GTX 295 SLi on Core i7 RIG

GTX295 SLi on Core i7 Platform Scores P32573 on 3DMark Vantage

The guys over at Xfastest have been hard at work testing out the upcoming NVIDIA GeForce GTX295 graphics card based on a dual GT200 GPU setup. For this particular setup they have got two said graphics cards for a quad-SLi arrangement on an Asus Rampage II Extreme, featuring an Intel Core i7 Extreme 965 overclocked to 4.19Ghz. The graphics cards were overclocked to 705Mhz (core), 1480Mhz (shader), 1250Mhz (memory). The test was run on 3DMark Vanatage's Performance setting and gave a GPU score of 35711, leading to a total score of P32573. These scores look promising as the tests have been run on pre-release drivers which will not yet be fully optomized, if you want to try out these drivers, they can be found here, obviously these are pre-release beta drivers, so use them at your own risk.

*www.techpowerup.com/img/08-12-23/nvidia_geforce_gtx_295_3dmv_32k_01.jpg

*www.techpowerup.com/img/08-12-23/nvidia_geforce_gtx_295_3dmv_32k_02.jpg

*www.techpowerup.com/img/08-12-23/nvidia_geforce_gtx_295_3dmv_32k_03.jpg

*www.techpowerup.com/79657/GTX295_SLi_on_Core_i7_Platform_Scores_P32573_on_3DMark_Vantage.html

Gr8 thanks for the updates

that without a doubt will be the fastest rig on earth!!!

wow thats awesome...

Luk at the score(drooling)

Why the F won't they benchmark any games with it? Don't really understand the fascination with 3D mark scores.

Mabe the results were not very exciting. Even with the GTX295 previews, one very fine one by guru3d:
*www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-295-preview/

nVidia has asked them to benchmark ONLY new games.

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Ethan_Hunt said:
Why the F won't they benchmark any games with it? Don't really understand the fascination with 3D mark scores.

Ya'r right Ethan. What's great about 3D Marks

. Surely Games are best benchmarking tools, Ainnit????

*www.fudzilla.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=11100&Itemid=1

The card specs used:
The guys over at XFastest have managed to give the enthusiast world a welcome preview of Nvidia Geforce GTX 295 Quad-SLI performance on the Core i7 / X58 platform. As stated before, these cards are clocked at a 576MHz core, 1242MHz shaders, and consist of 240 x 2 stream processors with 896MB x 2 of GDDR3 memory clocked at 1998MHz.

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I wonder how many fps Crysis would deliver on this.

Nearly double of usual, but at 2560x1600, there wudn't be any increase, cuz even a 4.2GHz i965 is a bottleneck.

At full reso, I don't think crysis could do anything more than 35. (with full AA and AF)

No, it'll remain at 13-14 cuz it's a CPU bottleneck even with a 4.2GHZ Core i7 965