Wow. Now that's something to look into.Originally Posted by lynx
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Wow. Now that's something to look into.
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I like Asus's setup better if you can get either slot to 16x but I'm pretty sure that the DFI won't.
I can try rejumpering to see...maybe after I get home tonight.
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Please let us know the update on this, I would move my vid card to the 2nd slot, because my northbridge is running way to hot and I have no way to cool it down at this point.
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What motherboard do you have?
I can confirm that the DFI definitely does not support 16x on the second PCIe slot.
*aside...*
You all owe me cookies.
Rejumpering this board with the card and waterloop in place was a giant PITA. After all the hassle I could tell within the first scene that the framerate had dropped to practically nil- I couldn't stand to even finish the test, "Massive Overdraw" would have been painful to watch.
Then I had to rejumper to get back to normal.
Oatmeal chocolate chip, please.
Running at 8x I can see no real drop in performance (or bench scores) which pretty much confirms that most new games aren't even close to saturating the PCIe bus.
If nothing else, this exercise in agony has firmed up my decision to go with a single 7800 over 6800's in SLI.
The card itself is obviously more expensive, but I'll save the cost of the second waterblock (still waiting on hard info regarding the Stasis Thermal blocks, but I expect a price @ $125-150 apiece) and the loop will remain simple.
Now I'm on a mission to discover where DFI has hidden the sensor which reports "motherboard" temps as it reads way higher than I'd like to see.
Besides, it's weird to see the CPU running 7-10C lower than the motherboard.
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If it is anything like the Abit boards (and probably some others) it is probably measuring the temp of the PWM chip. These things are now typically running at or above the cpu temp when under load.
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THAT WAS MY COOKIE!
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I have the Lanparty NF4 SLi-DR, and the northbridge is covered up by my 7800GTX(long card) and can get quite hot when under load. If I put it in the second slot should it recognise it right away then, or do I have to change the bios or jumpers?
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Last edited by JunkBarMan; 10-30-2005 at 02:47 AM.
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You will have to rejumper the 6 blocks between the PCIe slots to "enable SLI".
This will enable the second slot ( which DFI cleverly labels "PCIe4") to run at 8x.
Insert card and you're done- no other special configuration.
Now you owe me a cookie.
Make sure that greedy bastard Lynx doesn't sweet talk you out of it.
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A couple of years ago I saw a computer some bloke had cobbled together and put in a pizza carton. For an OS he used some stripped down linux distro on a flash card. As far as I could tell it worked well.
Given the better capacity of those cards today, putting windows on one of them might be doable. Depends on how big a card you can get, and possibly on how much you can slim down XP, or whatever you want to use.
That Gigabyte ramdrive would prolly keep better in the long run, 'cos flash cards have a tendency of going bad on me.
Nice new sprocket, clocker.
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[QUOTE=SnnY]Everyone was sure the iRam was going to be the bee's knees, too bad Gigabyte is only making two thousand of 'em.
Apparently there has been a major redesign and the next gen will be ported into SATA, have 8 (maybe more!) DIMM slots and be bay mounted.
Sounds sweet, but vaporware usually does.
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