2, should be the best card on the market right now, since ATI released it a couple of weeks ago.
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Old 09-02-2008, 02:12 PM
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Ok... some benchmarks, I recall valuable help I got from PF_Costie a while back, I hope I’ve done it right. Please correct me if there is anything wrong with my method.

I’ve geared this setup to let IL-2 push the card as much as possible so all eye candy is handled by IL-2. I’ve turned off or minimised eye candy enhancements like AA / AF in the drivers, however I have set Cat AI to advanced.

My system

Intel E8400 @ 3.0 GHz (333MHz x 6)
4GB Corsair CM3X2G1333C9DHX (7-7-7-20, 1T, 1.5V @ 533Mhz)
Gigabyte X48T-DQ6 rev 01 (BIOS F4)
150GB WD Raptor – OS + Apps + Games
X-Fi Fatality
OCZ 1010Watt – Got plenty of Juice
Dell 21 Wide Screen 16:10 – 1680x1050x32 @ 60Hz DVI
VISTA Ultimate 64Bit – default background services

PowerColor 4870X2
GPU @ Stock Speed 750MHz
Memory @ Stock Speed 900MHz
2GB DDR5
Overclock that puppy to 4.0 and see those score skyrocket... its the CPU clock that's holding your rig back...
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