SLI & Crossfire in Same PC!
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2014-05-07
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1,277 words · ~6 min read
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for the ultimate no compromises compact gaming pc look no further than the
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obsidian series 250d from Corsair click now to learn more shopping for a
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graphics card is tough AMD has all kinds of technologies like crossfire true
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audio mantel great opencl performance
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and hd 3d while NVIDIA has sli g-sync 3d
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vision cuda physx and game stream and no matter how much you spend on your
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computer you can't have all of these things at the same time
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or can you this is it the ultimate
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no compromises gaming machine the name davidia titation 3000 ultra xt platinum
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edition it's got a core i7 processor 16 gigs of dominator memory and
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most importantly two gtx 780 ti is an
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sli and two Radeon r9 290 x's in
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crossfire simply choose which graphics card vendor
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you want powering the system at any given time fire up your game
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and enjoy all the exclusive technologies from both sides on one computer
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truthfully guys this is not a joke here are some far cry 3 benchmarks at 2560 by
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1440 very high preset and this hulking beast of a system can be yours for the
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value price of only five thousand dollars and you're sitting there asking
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yourself is he kidding or am i missing something here
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good question guys this video isn't intended to convince you to run out and
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put a handful of different graphics cards in your system to make sure that you're not missing out on anything that
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would be crazy and therein lies the true
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purpose of this video or the average gamer shopping for a graphics card is
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already hard enough graphics cards are major purchases so there's a lot of
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research to do on top of the price you have to consider performance in the
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games you play cooling and then you have to pick between a dozen different brands
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that are all available and now with the introduction of AMD's mantle API and
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NVIDIA g-sync technology it feels like on top of all of that gamers have to
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decide months or even years ahead of time
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how they want to experience their games rather than just if they want to
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experience them because you can only have one and you're going to be stuck
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with it until you replace it we've seen this before with physx but most people
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didn't notice or care because physx never saw widespread adoption and beyond
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franchises like batman and games like borderlands 2 the
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gameplay experience was never really affected much by its implementation
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right now is different though right now mantle and g-sync look like they may be
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widely supported and shoppers will have to choose at the time of purchase
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whether they want smooth paste frames with g-sync graphics uh with a decent
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graphics card and display or mantel's so
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far unparalleled ability to leverage multi-core cpus along with some tidy GPU
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performance improvements and they have to pick all of this without even knowing
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things like whether future titles they want to play will support mantle or
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whether or not g-sync monitors will be worth buying what the hardware guys are asking
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us to do is crazy if this is the
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solution for a gamer to have every experience each game developer intended
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then isn't it time for something to change and this doesn't even address
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individual games that will support cross vendor technologies like star citizen
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nothing i do can let me experience mantle and physx in that game when it
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comes out at the same time i will always be not quite getting the full experience
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now i'm not going to say who's wrong or right in fact i'd love to hear what you
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guys have to say as long as you can keep it civil about it in the comments below
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or in the discussion thread on linustechtips.com that you can find
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linked in the video description so you know let me know what you think
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because i really do want to know now with all of that said the titanium
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3000 here actually works really well in fact switching between crossfire and sli
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is as simple as hooking up the primary card for each of them to a single
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monitor with two different inputs so i'm using displayport and dvi
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then changing the primary display in the Windows display manager
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a reasonably modern monitor will auto detect when you switch the signal loss
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from one input and then pick up the new one at the same time i tried a couple of
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different monitors and games and the process actually worked really seamlessly to my surprise uh the NVIDIA
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driver doesn't like to do some things with the AMD one running in the
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background like switch between single card and sli which i had to do during my
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benchmarking but you can force close ccc.exe
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make whatever changes then relaunch the AMD control panel and they both run just
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fine at the same time for most things oh yeah and one last thing guys before
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everyone gets mad and points out that AMD has said they're planning to open
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mantle up to other vendors as a standard because i was talking about it as a
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proprietary thing don't worry i know however right now today for shoppers
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there's no guarantee they'll do it and there's certainly no guarantee that
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other GPU makers notably Intel and NVIDIA will use it so my point still
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stands gamer shopping now are making decisions based on faith and guesses
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rather than solid facts i mean it's console exclusives all over again and we
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see the direction that that's headed it's all about the games and it needs to
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be not about the hardware that people choose speaking of things that aren't
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