New 512MB cards in SLI.....

[DanOfEarth]

Does anybody know if you can run two of the new XTX 7800 512MB cards in SLI mode, particularly on an ASUS8N32 Deluxe board? I'm installing an FX57. Can't make heads or tails of the info.....

[lil_jimmy_norton]

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Yes you can. Any SLI capable board will work.

[Sir. MatDef]

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Yes you can, but the processor will be a huge bottleneck. You can't really do much about that, though.

[Blak_Phoenix]

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Lol.. your vid cards will be held back for a while, untill AMD bring out dual FX-57 equiv's.. lol.. but when they do.. wow... D :laugh:

[Eddy01741]

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Really, the GPU is actually bottlenecking a CPU. Our cpu's are held back by GPU's in games otherwords: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu...u-games_3.html
Look, when put for pure speed, the GPU is not bottlenecking the CPU and therefore the CPU's can make the FPS much better. But put on high settings, and aa and af, the GPU starts to bog the CPU down. THe CPU is actually the most important part of a computer for gaming. It's just GPU tech can't keep up, so therefore, at the time teh GPU is the most important.

[Blak_Phoenix]

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But surely with 2 7800 512 mb card the cpu cant hold up.... ??? i mean i kno wthat the games do not fully utalise the GPU's but if you ran a test on that, the CPU would fall behind first..

[Flanker]

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But surely with 2 7800 512 mb card the cpu cant hold up....

Ooh yes it can. If theres a bottleneck, it won't be the CPU.

[Blak_Phoenix]

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Ooh yes it can. If theres a bottleneck, it won't be the CPU.

Really??? Wow.. well i guess i really underestimated the CPU's then lol.

[Sir. MatDef]

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Ooh yes it can. If theres a bottleneck, it won't be the CPU.

Not necesarily, in fact I'm willing to bet that with 2 gtx 512mb the cpu will be a bottleneck.

[imported_Wreck]

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Ooh yes it can. If theres a bottleneck, it won't be the CPU.

Yes with dual 7800's the CPU does become the bottleneck.

Really??? Wow.. well i guess i really underestimated the CPU's then lol.

No you estimated fine. Don't be misinformed.

[Eddy01741]

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Ooh yes it can. If theres a bottleneck, it won't be the CPU.

Yeah, this guy is right . The CPU will never be a bottleneck unless GPU tech just jumps like crazy. THe CPU is actually the most important part of the pc for gaming, and other applications like office applications. It's just for gaming, when playing on highest settings and what not, the GPU starts to bog down the CPU.