Ahhhhhhhhh! Nerdgasm!!!

[guskline]

Karlitos, your gpus are still incredibly fast!

 

[YBS1]

Karlitos, your gpus are still incredibly fast!

Yeah, four 290X's can put down some numbers. What's really funny is to think that level of firepower could be had for just a bit over a thousand bucks if a person was to have bought them during the brief firesale window when the 3xx series was on the horizon but inventory was still high. I believe I recall 290X Lightnings going for ~$279-299AR or so.

 

[Kenmitch]

Nice rig!

Nice scores!

 

[YBS1]

Turns out the Corsair HX1000 is dead, bad PSU jumper probably killed it right off the bat upon initial bootup attempt over a week ago. I found this out today when I got around to switching the Lepa back in and getting a different secondary PSU jumper (got an Add2PSU unit this time). I had the Corsair hooked up to the 2nd & 3rd 980Ti's, booted up, got into Windows and couldn't figure out why they weren't showing up in Windows. After all, this time the system had no issue booting, the cards lit up, seemed to be going fine (seems they get enough power from the pci-e to light up and show up in BIOS, but not to be considered functional). Didn't take long to figure out what was up, I pulled the Corsair and did the paperclip test---FAIL. It just doesn't end. lol

I guess I'll get around to ordering something to replace it, probably not necessary at this point with the Lepa back in there but that was the whole point of getting the pedestal with the psu cutout. Maybe one of those Seasonic SnowSilent models, they would look nice in there, shift the Lepa down to full GPU only duty. Certainly could get by no sweat on the 750W version if it wasn't powering any GPUs.

On the positive side I did get around to completely purging the loop of air today, I'd been living with it gurgling since initial fill. Nice to have the silence back.

 

[tential]

That sucks
Does Tri SLI and Quad CF actually scale in games? Now I'm thinking about this...

This is why I'm excited for Dual GPU AIO cooler cards. The ease of being able to get more gpus in a system if necessary.

 

[master_shake_]

Finally, I wasn't sure I was ever going to see these. Still can't play with 'em yet though, my SLI fittings won't be here until Wednesday. Oddly enough they came as bare cards, you had to attach the block/backplate, I figured for sure they would already be assembled.

BTW, does anyone have any clue what the highlighted push button is in pic 3? There wasn't any documentation included on it in the box, my first guess is probably a BIOS switch.

nope

btw that is a pretty rig/build you've got there.

 

[YBS1]

Game dependant, for the most part you're going to be fighting diminishing returns though. Three scale better than four, but not as well as just two. There are a few games from what I saw that will really take advantage of even four though.

 

[guskline]

YBS1, I'm running the single GTX980TI SC but at some point might want to go SLI or wait for Pascal.