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Beer With Straw

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Maybe it is that simple. Quad SLI has been around for some years already. Superficially searching: https://forums.oculusvr.com/community/discussion/29918/multiple-headsets-on-one-pc with also noting that these posts were dated back 2016 means that the hardware they used is outdated.


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Also overclocking the CPU? Does it shorten the life of the PC regardless of whether it is done professionally or not?

Like:

AMD Ryzen™ Threadripper 1950X (16-Core, 40MB Cache, Overclocked up to 3.6GHz on all cores)
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Does that mean I can theoretically run 16 VR players on one PC if I could fit 16 friggen video cards in it? :tongue:
 
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meh, I did online chat with Dell, for four VR headsets this was the just some info I was given:


Agent (Mrittunjoy_C): "okay, I would recommend your Dell's Flagship Alienware Area-51 with Dual NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1080 graphics with 8GB GDDR5X each (NVIDIA SLI® Enabled)"

Agent (Mrittunjoy_C): "Feeding these video cards will be an Alienware™ 1500 Watt Multi-GPU Approved Power Supply with modular cabling [****]"





Agent (Mrittunjoy_C): "And powered by the Intel® Core™ i7-7800X (6-Core, 8.25MB Cache, up to 4.0GHz with Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0) + 16GB RAM memory and 512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD (Boot) + 2TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s (Storage)"



Think guy was talking low end system though.


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However, I did indicate the power level power level to something Arizona Sunshine and above. This VR game I believe you can co op with least one other person.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nw5YzBqk01I
Zombie apocalypse and all that...
 
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SLI is on the way out. Fewer and fewer games support it. Even if you can get this to work, it might be good for much else.
 
Underseer said:
SLI is on the way out. Fewer and fewer games support it. Even if you can get this to work, it might be good for much else.
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Erm. :thinking: I actually don't get what you're indicating, crossfire I guess is a similar subject, but I didn't get even all the 2017 games: https://www.game-debate.com/news/10694/complete-list-of-compatible-nvidia-sli-supported-games

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Uh... This may be the 2014 or something, but whatever.

All games work with SLI setups of course but this is the complete list of supported game profiles that should see you gaining a significant performance boost when running an NVIDIA SLI gaming PC...
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Beer With Straw said:
Underseer said:
SLI is on the way out. Fewer and fewer games support it. Even if you can get this to work, it might be good for much else.
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Erm. :thinking: I actually don't get what you're indicating, crossfire I guess is a similar subject, but I didn't get even all the 2017 games: https://www.game-debate.com/news/10694/complete-list-of-compatible-nvidia-sli-supported-games

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Uh... This may be the 2014 or something, but whatever.

All games work with SLI setups of course but this is the complete list of supported game profiles that should see you gaining a significant performance boost when running an NVIDIA SLI gaming PC...
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My information is third hand given that I don't game as much as I used to, but the newer games don't support SLI or Crossfire as much as they used to.

Fewer and fewer gaming systems are being sold with multiple GPU cards. When I read articles or watch videos on gaming builds, hardly anyone is using multiple GPU cards.

And no, I don't have a proper citation to back that up, so feel free to dismiss it if you like.
 
I wonder if artificially high graphics card prices are to blame for this.

Coin miners drove up the price of graphics cards.

That could certainly result in fewer people running rigs with multiple graphics cards.

If fewer people have systems with multiple graphics cards, what incentive do game developers have to support SLI or Crossfire?
 
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Beer With Straw said:
I don't want to go searching for info if you guys can surmise what I'm thinking.

Can this: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3222652/gaming/how-we-hosted-a-star-trek-vr-party.html (the video I guess?)

Be done with this all options maxed out: https://www.dell.com/en-ca/shop/des...jc2LCJPcHRzIjpbeyJJZCI6IlJFRzE1MDAifV19XX0%3D

(Price will go higher...)

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They used four video cards.
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Quad-SLI will do nothing to help with frame rates and playability, and it may actually cause other issues. Get the the best single card you can afford or maybe two and save your money for other things.

Overclocking the CPU and GPU will do no harm as long as you keep things within reason and use good cooling. Within reason would fall under the category of keeping voltage levels to the CPU/GPU in a moderate range, and making sure your cooling can keep the parts at reasonable temperatures under load.

Buying a 16-core CPU will not help you in any way unless you use software that is coded to take advantage of heavy multi-threading. As in solving huge sets of nonlinear differential equations, editing and encoding large quantities of video in real time, etc. If you are just a regular person playing games, buy an unlocked Intel quad-core or hex-core CPU and clock it up modestly for the best bang.

And build your own. It is fun and easy to do and pretty much everything is plug and play. The most time consuming part will be installing the operating system and drivers and patching it, and even that is not hard.
 
atrib said:
Beer With Straw said:
I don't want to go searching for info if you guys can surmise what I'm thinking.

Can this: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3222652/gaming/how-we-hosted-a-star-trek-vr-party.html (the video I guess?)

Be done with this all options maxed out: https://www.dell.com/en-ca/shop/des...jc2LCJPcHRzIjpbeyJJZCI6IlJFRzE1MDAifV19XX0%3D

(Price will go higher...)

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They used four video cards.
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Quad-SLI will do nothing to help with frame rates and playability, and it may actually cause other issues. Get the the best single card you can afford or maybe two and save your money for other things.

Overclocking the CPU and GPU will do no harm as long as you keep things within reason and use good cooling. Within reason would fall under the category of keeping voltage levels to the CPU/GPU in a moderate range, and making sure your cooling can keep the parts at reasonable temperatures under load.

Buying a 16-core CPU will not help you in any way unless you use software that is coded to take advantage of heavy multi-threading. As in solving huge sets of nonlinear differential equations, editing and encoding large quantities of video in real time, etc. If you are just a regular person playing games, buy an unlocked Intel quad-core or hex-core CPU and clock it up modestly for the best bang.

And build your own. It is fun and easy to do and pretty much everything is plug and play. The most time consuming part will be installing the operating system and drivers and patching it, and even that is not hard.
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*ahem* Civilization 6 is one of the few games that benefits from lots of cores (and metric fucktons of RAM).
 
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