Computer Setup

You wallpaper my friend, how do I get it?

Love me some Scroobius Pip. And I'm not a rap guy at all...

Who are you and why are you saying this on everything I post?

A new comment troll, by the looks of it. Only been around for a day, so don't think it's possible for it to have commented on everything.

He has two accounts. smellystar and starsmelly. I'm not sure why he enjoys doing this.

Well I wouldn't worry about it. He's just collecting downvotes.

That's a sweet looking set up. Is there a particular reason you went with that card instead of just doing SLI for 2 different 760's, because that's essentially what it is, right?

Possibly a matter of space, and if I remember correctly, a lot of games don't support SLI and the mars (I think) doesn't have that problem.

It's like a 7990/690 - two GPUs, one card, recognized as two GPUs by the system.

Well, IIRC these perform slightly better due to the decreased latency between GPUs. Data from two wholly independent cards in SLI has to deal with two physical connectors as well as much longer wiring, increasing latency (albeit not by much) whereas a dual-chip single-PCB card like this benefits from an on-board low-latency bridge chip with far shorter wire traces between GPUs. If I've got my mental diagram right, in theory it reduces the load on the CPU's PCIe controller ([EDIT]: or the north bridge on AMD chipsets) by offloading some of the bridging and cross-card communication functions to a dedicated chip.

Unfortunately, any noticeable benefit from shorter latency, if there is any, is negated by the slower clockspeeds that a dual GPU card has to keep the heat down.

You are my hero. this is SWEET looking!

How do you like that case? I was looking into that one for my first build? Is it good airflow, noise and building wise?

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