I also think the longhorn theme looks good.

I like the HW but another case - the CPU-Fan & the GPU's are a burner.
But without the SSD and a different case would be a bit more period correct (USB3?).
But anyway - nice rig!

ildonaldo wrote on 2020-09-08, 16:09:

I like the HW but another case - the CPU-Fan & the GPU's are a burner.
But without the SSD and a different case would be a bit more period correct (USB3?).
But anyway - nice rig!

I got 2 140mm fans in the front, and I can add 2 more 140mm's on the top, as for the usb 3 ports, I got a usb 3 to usb 2 adapter so I can use those with the usb 2 header on the board.

Great setup, also have a similar SLI late XP / Vista build on the go.

Do you plan to use the SLI AntiAliasing modes?

Used to use that a lot and I think with a driver tweak or by adding a quadro card (not to actually use, just to allow quadro driver installation alongside geforce) you can unlock 128x SLI AA on just two cards, which is a sight to behold.. Just don't try it on Crysis 🤣

Montaron wrote on 2020-09-09, 00:19:

Great setup, also have a similar SLI late XP / Vista build on the go.

Do you plan to use the SLI AntiAliasing modes?

Used to use that a lot and I think with a driver tweak or by adding a quadro card (not to actually use, just to allow quadro driver installation alongside geforce) you can unlock 128x SLI AA on just two cards, which is a sight to behold.. Just don't try it on Crysis 🤣

Thanks

I didn't even know that was a thing, going to look into that.

Montaron wrote on 2020-09-09, 00:19:

Great setup, also have a similar SLI late XP / Vista build on the go.

Do you plan to use the SLI AntiAliasing modes?

Used to use that a lot and I think with a driver tweak or by adding a quadro card (not to actually use, just to allow quadro driver installation alongside geforce) you can unlock 128x SLI AA on just two cards, which is a sight to behold.. Just don't try it on Crysis 🤣

I'm interested in this as well, Any more info before I go off googling as well

Bear with my memory it was some time ago.

I had SLI GTX 480s heating my room up.

From memory 2 cards can do 32xQ (2x16xQ) in SLI but different drivers will show different things, the Fermi series exposed more AA modes then the 200 series I think even though it's not a hardware limitation.

Here is a quote from the Quadro 6000 (Fermi) specsheet "NVIDIA SLI FSAA (Full Scene Anti Aliasing) technology drives unprecedented image quality with up to 128x FullScreen Anti-Aliasing, dramatically reducing visual aliasing artifacts. "

At the time I needed another video output and put in a third card a Quadro FX5600 (8800 Series) for more heat 🤣. After installing the drivers and surprisingly not seeing too many issues with a quadro and geforce driver set installed, I noticed more SLI modes available. I guess the drivers write to the same regkey for available modes.

Ah I knew it, someone did the same here: https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/d … pu-16xss-4xms-/

To achieve this without adding a quadro card two tools spring to mind: Nvinspector and Nvhancer.

I found this example https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/higher-anti-al … han-8x/81178/12 , not sure if you will see double SLI AA modes here as well.

Good old Nvidia is hiding more AA modes from Geforce drivers since the release of Maxwell, meanwhile Quadros remain the same.

Finally there are lesser equivalent modes for Firepros and maybe Crossfire 48xx series keen to try that out. When I get my skulltrail system backup I'll make a thread.

I never run AA, I can't stand the way it makes everything blurry, i'd much rather have jaggies, especially at higher resolutions.

Goddammit, one of the sata ports on this board got ripped off somehow.

So I'll probably have to replace this board.

Is it fixable or would you be able to use a sata card?

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2020-09-09, 21:49:

Is it fixable or would you be able to use a sata card?

Good news is the port still works.

I need to use some glue to glue a plastic piece back on.

Beautiful! I'm glad you were able to save the board.

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2020-09-09, 22:25:

Beautiful! I'm glad you were able to save the board.

Me too.

I think I'm going to switch this to a single 280. SLI was giving me weird flicking issues in 7 and changing the sli bridge didn't help.

Sli is a temperamental mistress. I remember having issues back in the day with my 7950gts and I tried again with 8600 gt's and it worked better but still had some odd behaviors

I tried 342.01 and seems to fix the flicking. Changing the psu soon as I need this for something else, also I used some electrical tape to hold the sata cable down so that port does work.

I found a DFI Lanparty X58 board with a i7 920. So that's going to replace this.

austinham wrote on 2020-09-11, 19:30:

mastergamma12 wrote on 2020-09-11, 18:46:

I found a DFI Lanparty X58 board with a i7 920. So that's going to replace this.

If I recall the some of the early DFI x58 boards lack the SLI cert, so you may have to mod the drivers a little to get it to work.

I'm switching out the 2 280's for a single 480 so not a big deal.

mastergamma12 wrote on 2020-09-11, 19:49:

austinham wrote on 2020-09-11, 19:30:

mastergamma12 wrote on 2020-09-11, 18:46:

I found a DFI Lanparty X58 board with a i7 920. So that's going to replace this.

If I recall the some of the early DFI x58 boards lack the SLI cert, so you may have to mod the drivers a little to get it to work.

I'm switching out the 2 280's for a single 480 so not a big deal.

OHHH, do you plan to do any cooking with that PC? haha, no jokcing aside I used to have dual 480s and wile they were hot, the hype was over rated.

austinham wrote on 2020-09-12, 01:44:

mastergamma12 wrote on 2020-09-11, 19:49:

austinham wrote on 2020-09-11, 19:30:

If I recall the some of the early DFI x58 boards lack the SLI cert, so you may have to mod the drivers a little to get it to work.

I'm switching out the 2 280's for a single 480 so not a big deal.

OHHH, do you plan to do any cooking with that PC? haha, no jokcing aside I used to have dual 480s and wile they were hot, the hype was over rated.

Oh they're definitely hot cards, but yeah.

If this board properly supports SLI, I might snag another one down the road, not anytime soon though.

Also if this board supports Westmere, I got a W3680 (literally a 980x, Even unlocked like a 980x and only 1 QPI link like a 980x), I might put it in here.