3-WAY SLI GeForce GTX 680 on Intel i7 920 @ 3.4 GHz 

This seems so modern for this channel lol. Luv it!!! Cheers mate

Now you can Play Microsoft Flight Simulator with real jet engines

Looks like the Perfect Cooling Solution for the RTX 3090 (thicc heatsinks)

My first high end build was an i7-870 with a gtx 680, I can still remember when those cards came out like it was yesterday! Thanks for another great upload as always!

Beautiful three GTX 680 SOC! The ram and motherboard combo is a very nice looking overkill build!

I loved lga 1366 so much. I ran a Xeon x5670 with 24 GB of RAM until 2019!

Man I always loved this motherboard - Says SUPERCOMPUTER on it. Back then to have all those X16 slots was indeed supercomputer status.

Did they have to power up Chernobyl again just to start up your pc ?

I used to have this motherboard, just had to repair the pins but one of the greatest I've never had. I've put on it a X5650 + two 780Ti for a workstation, that was perfectly stable

Just imagine having 9 slots occupied by GPU’s... I mean, we can do it again nowadays.

amigo este video va allegar al millon de visitas, seguro, te saludo desde argentina ya hace tiempo que te veo

I'm amazed enough you managed to get THREE of those 680 SOC cards! Admittedly, the better sli scaling does have me hopeful for putting my 690 to use at some point sooner rather than later. Even if it defeats the look of them, I just can't help but feel like those cards deserve to be waterblocked for an SLI in order to address the temperature situation fully. But that would require a generous amount of radiator area to do them justice. Then again, I think it was something like... four 480mm radiators could be linked up and then you could use one of those big home size box fans to push enough air. JayzTwoCents had a video on such a project. It was big enough to almost be able to maintain passively on their setup.

Crazy to think that GTX 680s are considered retro now, but that's just how fast the tech industry moves.

Holy crap this looks mental !!! 🤯 Sooooo cool!

Great greetings from Poland!

Damn man, sick build! I must say I love 1st gen i7 boards with SLI on :D Wish I had one of these beauties. Overall great video and nice presentation of this rig potential ;)

So massive the 3rd card rear bracket did not fit in the test bench! Loved the video.

I love the video, that passed the 3 graphics to the fullest ... if now it impacts a few years ago you did not even imagine this. Greetings to all.

I have Asus P6T6 WS motherboard but it doesn't work. It would be amazing if it did. Asus made the best X58 motherboards. Overclocking, feautures and compatability is just amazing

Such a lovely setup! Really nice cards reminds me of the two 680 i was rocking back in 2013 (4Gb Classified), but would love to get my hands on some 680 SOC for collection purpose, the bigger the better!

we will never see these builds again with the new cards because of the death of SLI and that makes me sad

Oh my GOD you have 3 of those cards I've been trying for 2 years to find one to add it to my collection.

Thanks alot 😊 for this amazing video.Socket 1366 platform are my favorite ones.Great work ! Thumbs up !

great video as always. What a flaw, I was expecting not much but a bigger difference in 3x than 1 card. Mafia, even works better with 1 card.

Very good, I heard something like a youtuber said that this is the sound of performance.

GPU shortage and skyrocketing price made us to think outside the box. Content like this should be more in yt.

Круто чувак !!!

I LOVE THIS RETRO BEAST!!! Once premium is always premium!

I am curious about the power draw of those 2 PSU when the thing is running. Total system draw at idle, gaming and benchmarking would be nice to see. TBH 3 GTX 680 phat bois!!! .

Those gtx 680 back in the day were like.. gold

To think that all of these equipments could be easily defeated by GTX 1660 ti is just mind blowing how Technology has come

That's insane, love it 😁

I have that mainboard in storage. Loved that system and set quite a few records with it way back in the day.

Very cool seeing a triple card setup .

3:08 look at that rows of fans, and look at that beautiful ram this is amazing, 3:45 and we have lifoff :) And what is funny in my country 680GTX is still sold for descent price, people do use them.

love it, yourur finest work yet.

that is so cool ^^ i still have my i7 920/x58 sabertooth in my 2nd pc they still doing well =)

I can feel the wind from here.

Puts, eu era louco por uma placa dessa, mas além da dificuldade de encontrar, era caríssima. Tive que me contentar com uma GTX 670 blower a época.

i was waiting for this

неплохой обогреватель =)

Woah, these 3 GPUs are bigger than my old pc lol

Эта сборка - произведение искусства! Мое почтение!!!

Sweet MOTHER of Jozep! it's been a long time to get all 3 same cards..

3:44 FWOOOOSH Also never knew mafia 2 had negative scaling with sli enabled

Nice video, and those temps are not as high as i would expect. I was thinking that middle card would be totally starved for air and get 80c+ easy. You should have also tested he 3rd card as dedicated physx card in the games that didnt use it very well.

Крутой Пылесос ))))

Built a bugdet system for my nephew a couple of months ago, had an I7-970 six core cpu in it, the same model AIO as in the vid, 24Gb Ram, SSD's and a RX580 I got at a reasonable price.Performed quite well for gaming actually, despite being over a decade old by now :)

sounds like a server when you turn it on for a second

Awesome hardware and benchmarks!

My head says: why would anybody even do this. My heart says:, shut up you fool this is freaking awesome. Absolutely love it man, great work 👍❤️

damn, boy, very nice hardware! I'm soo fucking jealous!! Great video 🔥🔥👌🏼

The i7 920 will forever be the most legendary chip IMO... What an incredible jump in performance 10 years ago it had over the infamous Q6600

great job comrade

You should pick up an x5675... They're 6c/12t, really cheap, and you can overclock them to like 4.6ghz. You just need to add the xeon microcode to the bios and it's a good idea to patch the bios for vulnerabilities as well anyways

3:45 - just like Starting up a Formula 1 Engine :D

While this is a dream build for me, it's not exactly what one would define as "retro" hardware. I mean, my current rig is running an i7 950.

As cool as it is, you can really see why they discontinued SLI, not only is it expensive to get a single GPU, maintaining usable temperatures and low noise levels on multiple GPUs is impossible. For the price of getting the game to run 100% faster with SLI, you might as well get a new PC every 2-3 years to run it 100% faster.

I wonder how those cards perform with 5 Noctua fans, and blowing air towards the motherboard instead.

Ótimo Vídeo! Great video.

Fits my final opinion on SLI/Crossfire, at least it looks badass because it only works in *some* benchmarks haha. I've tried 4+ generations of cards, same results

"RETRO HARDWARE" and I am still rocking a 660 Ti PE/OC hahahaha Loved the video!!

Still rocking my i7-920XM in my Alienware M15X today :) it's a great cpu

Wow great GPU temps my gigabyte GTX 275 SOC with aftermarket zalman cooler with 2x120mm fans runs around 69c in a very well cooled custom case

do this sli setup with 3 GTX 480s love it keep it up man Thanks.

This pc is the final boss of the very last lan party

В сталкере должно быть 500фпс, но 1 ядро ток, тут надо гнать до 7Ггц

bloody hell these are rare cards, I wish to have one

one of the problems is that everyone tests only games on the PC, but they forget about professional software (for example, scene reder in 3d packages or video editor rendering, and others)

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Really appreciate the minimal speech style of your videos. Most channels make videos where they constantly speak with a monotone voice, just pointing out obvious and useless stuff, it gets really annoying.

cool looking cards, all you can see looking down on your setup is fans everywhere lol.

u need make one am3+ extreme build

I always used to wonder how people with 2 gpu's kept the second one from cooking. I mean it was pulling heated air from off the back of another GPU.

I have i7-920, didn't feel so good at that time. After buying i7-2600K the differences was like day and night :D, 920 is really slow! In December I bought 5950X, I realize i7-2600K was bottle neck to GTX 1080 GPU all the time. But good CPU for 8 years.

Frametimes would've been nice to see as SLI is notorious for (micro)stutters, otherwise hella interesting video about 3 jet engine xD Used to have GTX 770 2GB (same card with bit higher VRAM clocks).

That motherboard looks the best of the best back from 2009, funny you consider that retro... My 2600k probably its also considered retro, well i'm impressed about the i7 920 no more than 20% usage in all the benchmarks with 3 gpu

Dream setup!

damn this looks epic! edit: btw did you seriously used dual power supplys to power this machine?

I think it would be better if you show difference between 1, 2 and 3 cards. Also would be nice if you use some of top CPU (990x for example). Of course if you have it) Cool content!

Pięknie to wygląda. :)

лютый видос!!!Спасибо! Приятно смотреть Ваш канал

His Neighbour: whos buying jet plane?

WOW, im a retro collector myself, i love watching all your videis for the fact we both collect cool shit, and you have 3 of them, ive been looking for 5 years now just to get one, I have alot of other rare cards like the powercolor dual devil cards the 7970 x2 290x x2 and 390 x2 and 6870 x2, i also have both evga 2win series of cards the 460 x2 and 560 ti x2, also i have the 3 asus ares cards 5870 x2 ares 1, the ares II, and III, and I have only two of the 3 mars cards the gtx 295 x2 mars and the 760x2 mars, gosh i would also kill for the mars 580x2 and I have also have the gigabyte dual 6600 the 3D1 also have the asus dual 7800 ultra with the power plug in the back of the card which is cool, and i also have both evga 7900 gtx duo and 7950GX2, i have many more plus motherboards and cpu's just like yourself, I love hardware and retro hardware, Id love to chat about things and so If you wanna part with one, email me if youd like to sell one, my email is john_shek12@yahoo.com and I will even pay you first for the item before you ship to show trust and that im not trying anything bad, my price is around $800 US, or maybe a tiny little more and im ok to negotiate, just an offer let me know please id love to have one, and P.S. I would love to pick up some other things from you you have so so much cool retro hardware, but i dont think you will part with them, keep up the great videos, i love them I love all your hardware even if I cant get ahold of some of the gems lol :)

Super video !

Good lord. This should be called "How to make your gaming PC sound like a blade server rack".

Such legend

Gota love the old X58 I just finished building my Asus P6X58D-E with Xenon X5675 @ 4.2Ghz with an RX570 24gb 1826 MHz DDR3 triple channel cant go any higher with this raidmax 500 W PSU

Legendary 🤩

that board was probably the only board that could support three of those cards at that time. Im guessing

It's wild to think that the 1650 TI in my laptop can play crisis 2 at 4k with the same 40-50fps lol

Looks like it works great in benchmarks but not so much for actual gaming. It looked like Mafia 2 was actually getting lower framerates in SLI mode.

- How powerful yor computer is? - When I turn it on, lights in my house go out 🙉🙉🙉

seeing "i7" in the title of a video by a retro computer focused channel really hurt me in the feels... gettin old...

those 3 way SLI boards are nuts! HAH! I haven't done SLI since 2x voodoo 2s Just never made any sense to me as, to get a graphics card upgrade all you have to wait for new graphics cards to come on the market and swap out your old one!

Bro it's insane~~~~~!

Try going to a 2-way SLI and try older drivers. Like 331.xx or slightly older. SLI scaling may improve. Also, the cpu and memory is the bottle neck at lower resolutions. Batch 3913 is close to the magic bin. Should be able to get 3.8 easily. 4.0 possibly with decent voltages. Memory...eh. It's Micron and won't scale much. Maybe 8-8-8 at 1600. Or try 9-9-9 at 1866. A nice x5650 would pair nicely here with some BBSE, Hypers or even PSC bins. (Corsair v2.2, v2.1(2K8-8-8), V7.1) QPI matters for SLI scaling....but I'm not familiar enough right now with x58 and a PLX chip inline.

Here before this blows up and im not talking about the gpus

the time has come my all-day use pc is now retro hardware...

I love your channel