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shaft wrote:

YourGrandpa wrote:660ti...lol poor ppl.

I know right. I bought the 1st 660ti about a year ago when my video card died in my old PC. I Figured I'd get a decent card to hold me over until I built my next rig when I found a killer deal on this 3 gig card. Well I decided to build my new PC soon than expected. So I just bought a matching card instead of a newer one. Now I've got 6 gigs of video ram.

GONNAFISTYA wrote:That IS a nice racing stripe on his PSU, though. Yellow of course.

I've had that Antec PSU for 3 or 4 years. Solid unit. You couldn't see the stripes in my old case because it was mounted in the top. But I didn't paint this one.

shaft wrote: yeah...was ez. won $500 worth of stuff just for uploading some old cellphone pics I took while I was building it.

http://www.cooledpc.com/build/265

Nice rig. I made a mistake going with the mid tower. I really should have went with a bigger case. Everything just barely fit. I had to put the radiator fan on the outside of the case. But the smaller tower is less obtrusive and it runs just fine.

YourGrandpa wrote: Now I've got 6 gigs of video ram.

doesn't work that way..you have 3gb

idk why you went waaaaay overkill on ram and then bought budget video card

redneck didn't know that vram doesn't stack

shaft wrote: doesn't work that way..you have 3gb

idk why you went waaaaay overkill on ram and then bought budget video card

Well it didn't go quite like that. I bought a "budget" card to hold me over until the next build. My next build happened sooner than expected. So I decided to go SLI instead of with a single card. I figured adding a second GPU couldn't be a bad thing. Especially since the 660ti I have performed pretty well.

I think it'll be awhile before my system is truly stressed by the available software.

Everything that's wrong with gaming culture is the dumb consumers wanting stupid mouthbreating things like better graphics and believable animations!

on a side note, check out this pc's awesome realtime rendering capabilities

oh u mad?

GONNAFISTYA wrote:Any one of you fucks would be drolling over this machine if is was sitting on your desk, humming away and ready to play whatever game you wanted. Well....everyone except ToxicBug, who already owns a beast similar to this.

Thanks

I was semi surprised to find out that there are actually quite many people who have very powerful setups, I'm only #46 globally.

Pfft. #46...globally.

ToxicBug wrote:.......... I'm only #46 globally

Nice ToxicBug

#46 globally, jesus...

lol, that's pretty hard core

ToxicBug wrote:

GONNAFISTYA wrote:Any one of you fucks would be drolling over this machine if is was sitting on your desk, humming away and ready to play whatever game you wanted. Well....everyone except ToxicBug, who already owns a beast similar to this.

Thanks

I was semi surprised to find out that there are actually quite many people who have very powerful setups, I'm only #46 globally.

Nice!

The owner of those 780s I posted has 11777 putting him at #28 on the list but the score isn't on that list.

What a waste, the guy who holds the #1 spot on the Cloud Gate score has played 2 hrs in the past 2 weeks. The most recent games played are Walking Dead, CS:GO, and Rainbow Six Vegas. Dafuq?

probably playing Battlefield like a real man...

ToxicBug wrote:
I was semi surprised to find out that there are actually quite many people who have very powerful setups, I'm only #46 globally.

Don't worry you still probably hold #1 for most expensive rig on least expensive table.

Jesus christ. Friend overclocked some more and got up to 12553, #19.

SoM wrote:redneck didn't know that vram doesn't stack

If you can't combine the vram what's the point in having it? Can the extra vram that extra cards gives only be used for extra monitors? What a stupid design decision for vram to not stack.

DTS wrote:

SoM wrote:redneck didn't know that vram doesn't stack

If you can't combine the vram what's the point in having it? Can the extra vram that extra cards gives only be used for extra monitors? What a stupid design decision for vram to not stack.

When the cards run in SLI the VRAM is still used by each of the GPUs, so it can't stack.

You may notice that cards with 6GB exist today. A single card is not powerful enough to run a game and use anywhere close to 6GB, but if you put four of them in SLI and play at Surround resolutions, the 6GB is quite useful.

I've seen usage around 3-4GB in some games maxed out at 8064x1440 with AA. Using SGSSAA in older games also requires quite a bit of VRAM and GPU power.

yes, each card has it's own vram, the only benefit of running SLI would give you a bigger buffer and higher bandwidth.

@ToxicBug & SoM:

I don't fully understand what you two said, why can't vram stack. So if I run a higher res, having more than one card won't help unless it's run across more than one monitor?

The monitor I want is 21:9 with res of 2560x1080. If I get more than one card to run that, will the extra vram just go to waste?

DTS wrote:@ToxicBug & SoM:

I don't fully understand what you two said, why can't vram stack. So if I run a higher res, having more than one card won't help unless it's run across more than one monitor?

The monitor I want is 21:9 with res of 2560x1080. If I get more than one card to run that, will the extra vram just go to waste?

You should look at the GPU and VRAM on each card as a single unit. The GPU needs access to a frame buffer in order to do calculations.

It's the same thing as using two cars instead of one in order to pull a trailer. Each car still needs its own tank of gas.

SoM wrote:read this

Thanks.