Hardware & Technical I'm asking FDEV, please give some feedback, SLI GPU

[lysan]

Hi there,

I'm building a new PC mostly for ED, buuuut also for other games. I would like to know if SLI is going to be supported officially in ED, and what your recommendations would be for such a system.
Is there anything i should be considering when building a SLI system???

I'm sure you got some awesome nuclear powered monster builds in the skunkworks basement of FD HQ.

 

[Lucifera Danzig]

Hi there,

I'm building a new PC mostly for ED, buuuut also for other games. I would like to know if SLI is going to be supported officially in ED, and what your recommendations would be for such a system.
Is there anything i should be considering when building a SLI system???

I'm sure you got some awesome nuclear powered monster builds in the skunkworks basement of FD HQ.

Not a dev, but figure I'd mention I did a quick search of the forums, and it apparently does work, since there's mention of a bug caused by an Nvidia driver causing it to stop working during last year sometime. As to things to consider...air circulation around the two cards. You don't want to try to stuff this thing into too small a case and/or without good case fans, or it'll end up being a PC BBQ.

 

[Viper2kUK]

You have to make sure that both cards are identical - same model number, etc. and check the forums / support sites for the manufacturers as there could be information that'll help with SLI. Don't forget to check on your MoBo and BIOS to make sure you're getting the most out of both cards and resources.

Have plenty of RAM as well - if poss, max out your MoBo and of course keep everything cool.

I'd also go with keep everything on stock levels until you know your system is stable. Once all's well, you can then (if you so wish) have a go at overclocking (although I don't see a real need with this myself).

V2k.

 

[Shadowdancer]

It's hard to "officially" "support" SLI when nvidia just breaks it again three months later.

So… probably one of those things that just aren't worth spending time on.

 

[lysan]

You have to make sure that both cards are identical - same model number, etc. and check the forums / support sites for the manufacturers as there could be information that'll help with SLI. Don't forget to check on your MoBo and BIOS to make sure you're getting the most out of both cards and resources.

Have plenty of RAM as well - if poss, max out your MoBo and of course keep everything cool.

I'd also go with keep everything on stock levels until you know your system is stable. Once all's well, you can then (if you so wish) have a go at overclocking (although I don't see a real need with this myself).

V2k.

How much would you gain from it? let's say two 1080 cards?

 

[Lucifera Danzig]

It's hard to "officially" "support" SLI when nvidia just breaks it again three months later.

So… probably one of those things that just aren't worth spending time on.

To be fair, I have never tried SLI, so I don't know if it does or doesn't have a real benefit. I can only say my GTX 1080 (just the plain 1080, not even the 1080i) seems to handle my 34" 2560x1080 monitor and my 28" 1920x1080 monitor pretty smoothly, with ED on the 34" and other stuffs on the smaller one. Also it handles ED in VR on the Oculus rather nicely. Are there games that really need SLI to work well, or work at all?

 

[lysan]

Not a dev, but figure I'd mention I did a quick search of the forums, and it apparently does work, since there's mention of a bug caused by an Nvidia driver causing it to stop working during last year sometime. As to things to consider...air circulation around the two cards. You don't want to try to stuff this thing into too small a case and/or without good case fans, or it'll end up being a PC BBQ.

My 1080OC build already is, so this one is going to be under water

 

[Lucifera Danzig]

My 1080OC build already is, so this one is going to be under water

So instead of BBQ you're having the hot stew?[haha]