flyguy737 Posted May 9, 2010 Share Posted May 9, 2010 I was looking around found a site that has Forceware Drivers for GTX480 cards 197.75? what is this? Here's a piccy I found too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orion Pilot Posted May 9, 2010 Share Posted May 9, 2010 What the ? Is that over Kill or what!......wonder what FPS they are getting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macca22au Posted May 9, 2010 Share Posted May 9, 2010 Are the drivers beta? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TenBlade Posted May 9, 2010 Share Posted May 9, 2010 What the ? Is that over Kill or what!......wonder what FPS they are getting! Yes, for FSX it´s absolutely overkill, chances are that FPS may drop, since SLI or even tri-SLI can easily have adverse effects on the game. But it would make for a nice heater in cold winters or for roasting marshmellows in your room But it looks very impressive, I wonder if the builder dares to squeeze this build into a case?! Good find! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyguy737 Posted May 9, 2010 Author Share Posted May 9, 2010 Are the drivers beta? Don't know about that it didn't say but they are only for the GTX480 cards. Thanks for the comments guys, Tenblade I knew you'd like that piccy Oh FPS rate? don't know but it I think it's showing off value is good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tennyson Posted May 9, 2010 Share Posted May 9, 2010 Not true. Triple SLI has been around for a while. The original Asus P6T Deluxe supported triple SLI, as does the Deluxe Version II. I have both of these boards. As has already been stated on numerous occassions, though, SLI does not work with FSX and in fact retards frame rates. Frank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Manhart Posted May 9, 2010 Share Posted May 9, 2010 It might not work for FSX, but it's damn sexy... Phil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyguy737 Posted May 9, 2010 Author Share Posted May 9, 2010 I think we all know that it wont improve your FPS in FSX shame about that though I guess it would be great if FSX took advantage of SLI. But I bet it's great for Quake 3 hehehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naji Posted May 9, 2010 Share Posted May 9, 2010 Thanks for the heads-up about the driver. I found it as beta on nvidia website for GTX480. Installed it and I find it is running FSX better than the 197.41. I noticed a bit of flashing texture but rarely. I am able to push AG up a notch to Very Dense at YBBN Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drumsonly2002 Posted May 9, 2010 Share Posted May 9, 2010 Wonder if running 2 x 480 for 3 monitors would work? If it can hold the FPS to 20-30 FPS over heavy airports on 3 monitors that would be worth considering. Better still in 3d! The question is, who here has a 480 x 2 working with 3 monitors to test and see if it will work at a constant 20 FPS smoothly with FSX. If 2 x 480's worked for 3 monitors for FSX, I would save my pay and get them, even if it took a year. Imagine Orbx over 3 monitors with 32 x AA? Sigh......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted May 9, 2010 Share Posted May 9, 2010 Wonder if running 2 x 480 for 3 monitors would work? If it can hold the FPS to 20-30 FPS over heavy airports on 3 monitors that would be worth considering. Better still in 3d! The question is, who here has a 480 x 2 working with 3 monitors to test and see if it will work at a constant 20 FPS smoothly with FSX. If 2 x 480's worked for 3 monitors for FSX, I would save my pay and get them, even if it took a year. Imagine Orbx over 3 monitors with 32 x AA? Sigh......... what'stopping you to try it out for us ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tennyson Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 I dunno how many times it's been said that SLI doesn't work in FSX. I had 2 x 9800GX2's in SLI running triple head2 go on 3 x 24" monitors and it was slower than when I took one out. A GTX480 is going to do the same, so why waste the price of an extra card? You would be better off saving your money for a new motherboard, chip and ram for next year when the replacement for the i7's comes out! Frank Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gurdy Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Sigh.... Frank I am still on a C2D and now you tell me the i7 is about to be superceded?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macca22au Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Agree:; forget SLI. In some convoluted logic, FSX was written for today's fast hardware, ... yet without threading, SLI capacity, alpha scenery which they took out at SP1 because of the deluge of performance complaints, some very sloppy autogen, and resource hungry AI. Soar airlines could hardly crawl off the ground, let alone glide like a bird! It's my wish, that MS would sell the code to a company that could simply go through and rewrite it. I don't care if they call it FSXnext as long as FSX add-ons and scenery were backward compatible. The only positive that Orbx, PMDG and others are basically making there products independent of the host game to the extent possible and therefore building faster and more functional products. The longer the time between X and next, the more of these refinements that will be made. But the base product does need a cleanup Are negotiations afoot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TenBlade Posted May 10, 2010 Share Posted May 10, 2010 Actually someone posted on Avsim, that with the Jesus-tweak SLI with two 480´s had worked! But, every rig is different. I would personally not go as far as to buy two 480´s to try it out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyguy737 Posted May 10, 2010 Author Share Posted May 10, 2010 anyway I think 1 GTX480 would be fine after all look at the feedback from JV on his blogs about the 480 and what others say and I think 1 is good enough. The main reason I put that piccy up in the first place was not to suggest SLI for FSX, but rather to show you a piccy that I found and thought it funny to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macca22au Posted May 11, 2010 Share Posted May 11, 2010 Did anyone catch the blog, elsewhere, that Video cards, yes GPUs are now being used as processors. In fact because of their structure and the number of chips they out-perform the conventional processors. How I don't know, even when explained to me. But it is honto. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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