GTX 690 Quad SLI

[Elite2025]

Hey guys,

We have a system put together with 2 GTX 690s. If anyone wants to see benchmarks from a specific program/game let us know. Member elite PC design was able to get two of them from his company, thanks for the help man.

System:
• 3960X
• Asus Rampage IV Extreme
• Corsair Dominator GT Ram
• Temjin TJ11
• SR-1 560 radiator
• SR-120 radiator
• Swiftech Apogee HD cpu block
• Thermaltake 1475
• MCP35X2 pump
• Intel 520 SSD

 

[RussK1]

I didn't watch the second video and I apologize, I see that the Ultra Sharp is 2560x1600... makes me feel a little better. Now run benches in 3D...

 

[Elite2025]

I didn't watch the second video and I apologize, I see that the Ultra Sharp is 2560x1600... makes me feel a little better. Now run benches in 3D...

LOL, you got it

 

[Elite2025]

+1 @ russwood1488

5760 x 1080P should be included by default.
all that power and a single 1080P.?
2560 x 1600 should be minimum..
-------------
Fail

 

[RussK1]

LOL, you got it

The Unigine bench is confusing because it's 1920x1080... should redo it at 1600.

Nice machine by the way... worthy of envy.

 

[RussK1]

The heaven test was not on an easy resolution… the cards were powering an Elite PRO-70X5FD 70 inch led.

1920x1080 is still 1920x1080 whether it's 22" or 70" TV that costs $7,000. My opinion, 1080p for a computer monitor has no place over 24". Appropriate for mounting to a wall to watch some South Park but not playing BF3.

They don't give any info on pixel response time on the Elite Pro 70".

 

[AtotehZ]

The thread is a bit old but.. you just make the tests to show us the numbers right? I doubt your camera is able to display over 60hz, if even that(assuming you have 120hz monitors)

Oh yea, and Russk1 is absolutely right. The physical size of the monitor has nothing to do with the video card. What matters is if it's 2.07m pixels(1080p) it has to calculate the correct color for, or 4.10m pixels(1600p). The amount of pixels is just about doubled in the 2 tests.

 

[cgner]

Triple monitor 3D setup in 1080P. Metro 2033 on max 😀

 

[Awesomness03]

Im wondering how hot it gets because I ordered the same configuration except with a 3970x and more RAM.

 

[euphoria4949]

Hi Elite2025,

I'm not sure if you still follow this thread as it's nearly a year old now, but I would really appreciate it if you good try out Tomb Raider 2013, just at 1920x1080 with everything on ultimate including TressFX (special hair).

Because I currently have a single GTX 690 and it's brilliant, all games maxed out at 100+fps no problem. But I really, REALLY struggle to max out the new Tomb Raider and keep close to 120fps. In fact in some areas of the game my fps drops to 40! So I was seriously debating getting a second 690, especially as I have a 15% off voucher for a site I use very regularly, so I could get another one at a fair decent price.

Anyway, hope you get this and if you could test it I would be eternally grateful.
Thanks =)

 

[Antjel]

Hi Elite2025,

I'm not sure if you still follow this thread as it's nearly a year old now, but I would really appreciate it if you good try out Tomb Raider 2013, just at 1920x1080 with everything on ultimate including TressFX (special hair).

Because I currently have a single GTX 690 and it's brilliant, all games maxed out at 100+fps no problem. But I really, REALLY struggle to max out the new Tomb Raider and keep close to 120fps. In fact in some areas of the game my fps drops to 40! So I was seriously debating getting a second 690, especially as I have a 15% off voucher for a site I use very regularly, so I could get another one at a fair decent price.

Anyway, hope you get this and if you could test it I would be eternally grateful.
Thanks =)

Hi all,

In Regards to TR:
Tomb Raider 2013 doesn't scale to anything higher than dual SLI. TressFx turns into a flickering white light on her head whenever I go above dual SLI (Tri or Quad). I haven't found any good 3d settings for TR 2013 so surround vision is the best you can go IMHO.

For everyone else:
Saw this thread thought I would mention I have quad SLI but for most games have to play on a single 690gtx... Anytime I go quad sli I get crashes and framerates usually slower than a single 690gtx (multi gpu). I have been fooling around with tri sli and leaving the second gpu on the second 690gtx dedicated to Physx but even then I am not getting much gain over the single 690gtx. From what I have found elsewhere on the net no games support quad sli scaling so unless you are trying to break a benchmark record it's just not worth it. I definitely learned my lesson and will be selling my second 690gtx...or possible both and going with two Titans mwhuhaha.

But anyways thought I would get the word out so noone makes the same mistake I did.

Cheers,
Antjel

P.S. I have a 3960k, 16gig Corsair, 450gb SSD, 2x690gtx, everything including board watercooled and pushing 4 BenQ 2420T 24" monitors.

Trust me avoid anything above dual SLI or a single 690gtx (multi gpu). The drivers just don't support anything higher :-(

 

[bystander]

Hi Elite2025,

I'm not sure if you still follow this thread as it's nearly a year old now, but I would really appreciate it if you good try out Tomb Raider 2013, just at 1920x1080 with everything on ultimate including TressFX (special hair).

Because I currently have a single GTX 690 and it's brilliant, all games maxed out at 100+fps no problem. But I really, REALLY struggle to max out the new Tomb Raider and keep close to 120fps. In fact in some areas of the game my fps drops to 40! So I was seriously debating getting a second 690, especially as I have a 15% off voucher for a site I use very regularly, so I could get another one at a fair decent price.

Anyway, hope you get this and if you could test it I would be eternally grateful.
Thanks =)

From what I can tell, from my experience with 680 SLI, those 40 FPS drops are a CPU bottleneck, not a lack of GPU power.

 

[euphoria4949]

Hi Elite2025,

I'm not sure if you still follow this thread as it's nearly a year old now, but I would really appreciate it if you good try out Tomb Raider 2013, just at 1920x1080 with everything on ultimate including TressFX (special hair).

Because I currently have a single GTX 690 and it's brilliant, all games maxed out at 100+fps no problem. But I really, REALLY struggle to max out the new Tomb Raider and keep close to 120fps. In fact in some areas of the game my fps drops to 40! So I was seriously debating getting a second 690, especially as I have a 15% off voucher for a site I use very regularly, so I could get another one at a fair decent price.

Anyway, hope you get this and if you could test it I would be eternally grateful.
Thanks =)

Hi all,

In Regards to TR:
Tomb Raider 2013 doesn't scale to anything higher than dual SLI. TressFx turns into a flickering white light on her head whenever I go above dual SLI (Tri or Quad). I haven't found any good 3d settings for TR 2013 so surround vision is the best you can go IMHO.

For everyone else:
Saw this thread thought I would mention I have quad SLI but for most games have to play on a single 690gtx... Anytime I go quad sli I get crashes and framerates usually slower than a single 690gtx (multi gpu). I have been fooling around with tri sli and leaving the second gpu on the second 690gtx dedicated to Physx but even then I am not getting much gain over the single 690gtx. From what I have found elsewhere on the net no games support quad sli scaling so unless you are trying to break a benchmark record it's just not worth it. I definitely learned my lesson and will be selling my second 690gtx...or possible both and going with two Titans mwhuhaha.

But anyways thought I would get the word out so noone makes the same mistake I did.

Cheers,
Antjel

P.S. I have a 3960k, 16gig Corsair, 450gb SSD, 2x690gtx, everything including board watercooled and pushing 4 BenQ 2420T 24" monitors.

Trust me avoid anything above dual SLI or a single 690gtx (multi gpu). The drivers just don't support anything higher :-(

You Sir are a super star 😍 You have quite literally saved me nearly £1000 lol!

I've just emigrated to a different country where mid/high-end parts are hard and bloody expensive to get hold of, so I have to order parts from the UK and wait for a family member to be coming over for a holiday. Well, my nephew is coming over in 2 weeks, so I was actually going to order my second 690 in the next day or two lol. So.... man I owe you a drink! Thank you =)

 

[tintinbm]

I see no SLI connector are you running one card as phys-x?? I ask as I recently added a second 690 to my rig and am having trouble enabling SLI, in fact not even seeing the option to enable in the NVidia control panel.

Rig Specs:
: 2 x EVGA GeForce GTX 690 4GB
: AMD FX-8150 Zambezi 3.6GHz Eight-Core Desktop Processor
: G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 32GB DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2400
: CORSAIR Professional Series Gold AX1200 1200W 80 PLUS GOLD Certified PSU
: CORSAIR Hydro Series H100 (CWCH100) Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
: GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD5 AM3+ AMD 990FX AMD Motherboard
: COOLER MASTER HAF X Blue Edition Black Steel / Plastic ATX Full Tower
: Kingston HyperX 240G 2.5" 240GB SATA III MLC Internal SSD
: 1 TB 7200 rpm Barracuda HDD

 

[RussK1]

I see no SLI connector are you running one card as phys-x?? I ask as I recently added a second 690 to my rig and am having trouble enabling SLI, in fact not even seeing the option to enable in the NVidia control panel.

Rig Specs:
: 2 x EVGA GeForce GTX 690 4GB
: AMD FX-8150 Zambezi 3.6GHz Eight-Core Desktop Processor
: G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 32GB DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 2400
: CORSAIR Professional Series Gold AX1200 1200W 80 PLUS GOLD Certified PSU
: CORSAIR Hydro Series H100 (CWCH100) Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
: GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD5 AM3+ AMD 990FX AMD Motherboard
: COOLER MASTER HAF X Blue Edition Black Steel / Plastic ATX Full Tower
: Kingston HyperX 240G 2.5" 240GB SATA III MLC Internal SSD
: 1 TB 7200 rpm Barracuda HDD

Make sure the bridge is on, all the cables connected and reinstall drivers.

 

[Akaza]

What CPU are you using and FFXIV lol. No seriously it is so poorly optimized I don't think even these bad boys can run it at max settings. Other than that the Witcher 2 would be cool?

The CPU is an Intel IVY BRIDGE-Extreme Core i7 (3960X)