3-WAY SLI GeForce GTX 280 on Core 2 Extreme QX6850 - RETRO Hardware

[@sixsledges5474]

Stalker uses only one CPU thread, but it supports 3-way SLI...

[@ИзяШмуль]

mysterioys russian gamedev :3

[@OlezhkO88]

Анатолий Шмуль *Ukrainian

[@OlezhkO88]

and Crysis too

[@Владислав-ы9м5у]

@@OlezhkO88 было время, когда разделять "русский" и "украинский" не было чем-то зазорным. На одном языке говорим, друзьями... были.

[@pavlochikalo1977]

Владислав теперь мы убиваем друг друга (это было всегда просто у людей короткая память), поэтому сейчас разделяют

[@chincemagnet]

I had a 3 way 280s setup back in the day, Crysis was the obsession back then. I had an Intel 9650 @ 4.1 GHz, 4 GB DDR3 2000 MHz on a Striker II Extreme 790i Ultra. Mine were XFX XXX Edition.

[@raveja8696]

Isnt 9650 3.0 ghz?

[@dirifiripirikiri]

@@raveja8696 OC

[@sasatodorovic9056]

Sick :)

[@slckb0y65]

my retro gaming rig is a Q9650@4.1ghz+790i ultra aswell but the XFX watercooled version, 4x2gb of Corsair Dominator 2000mhz paired with a sli of Gigabyte GTX 470 SOC, CPU/MOBO/GPU are all watercooled with a 360 rad mounted on top of a Cooler Master HAF 932 case. only problem i've got is the 790i is not compatible with X-fi sound cards so if ever you've found working replacement i'd be very interested.

[@chincemagnet]

@@slckb0y65 the Striker II Extreme also had a water block. Although the crappy adapters it came with sprung a leak and killed one of my 280s, fortunately it was replaced under warranty and I learned to be extremely cautious when assembling liquid cooling loops and only to use good quality components, which can be very costly. The amount of money I have in just fittings on my loop is absurd. Fortunately they can be reused Indefinitely.

[@ZeroHourProductions407]

I'm still shocked i got seven useful years of life out of my gtx 285 back then. That architecture had some carrying power for sure.

[@maytizevb]

No is bad only for lol

[@r0wdybandit015]

the heatsinks on that ram holy s...

[@clipsedrag13]

and yet I just watched this video about thermaltake scamming on ram thermals on gamernexxus . hmmm

[@LyK0sa]

Yeah they're pretty crazy, even crazier than the OCZ reaper DDR3 kit I had in my old X58 build, and I thought they were about as OTT as you could get.

[@Wasmachineman]

You should try running Tri-SLI on a X58 system!

[@RETROHardware]

In future if I will get something around X58. My collection ends with LGA775 (if I‘am not counting few ES boards)

[@yavb3lo1futb0lk3]

X58 WITH 990X I7

[@TheRezin819]

A dell precision t7500 with a xeon w3680 can overclock to 4.1ghz on a budget and do 3 way sli, and if you go with xeon x56xx you can have dual cpu too

[@wishusknight3009]

@@RETROHardware My 2x SLI 280 system uses an I7 940. It was on average about 50% improvement over running E8400 overclocked to 3.2 ghz on 1600mhz fsb. Most single threaded games were always higher FPS, but multithreaded games being another world of performance and player experience. I found it quite shocking to say the least how much difference it makes. However I run it with HyperThreading off simply due to it sometimes being a decrease in performance on XP. Of course your Quad core is going to give something close to that smoothness, so the difference may not be so dramatic in some games, but the x58 platform will give at least huge improvement in FPS almost anywhere. And the SLI scaling may even be much better than you are seeing here.

[@dktha]

I got a huge boost on X58 (i7-965) even with 8800 Ultra 3x SLI compared to my QX6850 :)

[@t29sinking]

A 3-way-SLI is always beautiful.

[@HernanFb52]

BEEN WAITING ON THIS SINCE I SAW THE LAST VIDEO SICK MAN

[@MasterDrood]

That 3 way SLI looks amazing, I am planing doing one myself with a core 2 e8400 and 280's too, looks so sick

[@VikingDudee]

Yeah, Wish these newer games actually scaled and worked well with sli these days, A lot of older titles seemed to scale and work great over multiple cards.

[@danybackstone]

@@VikingDudee With customs profiles, SLI works and is quite well scaled on game that doesn't support it (Metro Exodus / DCS / Arma...) but with only 2 cards (1070+) your CPU will bottleneck anyway. 3-SLI is just nonsense apart for hitting 1000Fps in Unreal tournament or Doom II. And using such old gen hardware on newer game doesn't worth it (the bill, heat, noise, performance ratio). a well scaled SLI can run your game with VSYNC, with 2 cards at mid power (55%) witch is good on powerdraw AND noise than a single à 100%. 😁

[@spicywolf6718]

Why an E8400? I use those things as socket dust covers. If you're that keen on one I have a 2008 Dell 650i SLI with 4x2 DDR2 800MHz & a Q9650 spare, along with spare E8400, Q9300, Q9400, Q9650. Boards out of an XPS630i and I believe it is possible to refæash the bios to another 650 It was fun for a while but my QX9770/Asus P5E64 WS Evolution/4x2 GB Corsair Dominator GT 1866C9@1.65v just had so much more potential for single GPU builds (PCIe 2.0) even if it lacked SLI.

[@jakegarrett8109]

Dany Backstone you haven’t tried 4k gaming right? Yeah, even my Titan Xp is dog$hit for above console frame rates at 4k... Thankfully my 4x Fury kicks butt like nobody’s business! For instance, instead of a choppy 45 fps on the Titan my much cheaper Fury build does a mind blowing, silky smooth 100 fps in Crysis 3 at 4k Ultra! Now that games are about on par with the old 2013 Crysis 3 in terms of computational demands, it’s pretty relevant to many modern games (Fortnite runs a little easier, but haha, surprisingly not much like you would think it should...)

[@VikingDudee]

@@danybackstone yeah, dx12 and many dx11 games do not work, and cant be forced without some things breaking like lightning or shadows flickering, or they dont scale well, or get tons of stuttering. I have 2x gtx1070s and i7 5960x, trust me, it's not worth it for newer games.

[@SmokinGoodd420]

Awesomenesss! This was my dream setup over a decade ago!

[@ahmedst290]

Great video and also legendary hardware! Keep working up like this!

[@corneliodamianperezmedrano1136]

Golden era of SLI

[@t29sinking]

After seeing this, i decided to make it mine. I bought 4 GTX285. The 4-way-SLI runs well but not on Win10, Win7 good. Favorite socket for this experience : 2011. Gigabyte GA-x79-UD3.

[@iceManSwag]

I had the following setup at that time era 750w PSU dont remeber brand ASUS Rampage iX48 Intel Core Quad Q9450 nVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 1Gb DDR3 4x OCZ 1Gb PC9600 DDR2 Windows Vista Ultimate So his setup is not the best CPU even for that time. I would suggest a better CPU for this triple SLI setup.

[@filip-pi9hy]

i had q9450 and hd4870x2 in cf

[@iamccwwcc]

This pc parts porn is so satisfying, either visually or auditory.

[@marantzvieta]

Man is this really retro hardware????? Feeling old there...

[@jamesclark7380]

Lol, the Geforce 200 series is older today than the Voodoo 2 was when the Geforce 200 released.

[@Slooby]

shockingly yeah, i keep forgetting we're in 2020

[@Slooby]

this is 10 year old hardware now, mindblowing

[@MsTwte]

ok boomer

[@Tc4ify]

@@MsTwte Your comment is getting REALLY old as well...

[@alexandr1077]

Хороший канал! Интересно смотреть на старые, раритетные PC железки )

[@Edward135i]

Set up's like this are what got me into PC gaming back when I was in high school, truly seems like golden age now days with the price of single gpus and basically no SLI support.

[@soylentgreenb]

Golden age was the late 90's early 00's by far. Early 90's it became possible to get a cheap PC. 386DX40, then 486DX2-66, then pentium 166 really stuck around and just got cheaper. Pentium pro and pentium II were big setbacks on cost; but a year or two later AMD and intel were both sprinting towards 1 GHz and CPU prices were in complete freefall. In short order 3d accelerators became a thing, fillrates quadrupled, tripled, and doubled by the year, anti-aliasing, trilinear filtering, shaders, anisotropic filtering, T&L all arrived in short order. This mess of 3D graphics APIs shaked itself out to just openGL and direct 3D and most games became compatible with most hardware. Early 00's the best graphics card you could get cost $400, and that was expensive. You could get one 80% as nice for half the price or less. A good CPU cost around $200. Dennard scaling was still in effect and everything was still improving by 50% or so per year (40% improvement from clockspeed and 10% improvement from IPC was *average* in the 90's from year to year). 5 years separates the pentium 233 MMX and the 2 GHz athlon 64. 5 years separate the voodoo 2 and the legendary radeon 9700 pro. This GTX 280 comes from after the big slowdown. It had to be huge and it had to be hot to eek out some performance gains that might prompt someone to buy it. This was a 575 mm^2 die. A very high end graphics card like the geforce 256 DDR was just 140 mm^2; a geforce 2 ultra was 90 mm^2; a geforce 4 ti 4600 was 140 mm^2. Performance came from clever architecture and Dennard scaling, not being forced into using a massive die size and 200 W. That's what really drove up prices.

[@theunconventionaldeal3879]

@@soylentgreenb I built hundreds of computers back then, made a ton of cash from Intel and AMD rigs from 98 or so on.

[@Rey999Shin]

This is a classic aviator dream pc. What better time to get lost in time playing games with this during pandemic. In my head the lyrics keeps popping "I'm leaving on a jet plane, don't know when I'll be back again."

[@kamokar]

Previously I asked for stats of CPU and GPU usage, and today you added it. Thank you for that :) As for me this comparison is cool. Quake 4 runs very well on SLI. But other games are strangely bottlenecked, and not by CPU. Maybe they are not optimised for SLI.

[@RETROHardware]

I used games typical for DX10 and from reviews around GTX 2xx cards.

[@AsbestosMuffins]

that is a really crazy motherboard too, like what were they doing back then that generated enough heat to justify heatpipes on the vrm

[@RaPtOr9600]

Haha you will see increased bill for electricity next month, great video. That motherboard was beest and still is.

[@paolbackman651]

Hezký výlet do minulosti, zvlášť na crysis si pamatuju, to byl pěkný prubířský kámen.

[@RETROHardware]

Photo gallery for this video: facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.853689131709047

[@iceManSwag]

Bro put a better CPU in this setup. Quad Core should do better from that time era. Or put this triple SLI into something even more powerful to see how this SLI setup can stretch! I like your videos! Keep up the work!

[@KietNguyen-lp1lv]

How about a qx6850 with 2 radeon HD 6850 in crossfire mode?

[@harryrichardshaver]

I used a very similar setup until a couple years ago.

[@ALIENS1393]

csgo fps???

[@mipa3948]

To ani nevím že ke Quakeovy 4 existuje dabing.Pracovaly na něm stejně jak k Doomovy 3 Fenix dabing?

[@RealNonsonic]

I just picked up a pair of these GTX 280 this afternoon, I wouldn’t mind picking up a QX6850 for a build video I plan to do.

[@richardworden9747]

Look into a Q9650 . You can pick one up at a low cost and it's a great deal .

[@no_one_gaming8184]

Great 👍

[@blackpanther50]

the setup keeps you warm in winter!

[@bloeckmoep]

And baked in summer!

[@SimpleoN69]

@@bloeckmoep lmao

[@jakegarrett8109]

No joke, I’ve ran Crysis and then turned off the monitors so my PC kept me from freezing to death in the winter: 4x Fury crossfire with Threadripper 1950x at 4.2 GHz, which I also had running several handbrake batch file encodes at once while it was gamin like I normally do, overclocked it was using 1.7 kW of power thanks to 2x SuperNova 1300 PSUs feeding it, and why double PSUs? Well it’s my Halloween build in a vampire style casket so you gotta go duel 13’s, and also if I wanted to swap out my cooler for liquid nitrogen cooling I’d probably need that 2nd PSU anyways.... but yeah, it’s a great silent heater, and actually highly efficient at like 90w idle consumption which is actually like the same as what my monitor setup uses with 3x 4k monitors, so really pretty efficient just has insane performance at a relatively low cost with the GPUs costing like the same as a GTX 2070 for all 4x but with the performance of roughly 2x Titan RTX in most of my games. Very fun performance powerhouse, haha! Also keeps my feet warm if I run some P95 or Furmark to heat up my cold legs in the morning, haha!

[@amarah324]

remember when gtx 280 was the monster and core 2 extreme is like a dream in having.

[@Jimb0ss99]

Nice Video! Love the retro setup from that era

[@quake9091]

you're my favourite im collecting things like you but my collection is very empty...

[@_Tualatin_]

Use ,,, pls

[@wowitsshit9734]

I sold most of my collection on eBay now.

[@wishusknight3009]

@@wowitsshit9734 I have been widdling mine down as time goes on. Keeping the stuff I know I will use. And generally keeping only individual parts rather than whole systems.

[@gurkeeimer866]

Me: Mom can we have sli? Mom: We have sli at home The sli at home:

[@8mosquito890]

Me : Mom can we buy videocards for a sli? Mom : we have videocards for sli at home Sli videocards at home :

[@vldmrvslv]

3x Gts 250

[@neilsimpson79]

I had 3 9800 BFG oc's in sli on my old i5 750. Was a beast of a thing but the power bill was always shocking

[@evoluer1366]

awesome collection, crazy tests) good luck, in future videos

[@Tranvu2410]

5:14 full throttle, i like :D

[@kalklod5027]

oldschool... past dream setup... legend.....

[@whoevertf]

Nice work on the video. I am not super impressed by the results considering how insane of a setup this was. Bet it would have cost an equally insane amount of cash at the time.

[@mirospool6992]

Týýýývole ten QUAKE v češtině NICE :-D

[@AJDOLDCHANNELARCHIVE]

The sound of those things running remind me of the scene from Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace.... "IT'S WORKING!....... IT'S WORKING!!!!"... with Anakin in the podracer haha...

[@MrKillswitch88]

I used to run two of these back in the day on a modded xfx 780i, pencil mod for the LLC and upgraded the chipset cooling that being a drilled all copper socket 478 cooler along with a drilled all copper 370 cooler.

[@troglodude980]

God gpu shrouds used to be so fucking tacky

[@thiagolemos3225]

Esse ficou show de bola! Lembrando que pra época, só a galera entendia bem de Hardwares que tinha esses PCs

[@deathtoy101]

i can hear the fans all the way from here

[@feche86fge]

Seeing your vid made me remember have to check if the 4870x2 still working.

[@appiuss5042]

Good sli retro, amazing video as always bro. Greetings from Argentina ✌

[@eduvancauteren]

Another one from Argentina! Keep up the good work 🤘

[@enricofermi3471]

To be fair, I'm not a fan of multi-gpu solutions unless there's no other way to reach desired performance. Had my fair share of SLI with 2x GTX Titans (very first genereation, Kepler architecture, 2688 shader processors), which at the time were probably the only kind of setup for comfortable performance at 2560x1600 (yes, I had 16:10, and would prefer this ratio to my current 16:9 anytime). So anyways, I had my fair share of compatibility issues, and would not recommend going SLI/CF on a regular basis, unless you already have an 2080Ti, but still not satisfied with performance.

[@juniorhardware5118]

Ei my friend , Brazil love retro hardware, great vídeo!send a hug to all Brazilians in the next video

[@Witq87]

Well, there is something with low GPU's utilisation in 3-way SLI. It's about driver or SLI profile.

[@Skracken]

I think the CPU was not keeping up in some titles

[@Witq87]

@@Skracken That was my third thought about situation but we are dealing with 4 core CPU. In fact you may have right, some of these games prefer strong one core/thread.

[@lakiza55]

You gotta love Stalker man, probably the only game engine ever made that supports SLI/Crossfire, but operates on a single cpu core only. That's quite unique, not good, but unique. And it released in 2009 for chist's sake. I hate you GSC, but i love you for making this masterpiece.

[@MichaelMichael-kv4gp]

@ 3:30 there is a device reporting at 124c which is 255F which is the largest number it can report. We all know about the 256 limitation. So if you see 124c just know it's bugged :)

[@arthurhabibulin8355]

Спасибо за эксклюзивный контент! 😊

[@aceofhearts573]

I wish we had a 3 way Voodoo 2 SLI

[@FOIL_FRESH]

what a great winter pc :D

[@BM-xm1zz]

Probably save on your heating bill with this setup

[@prowlervanwijk5537]

Naah.... Just wait till electricity bill Comes in😏

[@XolaresTiberius]

Wow memories! I ran 2 gtx285 oc cards and core 2 quad qx9650. Was a beast😊

[@patamushka228]

Я почувствовал этот жар через свой монитор

[@chromedonut2441]

I miss these cool shrouds they used to put on graphics cards.

[@lankychristopher9160]

They got rid of them on modern gpu's because they caused the older gpu's to run warm.

[@fiqirr]

That motherboard copper heatsink and ram looks so cool

[@imadewn]

Damn, those old GPUs are so sexy

[@agenda697]

We all love some 3-WAY action ;)

[@extremeoverclockingyobbo5467]

I have a few of the heatsink fans for this mobo. Use em heaps! Good work mate

[@paranaMM]

Isso aí na época, era o pc mais top q tinha!!

[@pandroidyt]

this is a very very well video, thanks for upload. i'm learned very many.

[@EvgeniyRecruit-y9s]

WOW! More such video!

[@Lukson_PL]

E8600 with FSB @ 400-450Mhz or X5270 would be better in this test because many games use no more than two cores so higher clock would be better.

[@SW_491]

hey do u can make most powerful pc in late 2009? example:watercooled gtx 295 3 slot

[@minimal5369]

the only way computer enthusiasts gets a threeway

[@AdockVideos]

Jakmile jsem viděl, že Quake mluví a píše česky, odběr byl jasnej :-D

[@shadyengland2]

The heat pipes and heatsink on the RAM made me lol.

[@Americancosworth]

"How to heat your house 101"

[@zadekeys2194]

Would love to see a comparison between this system and the same cpu + gpu's + a ddr3 based 775 board.. I recon the 800mhz ram is a big bottleneck.

[@DualPerformance]

Faster ram have advantage in the most modern games, like shadow of the tomb raider (ddr2 800 mhz vs ddr3), someone tested it, let me find the youtube link, I also have benchnarks with socket 775 and resident evil 3 in my channel

[@scootbmx01]

You can get 1066 ddr2.

[@ddniUK]

Oh how I wish you had included the CPU load data. Nice video though 👍🏻

[@comicsanz97]

5:15 I can smell that sound

[@davesstudios683]

ty kráso, s těma větráčkama na 100% mi to skoro odpálilo uši :D :D :D

[@samohraje2433]

Blower style chladič docela hučí no :D ale šťastie že sú tu aj další výrobcovia ktorí si dizajnujú vlastné chladenie ktoré je vo veľa prípadoch účinnejšie ale zato ostáva teplo vo vnútri skrinky kdežto blower to vyfukuje zo zadu rovno von , to je jediná jeho výhoda. Ja mám GTX 570 od Zotacu pretaktovanú zo 734 na 910MHz , pamäte z 1700 na 2100 a vetrák mám skoro stále na 100% aby to stíhalo chladit na rozumné teploty vymenil som tam aj teplovodivú pastu a teploty v záťaži klesli z Bluescreenu na prijateľných 85 stupnov.

[@mrN3CR0]

Used to have one of those motherboards years ago that I tried pairing with a q6600 but kept getting the lovely cpuINIT error, was gonna be my first ever sli board and setup too so was massively upset... Very nice to see it using its full potential here :D

[@McLeonVP]

old beast :3

[@icemanx3790]

I remember when I bought my gtx 280 I think in 2008. Crysis on high was no problem 😂

[@VicGreenBitcoin]

Where did you get all that great hardware on your channel?

[@Danik_01]

Это лютая печ🔥🔥🔥👌

[@AeroFix94]

should have used your QX9650 with that setup :D I have the QX6850 with my 2x 8800 GTX SLI setup. A dream build back in the day!

[@evilqtip7098]

I loved SLI on my GTX 970's Noticed the real difference... But my board was a Gigabyte 990X top of the line with pure 16x - 16x PCI slots.. and internal transfer was the fastest a motherboard at that time could give.. Others were 8x 16x so it slowed down...or gave light occasional stutter... So make sure your board is truly made for SLI !!!! Motherboard matters.

[@pedefloful]

I have one motherboard asus striker extreme and go setup with 2x GTX 760 4gb and Xeon X5470 and 8 Gb DDR2 1066 corsair dominator

[@pedefloful]

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[@JamesSmith-sw3nk]

If you play Batman games, run 2 card SLI and use the 3rd card for PhyXs.

[@aero2zero]

What kind of PSU do you use to feed these beasts?

[@RETROHardware]

OCZ 750W

[@mystical4442]

The plastic shrouds and backplates on those cards must be trapping a ton of heat, I wonder how better the card would perform without them.

[@mikebellamy9052]

remember how i get my asus gtx280 back this years 😄 was so happy and play crysis at least average fps

[@erickrene5600]

algo tienes mal en la configuracion o el sli no esta funcionando por que el quake 4 puedo correrlo perfectamente a 60 pfs con la configuracion grafica al maximo 1600x900 con una sola GTX 260

[@ViktorL2000]

Damn, good stove. How many watts does this system consume?

[@АлександрСемёнкин-б8з]

Hot! Hot! Hot! Hot! Hot!

[@chrislamp]

i see you found a way to cope with the quarantine

[@Ortagonation]

We live in 2020, and this guy still lives in 2010

[@AkOyunda]

nice old days 3 top cars sli

[@rzober89biologia]

This is great. Would there be any difference between 800 and 1066 MHz RAM? I am doing the same but with 2x 280 + Q9650 on EVGA 780i.

[@calvitocalvon1711]

Oh my god how much power does that monster eat

[@projection-75-emulation]

5:12 Jet engines: activate? NO---|--------------------YES turn toggle to yes to activate (2 seconds later) NO----------------------|-YES {jet engines activated}

[@girodanoticia-comfrancisco1194]

A.W.E.S.O.M.E!!!!!!!!!!!

[@cybercapri]

You may want to consider the LGA 771 to 775 Tape Mod for this setup, it will allow you to use Xeon's which are far more powerful than the 775's at that time. Google it, it's very popular and easy to do as long as you're very careful because. You do need to cut away the CPU alignment on both sides of the socket or change the alignment slots on the CPU. It's very easy to do but one slip could wreck the MB. I used a single razor blade and slowly pushed it easily into the plastic. It actually cut a lot easier than I thought it would. Enjoy...

[@Kacpertost]

can you make video about hd4830?

[@adelyn8989]

I am just curious on what PSU did you use for this system?

[@zashbot]

Damn I wish my VRM cooler looked like that!

[@maynardcrow6447]

I wish they would put heatsinks like that on motherboards again.

[@pcgamingeconomico3057]

i wonder how these cards would perform with a better cpu. on a dd3 or ddr4 platform

[@wowitsshit9734]

that's an interesting space heater you have setup.