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I have an Asus Rampage VI Extreme motherboard and 2 Titan Xp in HB-SLI. HB-SLI supports only dual GPU and I hear 3-way SLI is even more headache than 2-way. Can I add a 3rd Titan Xp without breaking the SLI on the first two? I understand the 3rd GPU won’t bring any additional performance to most applications. I want it for mostly visuals and a little bit of extra performance in Davinci Resolve (which doesn’t use SLI). I guess I could remove the HB-SLI bridge but I play a few games that use SLI.

Thanks for all the replies. What’s the street pricing going to be for 3090? Say from Asus.

Actually, the pricing on the 3090 is very good for me. I will likely sell the two Titan Xp SW edition I have and do two 3090s.

There are rumors about 3080 TI and 3070 TI. Will there be a 3090 TI or a new Titan? Is this likely within this generation and in the next few months?

Resolve 15 works with my current setup of 2x Titan Xp in SLI. They appear as two separate GPUs which I can assign for different duties. Resolve 14 did not see the second GPU if in SLI. I had to disable SLI to solve this issue. I am pretty confident Resolve will be fine with the addition of a 3rd matching GPU. I am more concerned about the Nvidia drivers causing some blue screen because of 2x Titan Xp with SLI bridge and a 3rd one hanging on its own. I guess in the worse case, I can remove the bridge because my gaming usage is %25.

I have 2x Titan Xp GPUs in high bandwidth SLI. I would like to add another Titan Xp as I have an additional 8x PCIe lanes on my Asus Rampage VI Extreme board. I understand this will have zero impact on gaming and many other tasks but per Puget Systems I can get an additional %25 performance on Davinci Resolve. Is it possible to do this while keeping HB SLI on the first two cards? Or I need to remove SLI?

I am looking for a sub 800 rpm optimized radiators for my new build. Hardware labs makes great radiators. Both GTX and SR2 seems to be optimized for sub 800 rpm fans. GTX is 16FPI and SR2 is 9FPI. I will have Corsair ML120s in Push/Pull on these. Plenty of Radiator to keep the fans spin slow. (2x360mm + 2x480mm). Should I go with SR2s or GTXs?

I am looking to upgrade to 2x 2080 TI (s). They will be on a dedicated(CPU on another loop) custom loop with Bitspower water blocks and 2x 480mmx60mm radiators in push/pull. My MB is Asus Rampage VI Extreme. I like the fact that Asus Strix O11G comes with their own Asus Aura RGB headers (for the Bitspower wb) so I am leaning towards these cards. I hear Nvidia keeps the best performing GPUs for their Founders Edition. Would I get better OC performance from FE or Reference cards such as Asus Strix O11G? How about reliability? Thank you

I have two titan XP star wars editions. I made a similar post a while ago as I am in the same camp. My workload is mainly Davinci Resolve which is GPU heavy and some gaming. From what I can gather, 2080 TI is about %25 to 30 better performer than Titan Xp. 2080 is give or take the same as Titan Xp (minus RTX) Titan V is a better performer for other tasks (such as Davinci Resolve) but does worse for gaming. Titan RTX is about %6-8 better than 2080 TI but cost more than twice. I was pretty set on replacing my Titan Xp’s with 2080 TI’s but then the “Super” cards show up. There is no 2080 TI Super but not sure if Nvidia will release it later this year or something even newer. Also keep in mind, you can get another %10 ish performance on each of these card if you overclock/watercool them.

Tng, tos and enterprise were remastered for HD several years ago. All seasons were put out on Blu-ray. Sales figures were not encouraging and they didn’t release voyager and ds9 on Blu hence no remastered copies in existence. Netflix is likely using the early masters made for 480i DVD in the very early 2000s. Is there any streamer which outputs at native resolution of 480i? I don’t think so. The source is 480i however upscaled to 1080p by the mediocre algorithm of the netflix app.

I won’t have any important data on this system. Basically my entire physical movie collection ripped into hdds and I will keep the actual physical media. In case of a drive failure, I will have to rip the entire collection again. It would take me so many hours to do it again but at least I have some sort of a back up. Pretty much, I need a lot of space, decent speed and relatively moderate reliability. To increase reliability, I can consider SW Raid 5 or add a Raid controller and 2 additional drives for Raid 10 (8x 12 TB total). Both options I lose disc space.

Do you recommend none Raid and spread the media to 6 separate local discs on the system?

I have this following hardware I want to use as a plex/media server. The motherboard has 6 sata ports and raid support (probably sw). I am looking for raid 0 only for speed and maximum size. Asus Tuf z270 mk I i7- 7700k 5GHz Quadro 4000 6x 12tb hdd Windows server 2019 Would I benefit from a HW Raid controller card?

I am switching to Corsair Obsidian 1000D and all fans to Corsair ML120 Pro RGB Loop 1: CPU: i9-7980xe @4.4GHz 1.112V “delidded” Bitspower Monoblock for CPU + VRM 1x HWL 420 GTX in Push/Pull Loop 2: 2x 2080 TI FE Bitspower blocks 2x HWL 480 GTX in Push/Pull What do you think? I have an Intel Optane 900P which Bitspower has a block for. Would you water cool it? Which loop would you add it? Thanks!

I would like to make a reasonable compromise and keep esthetics good as well. Corsair 1000D can have 2x 480 or 1x 420 on the front. I believe 8x 120 rgb fans look the best and gives me larger radiator surface.