3 x GTX280 = very high res, very high detail crysis

[dangel]

http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforc...review-test/13

Only ~749watts power draw too.

Bargain, and yours for around 2000 dollars.

[D.M]

http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforc...review-test/13

Only ~749watts power draw too.

Bargain, and yours for around 2000 dollars.

lol, i'll take 2 lots please, 1 for me & 1 for me mate Dave!

(Disclaimer, I dont actually have a mate called Dave..........& I dont have $4000 either! Oh well!)

[WoLFe]

So that's what it takes to "tame Crysis".. almost.

[!TIMMY!]

and with Crysis 2 on the way your going to have to link up 2 of those to run it :S

[dangel]

Crytek are saying Warhead will be better optimized - we'll see!

[shaithis]

Incredible how little you get for the extra. Never liked multi-GPU and this is a great example of why

Still, I have already seen people running SLI GTX280, I am sure it won't be long before we see the triple-SLI systems popping up

[dangel]

Brownouts would abound.

(the other kind, not the knife in the back of the useless PM)

[Noxvayl]

Bloody hell £2000 minimum for a Crysis running system... I'd rather just leave Crysis on the shelf thank you. Plus just imagine running a system that draws 800W. The power bill will be doubled for sure, well doubled from what my power draw is costing.

[Fraz]

Bonkers.

[Robbie G]

Bizarre! Who'd pay that much? I prefer to wait a few years for games like Crysis to be playable at pretty resolutions and levels of details.

[badass]

Bloody hell £2000 minimum for a Crysis running system... I'd rather just leave Crysis on the shelf thank you.

You could of course reduce the detail and/or resolution

[Infinite]

haha. i wish i had money to burn =P

[kevpuk]

Thing is, Crysis is the only problematic game - at least to such a degree......very hard to spend such money to play one game (pretty as it is)......still, wasn't there a gap of sorts before Oblivion became 'fully' enjoyable ?

[Hicks12]

does the very high xp hack work just as well in killing fps? i managed to get between 40-60fps on crysis very high(xphack) with my 8800GTS not sli , shows how pro my card is .

Note: That is on multiplayer, some reason on multi the fps shoots up so wonder why benchmarks for crysis never say if its single or multiplayer tests, on single i get 30fps lol.

[edjay]

This seems like quite a realistic thrash with the 260 and the 280:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...0,1953-18.html

From what I've read so far, I think SLI OVERKILL is ....err....overkill, and a ripoff. My pennies will go on the cheaper version of the 280 this time next year.

[TooNice]

I am puzzled: looking at just the performance, it looks like a third 280GTX add more performance over two 280GTX compared to two 280GTX over one. This is strange because diminishing returns usually increases as you add more cards.