Some basic questions -- SLI vs Crossfire, SSD vs Sata (?)

[Sam DeathWalker]

I would just put the game on the SSD (espicially if its in raid), that way if there is a failure you just need to recopy the OS drive (I clone the whole OS drive with Arconics truehome every few weeks, if i get a virus or failure I just replace the os drive with the back up and I'm gtg in under 4 minutes).

Do not get duel video cards, just one good one. See my sig for recomended system and parts.

[Sajuuk]

Do not get duel video cards, just one good one. See my sig for recomended system and parts.

Stop pimping your goddamn site.

As far as dual video cards go, I disagree (to an extent), if the graphics card/graphics performance of multiple clients is all that's keeping you back and your software used to multibox supports it, splitting rendering of game clients between GPUs can certainly boost performance, assuming the increases power/heat is worth it to you vs building another box, and assuming you can just pop another card in.

Note this solution does not use SLI/Crossfire. You're using two graphics cards independent of each other, not in tandem.

[Sam DeathWalker]

Well if you use 2 monitors you might consider two video cards, again as stated not in SLI or Crossfire. But still I would go with one really good one.

Not sure if you can use 2 video cards if you only have one monitor.

My site has good information on it, as far as recommened multibox systems, (did you see my new post on a 48G no texture lag system?) so I refer people there like I would refer them to Intel's site or Tomshardware. Plus there is a really good write up as to the Killer NIC and how to set your nvida video card to maximize for wow (from the nvidia site).

[Sajuuk]

Well if you use 2 monitors you might consider two video cards, again as stated not in SLI or Crossfire. But still I would go with one really good one.

Not sure if you can use 2 video cards if you only have one monitor.

My site has good information on it, as far as recommened multibox systems, (did you see my new post on a 48G no texture lag system?) so I refer people there like I would refer them to Intel's site or Tomshardware. Plus there is a really good write up as to the Killer NIC and how to set your nvida video card to maximize for wow (from the nvidia site).

You don't need multiple monitors to use multiple video cards, since we'd be using the GPUs for rendering on the main screen anyways.

As far as your site, I don't want to register, nor do I have to look at you. For a recommended system, go i7/newest gen CPU/mobo/Loads of ram, newest video card, and a couple of SSDs. Your site is NOT unique.

With gigabit LAN in onboard chipsets unless that little bit of latency REALLY matters to you a Killer NIC is not needed. At all. If anything the TCP ACK (I think it is) registry tweak will do more for you.

It's also annoying since you just say: "Check out my site in sig" versus linking to a relevant thread within your site.

[Sam DeathWalker]

You don't need multiple monitors to use multiple video cards, since we'd be using the GPUs for rendering on the main screen anyways.

Speaking of links, if you have one where I can read up on it, I'm not up on using two gpu's onto one monitor and getting better results hows that work exactly, I have a ton of extra video cards and if two (not in sli or crossfire) can render different parts of the screen or something that would be nice (do you need to run tiled to do that or can you do it full screen)?

Or does one do one part of the rendering and the other gpu a different part like two gpus one would do physx and the other the other stuffs, if wow supported physx.

Seems you would have to run textures into both video card rams; would that not affect performace. Well I don't know I just use one monitor and one gpu per computer and play in full screen and alt tab between them.

Ya killer nic is usless but I spend 4000 words to say the same thing as to why it is.

[Sajuuk]

Speaking of links, if you have one where I can read up on it, I'm not up on using two gpu's onto one monitor and getting better results hows that work exactly, I have a ton of extra video cards and if two (not in sli or crossfire) can render different parts of the screen or something that would be nice (do you need to run tiled to do that or can you do it full screen)? .

The tools we would be using are ISBoxer/Innerspace, and possibly a dummy plug. (making a dummy plug here: http://www.overclock.net/folding-hom...ml#post4538942 )

Now, I'm not at all sure if you'll actually need the dummy plug, but when using folding at home on extra GPUs/dual-GPU cards where you don't have extra monitors it would trick your card into thinking a monitor is attached. You might not need it, but if you can't defer rendering of other clients to isboxer/innerspace without it, try with and see what happens.

http://isboxer.com/index.php/compone...le-video-cards

While that says you must use monitors, I'm sure in innerspace you can still make new profiles for games and assign them to different GPU cores. I'd got into more detail now, but you get the gist, right?

[Sam DeathWalker]

I see each gpu goes to a different monitor and deals with whatever clients you tell it to. Can't use two gpu with single client or with single monitor. And switching from main to slave (assuming on different video cards and monitors) isn't going to be as fast as people would like, even at same resolutions.

Still I guess for 5 boxers on a single cpu, one gpu/monitor for the main and one gpu/monitor for the 4 tiled slaves is optimal.