Graphics card question

[Red Panda]

So say I wanted to build a super computer, and everything would be water cooled in this dream build, should I go for 2-way titan x pascal sli or 4-way titan x hasswell cards in sli? or should I just buy a pre built 2-way titan x pascal rig from origin pcs?, I know i posted this in another area but i realized I should have posted this here.

[79wjd]

Instead of asking a vague hypothetical question, why don't you just ask specifically what you want to know (and specific details about what it will be doing). 

[Red Panda]

4 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

Instead of asking a vague hypothetical question, why don't you just ask specifically what you want to know (and specific details about what it will be doing). 

it would be used for gaming, video editing, video rendering, and video recording/ producing, thats why I want to know which would be worth it.

[typographie]

Four-way SLI is extremely hard to recommend. The scaling and game support is really poor. Regardless of your budget, it doesn't make a lot of sense to go beyond two-way SLI. So between the two options, I'd say two Pascal Titan X's make a lot more sense.

 

For the record, Haswell is Intel's fourth-generation Core processors (i5-4690K, i7-4790K, etc.). The previous-generation Nvidia cards are called Maxwell.

[79wjd]

1 minute ago, Red Panda said:

it would be used for gaming, video editing, video rendering, and video recording/ producing, thats why I want to know which would be worth it.

6700k/6800k/6900k/6950x + GTX1080 SLI/Titan X Pascal SLI (depending on how much money you have to burn) 

[Red Panda]

Just now, djdwosk97 said:

6700k/6800k/6900k/6950x + GTX1080 SLI/Titan X Pascal SLI (depending on how much money you have to burn) 

 

Just now, typographie said:

Four-way SLI is extremely hard to recommend. The scaling and game support is really poor. Regardless of your budget, it doesn't make a lot of sense to go over two-way SLI. So between the two, I'd say two Pascal Titan X's make a lot more sense.

 

For the record, Haswell is Intel's fourth-generation Core processors (i5-4690K, i7-4790K, etc.). The previous-generation Nvidia cards are called Maxwell.

 

 

Thanks for the responses, but would the 4-way be better if I was only playing games that support 4-way sli or is the 2-way still better?

[RollinLower]

1 minute ago, Red Panda said:

 

 

 

Thanks for the responses, but would the 4-way be better if I was only playing games that support 4-way sli or is the 2-way still better?

the 2-way is still better if you go for pascal cards. Nvidea is really pushing to only have 2-way support, so any future games are not likely to support 4-way SLI either.

if you have the cash, the 2-way pascal setup would be best.

[79wjd]

2 minutes ago, Red Panda said:

 

 

 

Thanks for the responses, but would the 4-way be better if I was only playing games that support 4-way sli or is the 2-way still better?

Basically nothing supports 4-way SLI. Plus, you can't even do 1080/Titan X 4-way SLI. (also I'd take 2 Titan XP's>>> 4 Titan X Maxwells)

[Red Panda]

1 minute ago, djdwosk97 said:

Basically nothing supports 4-way SLI. Plus, you can't even do 1080/Titan X 4-way SLI. 

I am aware, but thank you all so much for the help,but onew other question would a asus rampage V edition 10 be a great mobo for these cards and a 6950x

[typographie]

15 minutes ago, Red Panda said:

Thanks for the responses, but would the 4-way be better if I was only playing games that support 4-way sli or is the 2-way still better?

Well, sure, 4-way SLI does have the potential to be up to twice as fast as 2-way, but only in a best-case scenario. But 4-way doesn't have a lot of best-case scenarios.

 

If you're someone who wants to be able to play any new game that comes out without having to worry about SLI issues, you're going to find that some games run well, some run alright but scale very poorly, and some may stutter noticeably and unpleasantly the more cards are added. In some games, 4-way SLI can actually run worse than 2-way, and for $2000, that's a hard sell.

 

If Nvidia could take four Titan X's and run every new game at 200 FPS at 4K, that would be all over their marketing. Instead they're trying to remove and deprecate the feature.

[Red Panda]

1 minute ago, typographie said:

Well, sure, 4-way SLI does have the potential to be up to twice as fast as 2-way, but only in a best-case scenario. But 4-way doesn't have a lot of best-case scenarios.

 

If you're someone who wants to be able to play any new game that comes out without having to worry about SLI issues, you're going to find that some games run well, some run alright but scale very poorly, and some may stutter noticeably and unpleasantly the more cards are added. In some games, 4-way SLI can actually run worse than 2-way, and for $2000, that's a hard sell.

thank you so much for the help typographie