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|  Posted: 2005-09-25 18:00
Sometimes me and my friend go into his work to publish some hardware results on the website (the hardware review he works for). And they had some spare stuff lying around. We asked if we could have it to mess around with.
I'm not sure of the exact hardware appart from the following...
Gigabyte 8N-SLi-QUAD Royal
4x Nvidia 7800 Ultra
870 Watt PSU
4GB OCZ Gold Edition RAM
I'll leave the rest up to the image.
We couldn't find a case to go with this, so we ran it open top. It managed to run for 2 hours before the PSU died.
[ This Message was edited by: BackSlash *Jack* on 2005-09-25 18:04 ]
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Fattierob
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| Posted: 2005-09-25 19:13
you need your own nuclear power plant for that.
and a bigger monitor.
contact me once you install unix on it, i'm going to host the internets.
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| Posted: 2005-09-25 19:19
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On 2005-09-25 19:13, Fattierob (x2 Pistolet Makarov) wrote:
you need your own nuclear power plant for that.
and a bigger monitor.
contact me once you install unix on it, i'm going to host the internets.
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Unix doesn't support Nvidia-SLI :'(
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Bobamelius
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| Posted: 2005-09-25 21:18
Ouch, 870-watt PSU and they still ate it?
What kinda framerates did you get? 
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| Posted: 2005-09-25 21:28
Dude, it should be a crime to run those on that monitor...
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Bigwolfe
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| Posted: 2005-09-25 21:42
You want to send me some of that stuff? I'll pay the shipping costs
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| Posted: 2005-09-26 01:35
you SLI-d 4 cards at once?
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| Posted: 2005-09-26 01:55
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On 2005-09-25 21:18, Bobamelius wrote:
Ouch, 870-watt PSU and they still ate it?
What kinda framerates did you get?
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500~ on HL2.
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| Posted: 2005-09-26 02:00
so did it fix the lag in ds?... since "there is no lag"
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| Posted: 2005-09-26 02:05
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On 2005-09-26 02:00, TeH KanaDIEn CoW TippIN MidGet wrote:
so did it fix the lag in ds?... since "there is no lag"
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We didn't test it on an internet connection, since some things were conking out due to low power.
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Diabo|ik
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| Posted: 2005-09-26 02:20
I'd try hooking up another PSU dedicated to supplying the power for the drives/fans and 2 graphics cards, splitting the power load enough for the main PSU to keep up. 2x 600 watts Enermax/better ( high amps rates on each rail ) PSUs oughta do the trick.
With or without a case it's pretty easy to do, I considered doing it once instead of upgrading my PSU for the Radeon 9800pro. And I tried it later on, with 2 low watts PSUs balancing the load as evenly as I could, it worked for 48 hours non-stop ( looping demos and benchmarks ) before I had to give back the PSU to a chummy. They were both 250 watts ( instead of a 400 watts ).
It's pretty easy to do, but you also need a separate "useless" mobo to start up the other power supply tho, unless you know of a way to fool the power supply into kicking in without a separate barebone mobo hooked up to it, I used such a setup back then to play music from an old 2x CD rom drive hooked up to my stereo and nothing but a barebone mobo, that's where I got the idea of "and all that extra power is just sitting there... waiting to be tapped ".
And I want to see extensive benchmarks on this, so we can compare later with ATI's solution... And yeah, all benchmarks at 1600*1200 HDR/LDR ( depending on the manufcaturer/game ) max AF and max AA. On the same cpu if possible.
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| Posted: 2005-09-26 03:52
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On 2005-09-26 02:20, Diabo|ik wrote:
I'd try hooking up another PSU dedicated to supplying the power for the drives/fans and 2 graphics cards, splitting the power load enough for the main PSU to keep up. 2x 600 watts Enermax/better ( high amps rates on each rail ) PSUs oughta do the trick.
With or without a case it's pretty easy to do, I considered doing it once instead of upgrading my PSU for the Radeon 9800pro. And I tried it later on, with 2 low watts PSUs balancing the load as evenly as I could, it worked for 48 hours non-stop ( looping demos and benchmarks ) before I had to give back the PSU to a chummy. They were both 250 watts ( instead of a 400 watts ).
It's pretty easy to do, but you also need a separate "useless" mobo to start up the other power supply tho, unless you know of a way to fool the power supply into kicking in without a separate barebone mobo hooked up to it, I used such a setup back then to play music from an old 2x CD rom drive hooked up to my stereo and nothing but a barebone mobo, that's where I got the idea of "and all that extra power is just sitting there... waiting to be tapped ".
And I want to see extensive benchmarks on this, so we can compare later with ATI's solution... And yeah, all benchmarks at 1600*1200 HDR/LDR ( depending on the manufcaturer/game ) max AF and max AA. On the same cpu if possible.
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I can't give you the benchmark results of the ATI cards. NDA. Sorry.
7800's ran at 1600x1200, max af and max aa, with hdr with 500 fps.
All I can, and will say, is the X1800's beat it noticably.
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Diabo|ik
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| Posted: 2005-09-26 10:48
That's all I wanted to know, thx.
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