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Old November 16th 08, 05:50 PM posted to alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia
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Default SLI power questions

I have an Nvidia N9800GX2 card and it has two GPU's on it and was wondering
if this is the equivalent of SLi because in the Nvidia Control Panel it
recomends that i set it as Multi GPU!! and have done so. I would like to fit
another of these cards to SLi it but my mobo is Crossfire.
IN COD4 settings it is set as Dual Video Card and works fine.
I have a Coolermaster Real Power 1250watt PSU, perhaps this is overkill but
better to be safe than sorry.
What are your thoughts on this.

Phil.

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My set up is this
O/S Vista 32 sp1 all hot fixes
CPU AMD 6000+ 3.0
M/B ASUS Crosshair
Ram Corsair xm2 DDR2 800 4 gigs (4 sticks 1 gig each )
PSU Corsair 620HX
Cards 2 same Foxconn o/c 8800GTX in SLI
Drives 2 Seagate Barracudas in raid 0
Optical 2 dvd writers
Fans 6 case fans running 100%
Display 24" V7
Drivers are all up to date. SLI enabled in ntune.
Bios is up to date on M/B

Ok question is this.:

I have each card hooked up to the PSU with it's own cord. No other items
draw power off of them. I was wondering is this PSU is enough to power
them. I have played COD4 max setting 1920 x 1200 and get 70-91 average in
multiplayer with about 24 players total( these fps are in game not fraps).
I do see drops to 50 when moving around from time to time. I played for
about a hour and I haven't had any restarts or glitches. I was told that
my FPS should stay in the 91. I was told my PSU can run them but not
correctly. Can any one give some feed back if my system could run these
cards good. I just installed the second card last week. Crysis FPS is
about 35 with settings 1920 x 1200 2x anti and Gamer settings.