JohnnyNashville Posted March 12, 2016 Member ID: 25938 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 21 Topic Count: 346 Topics Per Day: 0.12 Content Count: 1496 Content Per Day: 0.51 Reputation: 290 Achievement Points: 13343 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/17/17 Status: Offline Last Seen: September 8, 2024 Birthday: 08/08/1961 Device: Windows Posted March 12, 2016 Hey Kids, My Specs are in my signature...my current graphic configuration is 1 970 powering my Asus 144hz monitor and another 970 powering my 2 POS 1080 side monitors... I game on only the Asus monitor and use my side monitors for procon, TS3, email...plain jane stuff. I do this by plugging in the monitor into each card as described above. Today I decided to run all 3 in SLI to see if it would increase my FPS...well it only let me run 1 monitor in SLI so I choice my gaming monitor and wow!! 200 FPS!! (of course the 2 side monitors blacked out). Now, I know that's a waste of power but I would like to run just my gaming monitor in SLI and bleed of a little power to my side monitors... Any ideas?? Thanks, aj
JohnnyNashville Posted March 12, 2016 Member ID: 25938 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 21 Topic Count: 346 Topics Per Day: 0.12 Content Count: 1496 Content Per Day: 0.51 Reputation: 290 Achievement Points: 13343 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 05/17/17 Status: Offline Last Seen: September 8, 2024 Birthday: 08/08/1961 Device: Windows Author Posted March 12, 2016 Learned alot in a few minutes...by connecting all 3 monitors to the top card I am now able to run all 3 in SLI...not quite what I wanted but was able to gain about 25 FPS....then by making my center monitor (144hz gaming monitor) my primary monitor I gained another 25 fps....so with... Everything set to ultra Field of View set to 80 Resolution Scale set to 180 I am bumping along at 100 FPS! Thanks to all that helped (that would be me) aj
B-Murda Posted March 13, 2016 Member ID: 5841 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 17 Topic Count: 54 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 608 Content Per Day: 0.14 Reputation: 699 Achievement Points: 4384 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 03/02/13 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 29, 2021 Posted March 13, 2016 Hah, yeah it's because when you enable SLI it's using the second card to just offboard a portion of the rendering and the SLI bus transfers it back to the main card and because of this the ports get disabled. I think some of the new way they are doing things will change a lot of this and make this no longer an issue. I'd lower your resolution scale down. After about 120-140 you won't see any difference and it just kills your FPS. I have mine set at 125 with everything on ultra to make sure I can get over 150FPS so my 144Hz is taken full advantage of. You can also disable Anti-Aliasing Post and it will help. Any post processing always is shitty because it's just making fake blurs to try to hide jaggedness but it's even less important once you are doing over-scaling since that takes care of a lot of it on its own too. I'd say aim for 144-156FPS and that will be taking full advantage of your fancy monitor. I also cap my FPS to that since anything over is a waste and it allows the GPU to run cooler since it isn't running at 100% that means. Awards
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