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so behind every great broken promise around a tech yeah City there is a great story and today I'm gonna be telling that story of the GTX 690 s and why it's taken me so long to start testing them against the GTX 1080 Ti there is a little bit of a backlog around this story it's not just the fact that I have tunnel vision but that is one factor we'll talk about that a little bit later here today there's also an array of other things that go on behind the channel that make making these videos sometimes a thing that you just have to backlog so strap on in grab a tub of tea I'll grab a tub of beer or even pull up a green hand gaming video whilst you're watching this video if that's more your thing and let's get this story told welcome back to tech yes City this is Brian coming to you guys today with that video where things behind the scenes here kind of get a little bit tricky sometimes and as I spoke about in the intro I am got this thinking where I can only get one thing done at a time so the story behind the GTX 690 s initially was that I had them in that Zeus micro ATX motherboard and it wouldn't detect the Quad SLI just wouldn't work at all and that's because the motherboard inherently didn't select Quad SLI it didn't have it from the get-go and now back through time there wasn't many boards that supported quite SLI was actually more of a rarer feature when I started looking at what motherboards actually supported this because a lot of the boards will only support up to three way a lot of the times or even two way and then they'll use that SLI advertising and usually you can tell four board supports Quad SLI because it will have a lot of PCIe slots on board but that's generally not an indicator of it being fully compatible but anyway the motherboard that I had for testing on I put that out for sale and I was like okay I think this computer will sell in a couple of weeks and it actually sold the same night I listed it and I was like oh damn you know cuz me being you know hustling for my money and actually having every month I gotta get parts hunting I've got to make money on the side because YouTube advertising money isn't that good at all as soon as a sale comes up like that this guy came around he paid the full asking price and I was like damn I cannot turn that down I'd be stupid to turn that down cuz usually you get haggled down at least a couple of hundred dollars this guy came around I seen the PC loved it buying it and so that motherboard the z97 ex that I had that was gone and suddenly that was the only board that would support GTX 690 s in SLI which essentially the GTX 690 itself is a card that has two GPUs six 80s dies on board and so you've got Quad SLI technically and so what I was looking for was a motherboard that supported Quad SLI and it actually it was a little bit of a journey because of course I don't want to overpay for something with one's asking you a ridiculous amount of money and it started over the last couple of months where it was like okay I've got this motherboard I can buy but I don't have the CPU for it or I've got this CPU but I can't find the motherboard for him this big back and forth tug-of-war between trying to find the right set up to support quite SLI and then it just happened that I was working on this C 370 here and that read in the manual support squad sli and i was just it was at that moment I felt like an idiot I was like okay I've had the solution here all along and not only that it's literally the best solution because we've got the 8700 K in their clock to five gigahertz and I thought well this is the perfect solution but it wasn't all bells and whistles because literally right as I'm setting up my Nass and get everything set up this motherboard here a USB port died and all three of the onboard necks they're all blown out so I've got to do a lot of diagnosing with that probably switching off all the USB ports see if I get those necks back up online but everything on that side died even a solder port blew out as well there's a really bizarre problem I've got no idea why this happened and so I'm left here trying to get my SLI to work because it's only saying like two of the four GPUs and it detected all gtx 690 s in Windows it's listing them as four cards and so it's seeing them it's just not enabling me to put them in sli so I went the boss changed heap of settings I then took out my capture card I then took out the Intel 10 gig NIC that I had in the PCIe slots because I needed my internet and I put in this old-school 2006 NIC that I picked up picked it up absolute bargain I think they're off like 5 bucks back in the day I even just hacked it up to fit it in a bill because I remember I had an Intel motherboard from MSI and and lightning storm the NIC blew out so I bought that as sort of like a makeshift until I could get my internet back up and running again so yeah I've had that NIC all along it just happened to be that I put that in the top one speed slot and everything started working so that was really good news and when I put that in and got me into networking I could then get Quad SLI working so I was home and host and now what you see behind me is a computer now that's downloading all the games so I have already tested the firestrike scores the GTX 690 s as crazy as this experiment is going to be is actually pulling off an extremely good synthetic score in 3d my fire strikes so the max potential of these graphics cards are only going to be limited by either the driver or the game support or the actual vram buffer itself so it does have a 4 gigabyte vm buffer on board but generally you got to have that with sli and since you're going Quad SLI you've got to put a quarter of that eight gigabytes of total VM available and yeah you're left with a very big limit on all those cuda cores and all that potential power however we will be doing the testing and we'll be testing out five games that do have Quad SLI support and then I will be testing that against the GTX 1080 Ti and so we're gonna get to the bottom of it and of course the fact is with these gtx 690 i did pick them up for a bargain so we got them for under $300 Australian which would be like 240 USD maybe 230 USD so at that price we're gonna see what this performance can pull off and what its limitations are in the next video that video be dropping tomorrow so stay tuned for it but really when it comes down to it the broken promise does have a story and it's one that's sort of with me personally being someone who knows all these videos I promised in the past I just have to find the time to get them ready and it's actually funny because with the GTX 690 s as well there's another limitation that is only one of the monitors will let me actually have GTX 690 s working properly and that's because they're at the back they've only got DVI ports in like a mini DisplayPort and how many display four it will only support the higher resolutions of these monitors behind me so there's lots of troubleshooting going on as well and that all takes time so I know this when I do these projects that I promise I kind of know that they're gonna take time and of course with the other stuff that I have to get done around here the monthly part Hunt's the new product reviews and all the other videos I find myself having to take time out to get these promises done but with this new studio now I know that backlog is gonna get fulfilled this is that first video that for some reason a lot of people have been requesting these gtx 690 s get tested and they get tested really fast so this got pushed up to the top of the queue I know there's those other videos and I know they're gonna come so stay tuned for them I hope you guys liked this video if you did then be sure to hit that like button if you want to see more storytelling like this then be sure to drop a comma in the comment section below and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peas now for now bye damn that's the first video I've done ever where I haven't started or stopped and whatever there's no bloopers today guys you're out of luck no even the monitors stayed on the whole time I didn't have to move the mouse not even have to do that damn must be because I'm drinking no coffee see one week I've been without coffee now I quit coffee I'm not drinking anymore just it's out of my life forever not drinking another drop of coffee no not doing it I know the consensus is you have to drink coffee it's really good for you but for some reason I drink it and I feel like a zombie it any good for me I'm stopping brothers I'm quitting done not gonna stop drinking alcohol though no that's good for you also another thing came to mom I was drinking tea and watching the green hand gaming video we actually did say we would collabing the future when this studio was finished so Tim I hope you can come up to the Gold Coast and we can give the viewers the audience and epic collaboration I just remember that then let's get it done