Nvidia GT280

[Flyby]

that's a great price! I'm now up in the air. GTX280 or ATi 4870. I guess the 280 will have the power reserve, but my head hurts again!
Flyby out

[Deovis]

From the very begining of Openglide, end of 90s, up to now(opengl 3.0) i always choose an Nvidia processor graphic card...and i must say that it never let me on the spot!
Personally i dont consider Ati cards...because i know, deep in my mind, that i'm an Nvidia Fundamentalist.
If you want to play a game or any graph program using OpenGL (i do recommand it!)Nvidia cards are the best.

An OpenGL Fan!!!

[WTE_Galway]

Well if you want to get really stupid do what these guys did ...


http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforc...e-review-test/


and SLI three of the 280 cards.

[Codex]

Just bought the 4870X2, no problems here.



Now where did I put my flak helmet?

[Thunderbolt56]

Forget the pictures, I don't watch my pc's guts when I'm chopping air at 15,000ft. Give us some benchies!

This isn't exactly apples-vs-apples, but some of the rhetoric regarding the king-of-the-hill title are relevent in this link. http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews.php?reviewid=609

With today's crop of GPU's and the cache+clockspeed of the latest CPUs, just about ANY GPU will provide fantastic IQ and framerates with most eye-candy settings in the upper range.

Isn't that all that really matters?

[Codex]

Originally Posted by Thunderbolt56

Forget the pictures, I don't watch my pc's guts when I'm chopping air at 15,000ft. Give us some benchies!

This isn't exactly apples-vs-apples, but some of the rhetoric regarding the king-of-the-hill title are relevent in this link. http://www.driverheaven.net/reviews.php?reviewid=609

With today's crop of GPU's and the cache+clockspeed of the latest CPUs, just about ANY GPU will provide fantastic IQ and framerates with most eye-candy settings in the upper range.

Isn't that all that really matters?

Will do, 12am here now, have to sleep 5am start. I'll get some done on Fri (AUS) time.

[Thunderbolt56]

I'd appreciate it codex. As far as SoW being "optimized" for dual GPU, I'd really doubt it. Dual GPU setups are within the reach of more people these days than ever before, but when you can simply install a single GTX260 or 280 and get better performance than 8800GT's in SLI, I see SLI/Crossfire as more of an enthusiast setup than mainstream. Add to that the potential quirks a dual-GPU rig may bring then it becomes more understandable why the dual-GPU segment is still less than 1%.

Dual GPU performance will always be directly dependent on manufacturer driver updates and not incorporating detailed support coding by game/sim developement teams.

[Flyby]

Originally Posted by Codex

Just bought the 4870X2, no problems here.



Now where did I put my flak helmet?

you mean no microstutters as the two GPUs interface? I read that is still an issue with dual GPU systems whether on the same card, in Crossfire or SLi. SO, more info please.
thanks,
Flyby out

[Codex]

Originally Posted by 99th_Flyby

you mean no microstutters as the two GPUs interface? I read that is still an issue with dual GPU systems whether on the same card, in Crossfire or SLi. SO, more info please.
thanks,
Flyby out

Well this is my first dual GPU card so I don't know alot about the stuttering. I have only just reinstalled everything last night and have to admit I haven't flown in the pit yet. I've just ran "Blackdeath" a number of times trying out different settings. Couple of things come to mind about this:

- Not everything is ready driver wise for the 4870X2. You have to use CAT 8.8 beta at this stage as 8.7 won't recognise the card.

- If this an issue with both SLI and Crossfire setups then I would put that down to IL-2, not the cards. You have to remember SLI and Crossfire was only a wet dream when the Pacific Fighters engine came out.

- SoW will (I hope) be optimised to take advantage of Dual GPU/CPU set ups. Which is what I'm really aiming for.

Before IL-2 I've been testing the card on STALKER, Crysis, Jerico and ETQW and I have found no problems at all.

The only problem I've come accross is ARMA but thats because it doesn't like VISTA 64 with 4GBRam

My system (nothing overclocked):
E8400
4GB DDR3 Corsiar 1333
GA-X48T-DQ6
PowerColor 4870X2 2GB
150GB WD Raptor
XF-i

[Flyby]

Originally Posted by Codex

Well this is my first dual GPU card so I don't know alot about the stuttering. I have only just reinstalled everything last night and have to admit I haven't flown in the pit yet. I've just ran "Blackdeath" a number of times trying out different settings. Couple of things come to mind about this:

- Not everything is ready driver wise for the 4870X2. You have to use CAT 8.8 beta at this stage as 8.7 won't recognise the card.

- If this an issue with both SLI and Crossfire setups then I would put that down to IL-2, not the cards. You have to remember SLI and Crossfire was only a wet dream when the Pacific Fighters engine came out.

- SoW will (I hope) be optimised to take advantage of Dual GPU/CPU set ups. Which is what I'm really aiming for.

Before IL-2 I've been testing the card on STALKER, Crysis, Jerico and ETQW and I have found no problems at all.

The only problem I've come accross is ARMA but thats because it doesn't like VISTA 64 with 4GBRam

My system (nothing overclocked):
E8400
4GB DDR3 Corsiar 1333
GA-X48T-DQ6
PowerColor 4870X2 2GB
150GB WD Raptor
XF-i

OK. I see here that you didn't mention your monitor. I bet it's a whopping 30-inch Dell! As for SOW or any sim being configured for dual GPUs, I suppose it's possible. I know SOW will be able to make use of at leat dual core cpus. That's been stated in these forums already. Also, generally speaking, Crossfire or SLi implementation is not on the particular sim itself but rather on the particluar mode (SLI r Crossfire). At least that's how I understand it. The dual-gpu thing with microstutters seems not to be limited to one mode either. Maybe microstutters is not an issue if both gpus are on the same card? One other little tidbit here: Voodoo (remember those cards?) used to own the SLi tech before it was bought by Nvidia. It was called scan line interface then, but Nvidia calls it something else now. People ran dual Voodoo cards in a galaxy long ago and far, far away.
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