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8/30/12 at 5:06pm
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Hello, I'm not quite sure what I'm doing and feel a little down. I had a plan the other day and I've already started following through with it.

The idea was to have 2 monitors; 1 for my day to day stuff (a U3011 or the U3013 when it's released) and another for gaming, BF3, CS: GO (BenQ XL2420T) and a nice new desk for them to sit on which I've ordered.

I've heard so many good things about 120hz and my MSI GTX 670 SLI should be able to handle it quite well, but then I read here today that SLI can only do 100hz. Is this true even at 1080p or lower resolutions? Could a driver update from nvidia change things?

What would you guys do, disable SLI and reduce video quality and play at 120hz or play at very high settings at 100hz?

I'm not sure if I should cancel the whole thing and just stick with my U2410.

Any advice would be appreciated.

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post #2 of 6
8/30/12 at 5:08pm
I know that crossfire is capable of 120Mhz and beyond (Owner of Xfire cards) So there's no reason why nVidia would cripple their cards like that, can't be any more useful though.
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post #3 of 6
8/30/12 at 5:33pm
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Thanks for the reply. AMD cards don't work so well with my setup. I'm 99.9% sure it's because of my lack of knowledge when it comes down to overclocking. I was always getting AMD driver has stopped responding with my XFX 6870 and then with a MSI 7970. For whatever reason I don't get this with nvidia.

I read something earlier that the 100hz limitation was due to the SLI bridge connector. I wonder if nvidia will bring out a new one?

rep added fwiw, thank you.
Edited by tiger style - 8/30/12 at 5:35pm
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post #4 of 6
8/30/12 at 8:38pm
My understanding is that it's an Nvidia driver limitation at the moment for 1440p monitors. Think it's capped at something like 85mhz in the most recent bios. Not sure what the cap is for 1080p. There's been talk of a modded driver that might fix this but nothing concrete so far.


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Edited by bern43 - 8/30/12 at 8:44pm
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post #5 of 6
8/30/12 at 8:52pm
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cheers bern43, so at 1080p it's limited to 100hz? I suppose I could live with that and maybe in time nvidia will release some drivers to support 120hz and SLI.

I might just pull on the trigger on the BenQ anyway.

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post #6 of 6
8/30/12 at 9:31pm
I never heard of any 100Hz cap in SLI systems. But even if there is, 100Hz is still a huge, HUGE improvement over 60Hz.

It's like the people who think there is no point having a 120Hz monitor unless they can maintain an unwavering 120fps. Well there is still quite a range of potential frame rates between 60fps and 120fps, all an improvement over 60fps...
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