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hyp36rmax
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Oct 19, 2017
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I have two of these in SLI on EK waterblocks. love 'em!
hyp36rmax
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Oct 20, 2017
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williamk212Hi thanks! The chassis is a Mercury S5 from Caselabs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWqzQyjJ_Ko
http://www.caselabs-store.com/mercury-s5-case-customizable/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWqzQyjJ_Ko
http://www.caselabs-store.com/mercury-s5-case-customizable/
evan_thomas-broughton
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Oct 21, 2017
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hyp36rmaxexcept SLI is virtually useless other than making your case hotter and wasting your money for no variable gain and actually a loss in compute resource. Nothing needs or wants sli of 2 1080tis
hyp36rmax
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Oct 21, 2017
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evan_thomas-broughton
Yea OK... I run triple ASUS MG279Q monitors at a resolution of 7680x1440P @ 144hz (Yes I know freesync... my previous setup was crossfire AMD FURY X's). When 4K 144hz monitors are widely available, you better believe you'll need to run SLI/Crossfire
It also depends what games you play, with all the games I run have SLI/Crossfire support ;) Even if they don't it's absolutely fine and run's like a champ.
Thanks but no thanks *mic drop*
Yea OK... I run triple ASUS MG279Q monitors at a resolution of 7680x1440P @ 144hz (Yes I know freesync... my previous setup was crossfire AMD FURY X's). When 4K 144hz monitors are widely available, you better believe you'll need to run SLI/Crossfire
It also depends what games you play, with all the games I run have SLI/Crossfire support ;) Even if they don't it's absolutely fine and run's like a champ.
Thanks but no thanks *mic drop*
evan_thomas-broughton
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Oct 21, 2017
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hyp36rmaxYeah thats great except you’re waiting for the 4K to become “widely available” and the tech for 4k is far from any point of making a noticeble difference to your quality. A point to further this is the FACT that there is little to no support for them, games are not yet greatly optimised for 4K and theres not much in development to drive 4K gaming.... At this point you justification for it is lackluster unless you are prepping for the next year or so when the tech is actually at a good level and there are GOOD games that have actually been developed and optimised for 4K gaming.
I pick up your mic and throw it back in your face.
I pick up your mic and throw it back in your face.
hyp36rmax
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Oct 21, 2017
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evan_thomas-broughtonLol! that's it... ?
The ASUS PG27UQ just came out... Little to no support!? Project Cars 2.... BF 1.... (Games I play the most) Yea OK....
The ASUS PG27UQ just came out... Little to no support!? Project Cars 2.... BF 1.... (Games I play the most) Yea OK....
evan_thomas-broughton
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Oct 21, 2017
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hyp36rmaxBF1 is not a game optimised for 4K and neither is project cars xD they have some mod or some little patch but that means nothing lmao where do you get your facts from
evan_thomas-broughton
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Oct 21, 2017
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evan_thomas-broughtonAlso neglecting the rest of my statement lmao
Xerces
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Oct 22, 2017
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evan_thomas-broughtonBoth Battlefield 1 and project cars natively support 4K, as most modern titles do. Actually I'm fairly sure 90% of the stuff in my personal Steam/Origin/Uplay library supports 4K, with games like Antichamber being outlier exceptions.
Hell, with the magic of custom resolutions and/or DSR in the driver, a lot of games can support 4k. (Even on monitors that aren't 4K resolution! WOW!)
I ran Elite Dangerous at 4K when I had a 1080p monitor because of the enhanced detail you get with DSR scaling. It still ran at 100fps because it's fairly well optimized.
Is 4K practical for /most people/ to drive these days when you consider budget and how much GPU power you need? No, no it is not.
Is is still possible to drive most games at 60-80fps/max settings/4K with two very expensive GPUs if your pockets are deep enough? Sure. I'm not entirely sure why you're being so abrasive and hating on @hyp36rmax 's setup so much. He's clearly put a lot of time and effort into custom watercooling it and making it look unique. Perhaps you're a bit jealous, it's honestly hard to tell.
Nothing is "optimized" for 4K because it's still a niche resolution for gaming compared to 1080p, 2K, and probably will continue to be for a while. Consoles can only run games at 4K30 because they use tricks like rendering diagonal sections of a 4K image and estimating the stuff that falls in-between.
I ran Elite Dangerous at 4K when I had a 1080p monitor because of the enhanced detail you get with DSR scaling. It still ran at 100fps because it's fairly well optimized.
Is 4K practical for /most people/ to drive these days when you consider budget and how much GPU power you need? No, no it is not.
Is is still possible to drive most games at 60-80fps/max settings/4K with two very expensive GPUs if your pockets are deep enough? Sure. I'm not entirely sure why you're being so abrasive and hating on @hyp36rmax 's setup so much. He's clearly put a lot of time and effort into custom watercooling it and making it look unique. Perhaps you're a bit jealous, it's honestly hard to tell.
Nothing is "optimized" for 4K because it's still a niche resolution for gaming compared to 1080p, 2K, and probably will continue to be for a while. Consoles can only run games at 4K30 because they use tricks like rendering diagonal sections of a 4K image and estimating the stuff that falls in-between.
TheSkeleton
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Oct 23, 2017
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Xercesthis whole discussion makes me remember why I dont come to this side of massdrop, although it is kinda funny. you guys are so happy to start arguments for no reason its almost satire.
evan_thomas-broughton
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Oct 23, 2017
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XercesYou’re last paragraph just backs my point... the rest is null. When I said support I didn’t mean “can run on 4K” I meant actually has increased quality and detail then playing on any other monitor. Which at this point there are no games that have notibly increased quality on 4K screens.
Im not hating on it, I only stated the sli was not needed, he was the one that came back with an undeducated retort. Its cool but sli in there just becomes its drawback. Its less about time and effort and more about efficiency and monitary cost.
but again, you misunderstood my point about support and whilst there are some games optimised there are hardly any and those that are have no noticeable difference to the naked eye thats gonna make you think “wow this was worth all that money buying a 4K monitor and getting sli set up” if you do think that you are either biased or dont want to admit that its not good enough yet.
Im not hating on it, I only stated the sli was not needed, he was the one that came back with an undeducated retort. Its cool but sli in there just becomes its drawback. Its less about time and effort and more about efficiency and monitary cost.
but again, you misunderstood my point about support and whilst there are some games optimised there are hardly any and those that are have no noticeable difference to the naked eye thats gonna make you think “wow this was worth all that money buying a 4K monitor and getting sli set up” if you do think that you are either biased or dont want to admit that its not good enough yet.
Xerces
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Oct 23, 2017
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evan_thomas-broughtonI see you've completely missed my points regarding 4K in relation to your original point because you're cherry picking. There are valid reasons for and also against 4K/multi GPU, and I acknowledged both.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking Deeply ironic considering you complained about someone doing the same to you earlier on in this thread.
Logical fallacies and semantics aside, I was merely trying to give you some more information and a different perspective on a topic you were discussing. Whether you choose to read up on things like DSR and performance numbers for 4K is your choice.
This is a really cool Anandtech article that explains how DSR works if you're interested in learning more about what 4K can do to benefit you in other scenarios.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/8526/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-review/6
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking Deeply ironic considering you complained about someone doing the same to you earlier on in this thread.
Logical fallacies and semantics aside, I was merely trying to give you some more information and a different perspective on a topic you were discussing. Whether you choose to read up on things like DSR and performance numbers for 4K is your choice.
This is a really cool Anandtech article that explains how DSR works if you're interested in learning more about what 4K can do to benefit you in other scenarios.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/8526/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-review/6
evan_thomas-broughton
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Oct 23, 2017
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XercesI was not cheery picking and I know what cherry picking means you dont have to wiki it so you dismount from your high horse there.
I reacted to relevant points and not the irrelivant fluff.
I do know how DSR works and as such I still stand by my statement that its not worth it currently and thats all this has been about. Great you have all those cool features but its only potential and not actually utilised fully yet. You can’t argue to me that any game atm looks drastically more superior on 4K. Dynamic Super Resolution is not the be all and end all and certainly shouldn’t be your reason for getting 4K. It doesnt make a major difference, it’s just rendering your game at a higher resolution. Simply put. You can do that without having a 4K screen and it will look pretty much the same. It does not mean this feature makes 4K look better then non4k monitors. So DSR is irrelevant.
I reacted to relevant points and not the irrelivant fluff.
I do know how DSR works and as such I still stand by my statement that its not worth it currently and thats all this has been about. Great you have all those cool features but its only potential and not actually utilised fully yet. You can’t argue to me that any game atm looks drastically more superior on 4K. Dynamic Super Resolution is not the be all and end all and certainly shouldn’t be your reason for getting 4K. It doesnt make a major difference, it’s just rendering your game at a higher resolution. Simply put. You can do that without having a 4K screen and it will look pretty much the same. It does not mean this feature makes 4K look better then non4k monitors. So DSR is irrelevant.
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