will 2 6800xt match a 7900gt?

No sane person would take the SLI 6800XT's over the 7900. Its that simple.

]Exactly. 7600GT SLI might come close, but I'd still take the 7900GT. And then get another 7900GT and do SLI for less than one 7900GTX.

oh shyt... another post like the "SLI 7300 512mb better or one 7900gt"

First SLI or CX is a waste then 2 6800 doesn't come close to a 7900GT and if you want SLI buy one 7950 GX2 that would run all games and you don't have to upgrade like in 3 or even 5 years!(only buy one more to goe SLI so you don't loss performance beside in that years this card will be like in $90 and thats all )

sorry lol no more i promise i think i have the idea now

2 x top of the line 6800s, the 6800 ultras are < 1 x 7800GTX < 1 x 7900GT

Needless to say, 2 x 6800xt wont even come close to a single 7900GT

With a simple Voltage mod, 7900GT will match performances of a 7900GTX but of course if you have the money, you can jump straight into a 7900GTX!!!!

Some stock overclocked cards have had problems, but they're problem free for the most part.

I can't speak for other makers, but over on the Evga boards 79XX series cards are failing left and right. There's people on their 4th-5th RMA'd cards.

Everyone says that, can anyone prove it? Has there been benchmarks? I want to see them. I don't know squat about video cards but I also know I don't believe anything anyone says over the internet..

I know for a fact that a single 7900 GT will beat two 7600 GTs (I've seen benches, if you need to see 'em too, google it)

I also know that the 7600 GT is about as fast as a 6800 Ultra, which is much, much faster than a 6800 XT.

So it's common sense.

blah blah blah Talk talk talk no benches still?

K thx. Until then I doubt. There's my common sense

Good advice!

the 7900gt pwnes 2 6800xt's, it would have more than double the pixelpipelines, because i believe the 6800xt has 8 pixelpipelines, and then sli doesnt double performance, it just increases performance by a meer 5-30%, in other words, its best not to get sli right away, if u are smart u buy a 7900gtx or x1900xt and then when the next gen cards come out and the 7900's and x1900's drop in price, like MAJOR drop in price, u sli so u dont need to go spend money on cards that will become obsolete in a few years, u save money, and i dont see how u come out losing, because any game runs on a x1900, 7900gtx at full settings now, theres no need to have sli!

6800 GS's get beat by a single 7800gt.....

http://www23.tomshardware.com/grap [...] 2&chart=79

Look at this link: http://www.hardinfo.com/show.asp?page=6462

The 6800XT is pulling a huge 8 fps. If you struggle to find it, just look way down in last place on the first chart. Lets just say you get more than lucky and double your performance with SLI. You are now = to a single 6800GT. 6800GT SLI only added 10fps making for 26. And as you can see, a single 7900GT wasted 6800GT SLI by double the framerates.

Do you still need to see SLI 6800XT vs 7900GT, or can you use the brain God gave you to figure out which is better? Study the numbers:

6800XT 8 fps
6800GT 16 fps
6800GT SLI 26 fps
7900GT 60 fps
7800GTX 47 fps (a little below reference 7900GT)

OMG 8 fpos thats crazy......lmao, go with a stock overclocked 7900gt

OKAY OKAY OKAY SO I WAS OWNED.


DRAG ME THROUGH THE MUD WHILE UR JUMPING UP AND DOWN ON MY LOW FPS HEAD IN CSS.

I have to admit, I had this beastly master plan to buy two of these cheaper cards and sli them and have a monster FPS machine. Then when you crushed my hopes I faught to regain my FPS dreams of a dual cheap VGA card monster...

/me kicks dirt

You win, I suck.

Bro, are you kidding us here
You have to realize that older cards do not have certain features and key hardware, than todays modern cards, not to mention clock speed and arcitechtural designs. The answer is obviously the 7900gt, even if it only has 256mb of onboard ram. The newer tha betta
BTW, what makes you think that 2x 6800xt could overpower the 7900gt??
Just curious

wow, you would really be pissed off if you got two 6800XTs. Then you'll be even more owned.

Hey, congrats. That is an awesome card for oblivion... great deal, too. Open box?

Nice, you're really going to enjoy the X1900, million of generations ahead of two 6800XTs.

You know, I see what you mean! Everyone talks about Conroe vs FX62 with Conroe winning, we've all seen the benchmarks. But has anyone bothered to do any comparisons between Conroe and a 486DX?

I haven't seen any benchmarks for it yet - the 486 could well be faster.


(Moral of the sarcastic rant - use common sense, some things you can know without benchmarks)

oh shit, first i still have my old Voodoo2 card, now i even look worse. Yes, i admit, i still have my 486DX cpu