As an update to my Triple SLI question...I was told to just take out the 3rd GTX 280, and put my sound card back in, the lanes available restricted to 16x 16x 4x would show no significant increase in a Triple SLI configuration. I have some curious results to report. Running Triple SLI, I moved the video cable from the middle GTX 280 card (which originally gave me a 3dmark Vantage score of P23509, GPU 20027) to the bottom video card (nearest the CPU) and got a significant increase (from P23509 to P29024, GPU from 20027 to 25466). Puzzlingly 3DMark 06 dropped from 187544 to 17724. Any idea why the increase in 3dmark Vantage score was so different simply by plugging the monitor into a different card with no other changes? And why the #3Mark 06 score dropped. Am I getting a real increase in performance as indicated by the 3dmark Vantage score?
XPS 730x 965 H2C liquid cooled Windows Vista SP2 64-bit Ultimate Intel X58 chipset CPU-Intel Core i7 965 extreme @ OC 3.85 MHz Dell CPU Liquid/TEC Cooling ATX Unit Triple nVidia GeForce GTX280 1024MB-SLI, no OC 6GB Multi-Channel DDR3 at 1866MHZ (3x2GB DIMM) running at 1700MHZ 9-9-9-24-C1, no OC (4)- 300GB WD 10,000 rpm Velociraptors-Raid 10 (4) - 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda 7200 drives in Sans Digital eSaTA tower Dual DVD Drives: 6x Blu-Ray Burner(BD/DVD/CD) + 16x DVD-ROM Creative X-FI Titanium sound card Creative Turtle Beach gaming headset Logitech Z 5500 5.1 speaker setup Power supply-1000 watt Auxillary Power Supply-Visiontek 450 powering one GTX 280 Dell Monitor HD-24" Samsung Syncmaster 2233RZ 120hz 3d ready 22' LCD monitor Nvidia Stereoscopic 3D
First of all, 3DMark06 is optimized for Windows XP so, why are you concerned with that score? 3DMarkVantage is the one that counts. For clarification, WHICH slots do you have your GTX280s installed in right now? I have my 285s in the top and bottom slots, leaving the middle slot empty. To answer your question about whether you're getting a real increase in performance or not, I think your 3DMarkVantage score says it all.
jaydd
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October 10th, 2009 23:00
As an update to my Triple SLI question...I was told to just take out the 3rd GTX 280, and put my sound card back in, the lanes available restricted to 16x 16x 4x would show no significant increase in a Triple SLI configuration. I have some curious results to report. Running Triple SLI, I moved the video cable from the middle GTX 280 card (which originally gave me a 3dmark Vantage score of P23509, GPU 20027) to the bottom video card (nearest the CPU) and got a significant increase (from P23509 to P29024, GPU from 20027 to 25466). Puzzlingly 3DMark 06 dropped from 187544 to 17724. Any idea why the increase in 3dmark Vantage score was so different simply by plugging the monitor into a different card with no other changes? And why the #3Mark 06 score dropped. Am I getting a real increase in performance as indicated by the 3dmark Vantage score?
XPS 730x 965 H2C liquid cooled
Windows Vista SP2 64-bit Ultimate
Intel X58 chipset
CPU-Intel Core i7 965 extreme @ OC 3.85 MHz
Dell CPU Liquid/TEC Cooling ATX Unit
Triple nVidia GeForce GTX280 1024MB-SLI, no OC
6GB Multi-Channel DDR3 at 1866MHZ (3x2GB DIMM) running at 1700MHZ 9-9-9-24-C1, no OC
(4)- 300GB WD 10,000 rpm Velociraptors-Raid 10
(4) - 1.5TB Seagate Barracuda 7200 drives in Sans Digital eSaTA tower
Dual DVD Drives: 6x Blu-Ray Burner(BD/DVD/CD) + 16x DVD-ROM
Creative X-FI Titanium sound card
Creative Turtle Beach gaming headset
Logitech Z 5500 5.1 speaker setup
Power supply-1000 watt
Auxillary Power Supply-Visiontek 450 powering one GTX 280
Dell Monitor HD-24"
Samsung Syncmaster 2233RZ 120hz 3d ready 22' LCD monitor
Nvidia Stereoscopic 3D
PH3N0M
650 Posts
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October 11th, 2009 07:00
First of all, 3DMark06 is optimized for Windows XP so, why are you concerned with that score? 3DMarkVantage is the one that counts. For clarification, WHICH slots do you have your GTX280s installed in right now? I have my 285s in the top and bottom slots, leaving the middle slot empty. To answer your question about whether you're getting a real increase in performance or not, I think your 3DMarkVantage score says it all.