General computer talk/advice

Jammed a bunch of GPUs in my system, top card is the 290x I just picked up, then my 390 that I've had for a while and on the bottom is a 7600gt, being squashed. Had to make the 290x my main GPU as it just wouldn't fit down bellow as it lacked clearance. Had to take the hard drive tray most of the way out when installing too as the card is about 1mm shorter in length than the case
I also added another fan just infront of the hard drive tray to blow air across the GPUs and out the back, seems to work really well with the 290x topping out at ~78c and the 390 staying ~65c, so not too far off single card temps.

Had to upgrade my 750w PSU to a 1000w to power all this stuff too. People aren't kidding about the 290x kicking out some heat, its a triple fan GPU with more space than my 390 but still runs like 15c hotter all the time. That aside its great for rendering and gaming now though.

Before and afters




My feets will never be cold again

 

Git on my lvl m8. dual psu. looking to add another gpu. and then another. but i gotta buy 10 dollar risers if im to do that. My room gets very toasty

dual gtx 760, gtx 660 and r9 390 on top.

 

o.o damn thats pretty insane

I was really thinking about the dual PSU idea at first to mess about with it but the mess under my desk that would result would be crazy, I cant do any more than 3 GPUs anyway though as I'm all out of PCIe slots lol.

 

Just a question will that work with a Nvidia 750ti and a Nvidia 480 together and also whats the benefit of doing it?

 

Can't use mismatched cards for sli gaming. Can only use them for simultaneous OpenCL/Cuda. Application limited

 

What is everybody's opinion. I would like to upload beamng and other games that shadow play doesn't support. OBS kills my frame rate.

 

Shadowplay should support anything, the fact that it doesn't work for you is what should be discussed. What happens when you try to record it?

 

Ats runs fine since it is the only 'Good' game. the only problem is the fact that i have to use desktop recording mode to record unsupported games and then crop the recording. obs was the alt solution but it kills my cpu with beamng.

 

Why would you need to crop the video?

 

Then don't use CPU encoding. Your graphics card has dedicated encoding hardware, NVENC for Nvidia, VCE for AMD, and QSV for Intel (graphics). You have at least one of these at your disposal so use one, and it'll greatly improve your performance when recording/streaming.

 

Since OBs kills when recording beamng. Shadowplay had to be used. Since Geforce experience doesnt support beamng i have to record desktop mode. and that records borders and other stuff. @BowlerHatJack

 

Completely false as proven by this which is filmed at 4K thanks to NVidia DSR by Shadowplay:

Shadowplay works with *every* full screen application. Game doesnt have to be listed in GeForce experience.

 

Shadowplay supports any application if you're using it properly, and OBS won't hurt your framerate (any more than shadowplay) if you're using it properly. So you're not using either properly.

Did you heed my suggestion? You need to set up OBS, the default settings aren't very good. Select some sort of hardware encoding and a medium-quality-medium-filesize encoder preset and you're good to go.

Also, Shadowplay will need to have Desktop Capture enabled for borderless fullscreen.

 

i guess ill be play beamng with full screen then.

 

Until the rest of the parts to build my PC get here, the most powerful computer I have is my RasPi. LOL

 

What is everyone's opion on the Logitech G910 Orion Spectrum?

 

Guess who's got a new PCIe add in card



Its the bottom one, a 4 port USB 3.0 type A card. I do not have a single spare slot on the back of the computer now. I guess Asus deserves a shout out for making a motherboard that has taken everything I could throw at it from a physical ports perspective.

 

Do you even have the PCIe lanes to run all that without your main GPU being seriously bottlenecked?

 

Yeah, Seems to be fine. No slowdown that I have noticed. It only has 16 gen 2.0 lanes too.

PCIe is really damn fast, while many GPU's advertised that they had gen 3.0 x16 connector the reality is that they can make do on far far less than that, even x4 2.0 is fast enough (I presume crossfire needs quite a lot of connectivity though).

However I guess the physically large connector prevents sagging from being as bad as if they had used a smaller one.

It has 2x gpu, 1x usb3 hub, 8 channel soundcard running from the PCIe. The 2 port USB 3.0 slot came with the motherboard and runs from a usb 3.0 header on the motherboard, not PCI/PCIe.
It also has 2 HDD's and 2 ssd's and a dvd drive connected to it as well through the sata controller.

 

I was working on a classmate's "new" computer, cleaning it, getting it working. He got it from a family member and it's old... It has a C2Q that's had overclocking done to it, as well as two 9800 GTX's that are supposed to be running in SLI, but that was incredibly finicky. I will need to get that working tomorrow.