To max out Crysis and achieve 1% lows above 60 would probably require something along the lines of a GeForce GTX 780 or Radeon R9 290 assuming you're staying at 1080p. Who knows, even that may not be enough.
@@RuruFIN I was able to do something similar with a Radeon 7970 back in the day, but the real trick is getting those 1% lows pegged at 60. I think that takes a little more horsepower.
780Ti isn't enough, falls under 34 FPS. even 980Ti not so better(44). Tried under XP. But, HD6950 beats them in this game by far. Of course any other game runs better on the 980Ti. The way its radeon meant to be play. Haha. If i have a 7970, i will try again. :)
It's also interesting to see older GPUs tested with newer platforms instead of period correct platforms. Just like Nexus is using a X99 rig (even though its old, but not something like a C2D/C2Q from the GF 8800 era).
I only had once an SLI setup and regret the money i spent. Got 2x GTX660 after i sold a 280X from AMD. One performance and financial mistake i made almost 10 years ago. And since we are talking about years, Happy New Year ! :)
I have a XFX 680iLT board with 2 8800 GTS cards that match and it works very well together. They have 640 mb's of memory and are SLI in Win XP. I will set this up to run many older games that I have to see how well they run when done. Thank You for this Video!
I was building PCs back then for a living, and the 8800 series was a great series. I had the 8800gtx or ultra, I don't remember which. Before that I had 2 x 7950gx2 and while SLI was cool and this was a powerhouse setup some games still had issues, which is why I swapped to the 8800.
I'd love, love, love to see later SLI capable games included, where possible. Classic (not Enhanced) Witcher III is something I think would be very interesting. Also, where did SLI support begin - what was the first game that supported it, or benefited from it? I'm really curious about weird outliers too - is Neverwinter Nights enhanced with multiple GPUs in its classic form (Ok, that might just be me, LOL). Cool new series - everyone dips a toe into those waters, but I can't think of anyone who did an extended shootout! Cheers!
still have an 8800gtx, two years later u got about the same perf with an amd hd 4850 for about 150€, ie 350€ cheaper for the same perf two year later. Look at how it is today. when 6900xt came out like 4 years ago I think it was, the cheapest was 1500€, today u get the same card for 500€ or an 7800xt for a bit more like 550-600€ for the cheapest models when they usually are at almost 700€... crazy...
Sli was canned to make sure people bought new cards. It was too easy to buy a second card to SLI when your first was getting old. Usually used at a discount to boot. Something Nvidia frowned upon. There is a list of SLI games that work and how well if you google. Same with crossfire. Hope you plan on crossfiring. Another underutilized but awesome tech. Again, ditched in order to force GPU upgrades for the best performance. Edit: AMD just got it to work in one GPU using multiple dies. They do not want you buying two low end cards to get close to high end performance so instead they decided to use it to make GPU building cheaper. So sad. They will charge us but not allow us to give ourselves a discount. It's so sad. Multi GPU has been in DX12 since day one. Only one game used it. The card makers do not want you to get that value per dollar. Also, SLI was invented by 3DFX. Nvidia bought it when they bought a sizeable chunk of their company after 3DFX declated bankruptcy
@danimayb Sounds more like corporate propaganda. I see so many SLI builds for sale even today to know it's corporate propaganda. No company wants to cannibalize their stack for SLI or XFire. Intel started out without it. It's not hard to program for and it's implemented in DX12 without the need for matching cards or a bridge. Multi GPU. One game has it, and it's a game it's not needed in. They did it to prove it was easy, and it is. It's pr propaganda. See through it.
Recently decided to try SLi after acquiring an AM2 board with a 6400+. Bought two GT 545 cards and saw FPS double. Need to try these on a more modern SLi motherboard. Cool Video!
I couldn't afford a GTX model, so i got the GTS...one of my favorite GPUs of all time. Playing Crysis in 720p at medium was very playable for me. At this time i got also new 1080p lcd tv.
In a future it would be nice to make SLI from two GTX 480's and compare that to GTX 590 including the price (at the time when 590 was released). This would be nice comparison between what would be better at the time :D
I think there was some version of 8800 that was faster then GTX 9800.This is great video!My first card was some special version of GTX 260 by Gainward, more MB and wider bit/s bus... 😉
Used to have AGP ATI Radeon 3850, best card for AGP, Far Cry and Crysis in 1080p with no problem, paired with Phenom II x4.Those were the days... @@wertywerrtyson5529 😉
that 8800 video had an antec 900 case in it which to me is still one of the sturdiest pc cases ive ever used , i still sport it with a i7 2600k and radeon rx 470 with windows 7 still in it
Recently picked up a pair of 7950gx2s so I can do quad sli but next on my agenda is to get 3 8800 cards. I've been told that the gts cards have survived more than the gtx cards because they're clocked lower.
I had 2 680s for years, they lasted so damn long. Couldn't do that these days with the quality of code going to shit, my 3080 already struggles at times
Btw, there's an idea i poundering about. I have 2 8800, with a regular fan,and recently discovered another,but with the "turbine" type of cooler. It will be interesting to see the temps& performance difference. Probably...
i had this exact setup paired with a core 2 quad 9650. It was a beast for the time... edit: maybe these were the same cards I sold years ago! : )...edit 2: nope, mine were matching pairs
you better do 3 way and 4 way SLI where available "edit" also watching you go through settings is painful, you set all your settings manually then you go to the game settings and click "medium" or "high" when you do that its a preset and it changes all the settings you just set to something else.
GTA 4 vanilla without optimization mods are terrible. You gotta need patch this game for unlocking memory usage and some fixes, the result is 75fps on medium(Just guessing of benchmarking cuz i don't have that card.)
To max out Crysis and achieve 1% lows above 60 would probably require something along the lines of a GeForce GTX 780 or Radeon R9 290 assuming you're staying at 1080p. Who knows, even that may not be enough.
I remember my 7950 being pretty close to maxing Crysis at 1080p 60fps.
I remember running with pretty solid 1080p60 max settings with an overclocked GTX 670. I had a Pentium G3258 @ 4.7GHz as a CPU paired with that GPU.
@@RuruFIN I was able to do something similar with a Radeon 7970 back in the day, but the real trick is getting those 1% lows pegged at 60. I think that takes a little more horsepower.
780Ti isn't enough, falls under 34 FPS. even 980Ti not so better(44). Tried under XP. But, HD6950 beats them in this game by far. Of course any other game runs better on the 980Ti. The way its radeon meant to be play. Haha. If i have a 7970, i will try again. :)
I love content discussing older hardware. Please keep up the great work and excellent production quality.
It's also interesting to see older GPUs tested with newer platforms instead of period correct platforms. Just like Nexus is using a X99 rig (even though its old, but not something like a C2D/C2Q from the GF 8800 era).
Live the older games like this and the sli content. Window xp and 7 was the best for me.
Most legendary GPUs
I only had once an SLI setup and regret the money i spent. Got 2x GTX660 after i sold a 280X from AMD. One performance and financial mistake i made almost 10 years ago. And since we are talking about years, Happy New Year ! :)
Happy New Year buddy 🙂
I have a XFX 680iLT board with 2 8800 GTS cards that match and it works very well together. They have 640 mb's of memory and are SLI in Win XP. I will set this up to run many older games that I have to see how well they run when done. Thank You for this Video!
Man, this channel is too underrated... :D
amazing i love old hardware but especially SLI
Thanks for letting me relive the times I wished I had back then.
4:37 aaahhhhh yes advanced physics. i do really like it 😏
I was building PCs back then for a living, and the 8800 series was a great series. I had the 8800gtx or ultra, I don't remember which. Before that I had 2 x 7950gx2 and while SLI was cool and this was a powerhouse setup some games still had issues, which is why I swapped to the 8800.
this is awesome content cheers!
Nice test, i ran a sli rig in 2008. 2x 7600gts. I always wanted the 8800gts back then.
Great video!
I'd love, love, love to see later SLI capable games included, where possible. Classic (not Enhanced) Witcher III is something I think would be very interesting.
Also, where did SLI support begin - what was the first game that supported it, or benefited from it? I'm really curious about weird outliers too - is Neverwinter Nights enhanced with multiple GPUs in its classic form (Ok, that might just be me, LOL).
Cool new series - everyone dips a toe into those waters, but I can't think of anyone who did an extended shootout!
Cheers!
still have an 8800gtx, two years later u got about the same perf with an amd hd 4850 for about 150€, ie 350€ cheaper for the same perf two year later. Look at how it is today. when 6900xt came out like 4 years ago I think it was, the cheapest was 1500€, today u get the same card for 500€ or an 7800xt for a bit more like 550-600€ for the cheapest models when they usually are at almost 700€... crazy...
The HD4850 was legendary at the time. It was the budget gamers card. I was able to max my games out for a good 2 years.
I think that testing the games at 720p make more sense, since that was a far more popular resolution back in the days
I love this channel
Sli was canned to make sure people bought new cards. It was too easy to buy a second card to SLI when your first was getting old. Usually used at a discount to boot. Something Nvidia frowned upon.
There is a list of SLI games that work and how well if you google. Same with crossfire. Hope you plan on crossfiring. Another underutilized but awesome tech. Again, ditched in order to force GPU upgrades for the best performance.
Edit: AMD just got it to work in one GPU using multiple dies. They do not want you buying two low end cards to get close to high end performance so instead they decided to use it to make GPU building cheaper. So sad. They will charge us but not allow us to give ourselves a discount. It's so sad. Multi GPU has been in DX12 since day one. Only one game used it. The card makers do not want you to get that value per dollar.
Also, SLI was invented by 3DFX. Nvidia bought it when they bought a sizeable chunk of their company after 3DFX declated bankruptcy
I bought 3 1080 8gb cards together awhile back that can be SLI'd and since they are water cooled it should work very well on some older titles.
@danimayb Sounds more like corporate propaganda. I see so many SLI builds for sale even today to know it's corporate propaganda. No company wants to cannibalize their stack for SLI or XFire. Intel started out without it. It's not hard to program for and it's implemented in DX12 without the need for matching cards or a bridge. Multi GPU. One game has it, and it's a game it's not needed in. They did it to prove it was easy, and it is. It's pr propaganda. See through it.
The 8/9 series in SLI were absolutely wild.
Recently decided to try SLi after acquiring an AM2 board with a 6400+. Bought two GT 545 cards and saw FPS double. Need to try these on a more modern SLi motherboard. Cool Video!
Great video, many thanks
I couldn't afford a GTX model, so i got the GTS...one of my favorite GPUs of all time.
Playing Crysis in 720p at medium was very playable for me. At this time i got also new 1080p lcd tv.
In a future it would be nice to make SLI from two GTX 480's and compare that to GTX 590 including the price (at the time when 590 was released). This would be nice comparison between what would be better at the time :D
I think there was some version of 8800 that was faster then GTX 9800.This is great video!My first card was some special version of GTX 260 by Gainward, more MB and wider bit/s bus... 😉
I had a 8800 GTS that died after 2 years, and I still had warranty at the time - so I got a 260 GTX as replacement! Also by Gainward!
9000 series was just a die shrink of 8000 series. It was a low point for nvidia. Radeon 4870 was better.
Used to have AGP ATI Radeon 3850, best card for AGP, Far Cry and Crysis in 1080p with no problem, paired with Phenom II x4.Those were the days... @@wertywerrtyson5529 😉
I still have my original XFX 8800 GTS
that 8800 video had an antec 900 case in it which to me is still one of the sturdiest pc cases ive ever used , i still sport it with a i7 2600k and radeon rx 470 with windows 7 still in it
I have a pair of em. 9800 and 8800. Got a pair of GTX 470s and GTX 570s as well.
Recently picked up a pair of 7950gx2s so I can do quad sli but next on my agenda is to get 3 8800 cards. I've been told that the gts cards have survived more than the gtx cards because they're clocked lower.
i used to have a evga 9800gts but gave it to my media manager at my church as his died.....by that time i was using a gtx 460 i believe
The 8800 is quite a legendary GPU.
The 1080ti of its time.
I had 2 680s for years, they lasted so damn long. Couldn't do that these days with the quality of code going to shit, my 3080 already struggles at times
Btw, there's an idea i poundering about.
I have 2 8800, with a regular fan,and recently discovered another,but with the "turbine" type of cooler.
It will be interesting to see the temps& performance difference.
Probably...
I had and still have a pair of these .
i had this exact setup paired with a core 2 quad 9650. It was a beast for the time... edit: maybe these were the same cards I sold years ago! : )...edit 2: nope, mine were matching pairs
also, microstutter was a big issue with the SLI 8800GTS setup
Yeap.
Exactly what i've wanted to do !!
i bet my sapphire 3850 512mb ddr3 agp 8x would do crysis pretty good
Crysis 1 without any modification works much better with AMD/ATI cards. Not a surprise.
I remember coveting the 8800, I think I had a knockoff geforce 5000 series, a 5500 maybe?
I used them for playing Hard Boiled
Anyone remember the UE4 demo that ran 3x GTX 580's to run at 1080p 😂
I love you a lot, but you should have used windows xp
you better do 3 way and 4 way SLI where available "edit" also watching you go through settings is painful, you set all your settings manually then you go to the game settings and click "medium" or "high" when you do that its a preset and it changes all the settings you just set to something else.
What is your settings on 6950x?
😀
Do you have two 8800GTS 512 for a second SLI test? :)
GTA 4 vanilla without optimization mods are terrible. You gotta need patch this game for unlocking memory usage and some fixes, the result is 75fps on medium(Just guessing of benchmarking cuz i don't have that card.)
3090 can sli.
I just finished upgrading my nephews PC and it's got a ASUS 3090ti that can be SLI'd.