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so are you guys sick of r-tx content yet I hope not because we got lots to talk about do you want to be cooler do you want to be more desirable well you're in luck because right now you can own your very own Jace to send swag and immediately be the cool kid on the block max out your sex appeal by following the link down below okay now SLI is something that has been really kind of a point of well I guess non relevancy over the last couple of years because with Pascal they kind of did away with three-way and four-way SLI I used to run 3-way SLI with my nine 80s and my seven 80s and it was kind of a thing where people were like SLI sort of dead Nvidia doesn't care anymore so obviously by them using NV link on these cards which is extremely higher bandwidth than any even HP bridge that were used to in the past we are going to be testing some SLI to see if this is scaling well because with the massive amount of bandwidth now that NV link can carry we're gonna test it but here's the problem I have OCD to a degree and I I just can't do mixed cards I could have taken my 20 TI founders and then taking my triple slot EVGA card and put it on the second slot and it wouldn't have been feared but that's okay because we've got two MSI gaming x-tree is that we're gonna use today custom PCB custom power delivery and a massive amount of cooling so this is the MSI 2080 ti gaming X trio can you tell why they call it trio it's got three fans it is a custom PCB it's got triple power plugs on here so it's got two eight pins and a 6 pin obviously because a beefed-up power delivery massive heatsink as you can see right here it's got a smaller fan in the front a lot of people were like why the smaller fan well this piece is actually removable as you can see on this card I removed it to put in our Envy link bridge there's actually two screws you have to remove to take this piece off I'm not a fan of that because easy to lose easy to lose those screws in that piece or whatever it would have been nice if they had made it so it was just like a slot that could pull in and out just like the cover for the envy link on the founders card but this right here should hopefully give us a good advantage when it comes to the other guys who are gonna be doing SLI videos right now aka Steve gamers Nexus I've come for you with these bad boys and I've got a trick up my sleeve hope you're watching but by the time you watch it's already happened so I also put my X 299 dark from EVGA back on here which has my 18 core 36 thread Intel 79 80 XC there's two reasons why I did that one I mean graphics core is what we truly care about when it comes to the GPU so the CPU gives us a nice combined score for that world record spot which were we're gonna which we're gonna get today but it's more or less I changed this from my 8700 K Maximus board because of these slot spacing the Maximus board has a 4x slot up top and the first 16 X is actually slot 2 which pushed the card down 1 which made it completely sandwich to where the two cards were touching and you could not use it and that config so that's something you need to keep in mind with the beefy size of the cards these days if you are going to be going with an SLI setup definitely not cost effective but the elitist and the enthusiasts out there will probably do it if you if you're pushing these cards up against each other which is very easy with these being two and a half to three slot cards you need to keep that in mind so you need at least a three or four slot spacing we're using 4 slot right here as you can see with the triple card leaves one slot in between now I did do temperature testing with that sandwiched the top card hits 8485 immediately with the fans on 100% bottom card sits in the high 50s low 60s as soon as we space this out with one space the temperature stayed within about 8 C of each other and totally under our thermal limits which we set so as long as you have one space in between them you should be okay so with that let's going to fire this up and let's see how well this is actually scaling we're gonna compare it to our original benchmark numbers of the founders card so with that let's power it up oh look rainbows I put a picture up on Twitter showing the cards and most people were like oh my god the RGB puke blue is so sick of RGB blah you know at this price point if it didn't have RGB I bet you'd complain too so in preparation for these behemoths though I've got my 1600 watt to gold rated PSU but we're not gonna using whole 1600 watts I've got Headroom I've also got a 6-pin PCI Express plugged into the motherboard for supplemental power so that it's not pulling all those watts just through the traces in the 24 pin so it's being directly supplemented to the PCIe which can help with overclocking stability but again I've got a total of 6 PCI Express cables hooked up to this we're also gonna be using precision x1 for our overclocking it's not only we're gonna sli these are overclocking cards if we don't overclock them what is the point of having them custom PC because some cooling plates big-ass heat sinks three fans if we don't actually overclock these cards I mean we're just leaving performance on the table so if you guys want know more about how to use px ones I'm not gonna go into it in this video we did a video about how to overclock our TX cards now you guys can just go and check that one out we go into in-depth on all these different settings what they mean in what they do so I'm gonna go ahead and overclock these cards I mean why the heck not this is an overclocking card so we're going to you can see SLI is enabled and yes it's still called SLI although it is an NV link interface it's still called SLI so that's enabled and of course we wanna make sure our g-sync is off which it is so we're using 4k though because 1080p is usually just straight up a bottleneck even with one card we're seeing some titles pretty much bottlenecking so we're using all the same settings we did in our launch video the only thing we're changing though is temporal AAA because this it even says right on here not optimized for multi card it's not recommended to be used so I'm using SMAW and fatah on this one to give us a baseline just so we know my EVGA r-tx 28 eti XC ultra which is another custom cooler option gave me 65 fps and 4k our founders card gave us 66 so within 1 FPS which is kind of expected so let's see how much we actually gain an SLI is it scaling if it is how much is it scaling by 100 and 4.96 fps we scaled 60 1.9 percent improvement with 2 cards that's actually pretty good some games don't even scale 50% so in shadow of the Tomb Raider we're set to highest settings right now I have a feeling this one's gonna actually be pretty good average FPS 124 so that's more than our baseline tests yes we are overclocked and that's probably why so if we overclock the other card which is about an extra 100 megahertz we might have seen the baseline test go to over 60 FPS which would still be 50 percent of this number so look at 124 fps and 4k highest settings so latest titles that are built around our TX within videos internal promise of making SLI a more relevant thing again appears to be well future facing what if we go back to an older title like rise of the Tomb Raider that's one that was always kind of a show right so our test with the old driver non overclocked on the twenty-eighth ETI ultra was 80 we got one forty four point eight one here so again good for 144 Hertz 4k panel not perfect scaling but definitely scaling nonetheless temperature-wise our card reached 62 C but you know what I think we can get the temperatures even lower nowhere yet Steve huh I bet you didn't see this coming okay so Jays chiller 2.0 is now ready to fire up but at stock speeds right now you can see our CPUs at 20 °c PWM or powers at 18 see this motherboard itself is at 16 but we're gonna go straight to 3d mark with our overclocks and our GPUs and we're gonna see exactly how we do all right so 13,000 789 in time spy extreme a graphics core 14,000 532 that is massive and times by extreme and if we go ahead and compare these results online times by extreme for two cards scenario number one Oh yet Steve hmm I should probably show Doug he's probably gonna smash my score best way 13700 89 combined score gets us number 1 in time spy extreme we are gonna go ahead and just run through the gambit we're gonna go through all the time spies and all of the fire strikes and see where we land obviously we're gonna be in the top very high percentile because not many people are running this config so as long as people are taking time to get their setups going I'm gonna take the leaderboard while I can so I spent the last couple of hours now benchmarking and tweaking and tweaking the cards that is SLI often you get a lower clock speed in SLI than an individual card so one thing to keep in mind so here is what we ended up with if we go over to 3d mark time spy extreme and we go to two times or two cards look at that world record holder for the next day or two until the overclockers get their sli bridges 14,000 zero for three is my score our graphic scores a fourteen thousand eight eighty four with a cpu score of ten thousand six thirty eight times by extreme two card another record holder for me right there by quite a bit actually two thousand six hundred and seventy points ish higher than number two right there again if you look at our combined our total score so you can compare your graphic scores we have this test we got a graphic score of fourteen thousand eight eight four and a CPU score of ten three six eight so moving on to fire strike ultra once again world first by about eight hundred points right there seventeen thousand 633 graphics thirty four thousand nine hundred and sixty six visit score now this is where the anomalies start because I know there are settings if the tweak and stuff and I've kind of followed the guides on what to do with your hyper threading and when to enable it when to disable it which course is disabled when you're running the 79 80 XC cuz it's it's kind of a buggy test once you go to the high frame rate test like fire strike extreme and fire strike I'm straight up bottlenecked and fire strike and I don't know how some of these guys are doing it so let me show you fire strike if we go over here to two cards you can see my same setup even though these are the same processor and these are running to 1080 T eyes I drop all the way down to number 24 and when I compare the results my graphics core and my physics score is significantly lower than all of these guys right here so I'm not insure exactly what's happening I don't really care to be honest the extreme stuff being a GPU more of a GPU centric test that's all I care about it'd be nice to get higher on there but most people don't run fire strike anymore it's a 1080p test but if we like a fire strike extreme I'm number slinky I'm coming for you man I'm less than 200 points behind you I've been trying to get this score for the last hour or so and I've kind of given up for now I'll come back and join this later but our graphics cards never got hotter than 40 see under load and our core clocks during these tests were sitting it shows max 300 now because it's gone off the chart but our our max core clock was sitting at 20 115 that's what we were able to get 2115 megahertz and then of course it drops down so sli with 28 ET i that's a ryan i didn't even know it now I'm a poet that's okay I'm gonna head and keep going hey so 28 et is Li is definitely scaling and stuff like 3d mark we're just having to see if game developers actually take advantage of it but in the meantime having some of these top 10 and top one whatever scores is actually kind of fun at least until someone comes and knocks me off and it's probably gonna be Steve definitely gonna be kingpin and all these other guys thanks for watching guys and as always we'll see you in the next one they're the the TIE fighter is very high pick mine you reading it's like a mind-reading hat