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Nice... yeah, I just ditched my 5870 for a pair of GTX470s and surround works so nicely so far. I am happy!

Ive been thinking of doing just that, but only having a air system concerns me a little with the talk of high heat. Especially running Sli.
Kind of butt sore from all the money I have soaked into a ATI eyefinity system and yet it sits in the garage. Getting 2X 470's is do-able. but I can just see myself needing to get water. and then spending even more. not sure I'm ready for that considering all the money I just threw away to ATI and there partners.

Please keep us Informed on the thermals.

[quote]Nice... yeah, I just ditched my 5870 for a pair of GTX470s and surround works so nicely so far. I am happy!

Getting 2X 470's is do-able. but I can just see myself needing to get water.

I have just finished ordering all the bits for W/C 2 x 480's and CPU on duel loops. approx $ = 1200 AUD with a few bits left over. But it could easily be done for under $1K.

Whats nice to, is that when you set the bezel up and adjust each side to suit, it creates a custom res for your desk top and adds it into all game res panels as well, so you just select that res and the game is bezel compensated for as well, Ive set mine up on my current sli 280's, selected the res in game and never gone back to the nVid control panel.... nice so far.

Please keep us Informed on the thermals.

Im running tri sli of GTX 480, on air, no problems at all, idle = +/- 45C, full load = +/- 78C, using MSI afterburner to set the fans - its really noisy, cant deny that, but no big deal since i play with headphones. :lol:

can you enable/disable surround on a per game basis ?

can you enable/disable surround on a per game basis ?

You have to access the NCP, and enable / disable surround, just like you can do with SLI.

[quote] Please keep us Informed on the thermals.

Im running tri sli of GTX 480, on air, no problems at all, idle = +/- 45C, full load = +/- 78C, using MSI afterburner to set the fans - its really noisy, cant deny that, but no big deal since i play with headphones. :lol:


Not bad. Those numbers are pretty decent.

ok so just a global way of doing it
hum I guess we might wait & see if Martin Korndörfer dig out a new parameter for this in nhancer :)

you play with closed circum-aural headphones I guess ?

ok so just a global way of doing it
hum I guess we might wait & see if Martin Korndörfer dig out a new parameter for this in nhancer :)

you play with closed circum-aural headphones I guess ?

Yes, its quite possible this can be added as a parameter in Nhancer, i play with a Psyko 5.1 headset (and ear cup windows closed hehe :twisted: ).

YESSSSS!!!! very nice review thales100!!! so its finally true!!!! true triple sli/surround scaling with 1x display per gpu!!

its been a long time coming, seeing 3x gpus in precision in synchronized load makes me happy =)

finally built my 12 core evga sr2 machine, slapping 2x more gtx470s for sli :cheers

thanks again for this review, i was dieing to know if precision reported true synchonized load being 1x display per gpu - i want no passthru whatsoever..


:bowdown thales100 :bowdown

YESSSSS!!!! very nice review thales100!!! so its finally true!!!! true triple sli/surround scaling with 1x display per gpu!!

Haha, thanks m8, yes its a great surround solution, tri sli is finally worthy, 1 display per gpu rules... :cheers