8800 GTS or 8600 ultra SLI

Guy i have managed some money to upgrade my graphics card from 6600 gt to next gen cards. but I m confused that should i wait for 8600 ultra to arrive so that i can hit SLI of that two, or Should i hit 8800 gts.

If u have any idea of 8600 ultra SLI performance over 8800 gts please suggest.
your suggestions are welcome.

Personally I think buying lower in a range to do multi-gpu never makes since. Performance scaling is rarely 100%, drivers have issues, case management is harder and cost is probably greater.

If you already have the top card and run a big display then by all means add another card.

if its anything like the 6 and 7 series, two low end cards arnt as good one one high end card

http://www.hardware.fr/articles/66 [...] 0-gts.html

some benchs from a french web site about 8600GTS... and 8600GTS-SLI.

8600GTS in SLI is not worth it. a single 8800 gts 320 will blown away the 8600GTS in SLI...

And in some case a single 8600GTS is equal or better than a pair of 8600GTS in SLI.

This is nice suggestion

Word.

there is no 8600 ultra. the highest model in 8600 series is 8600GTS. even 8600GTS SLI will be slower then a single 8800 GTS or nearly equal too. 8800GTS. and two 8600GTS in SLI will be more expensive then single 8800GTS 320MB. i have evga 8800GTS 320 mb superclocked and it rocks man. just go with 8800 series card depends on your budget and you will love it

With knowledge of previous cars, 8800GTS is a better choice.

As a rule, never get two low/mid-end card, always go for the best single card you can afford.

Good choice. 1x8800 > 2x8600

enjoy ur purchase

Thanks in advance

Go for the 320mb instead of the 640mb (Unless you game in silly stupidly high resolutions).

AFAIK there's no difference at that res, although if i were you i would check out a review over at www.tomshardware.com

Just do a search for "8800GTS 320mb Review" and it should come up with it.

1680x1050 does me fine. Plus my monitor was only £200 whereas a monitor capable of displaying 1920 x 1200 will be around twice as much for very little actual gain in picture quality.

I think the rest of the guys are right that there is no 8600 Ultra but i tell you what im doing i thought of putting 8600GTS SLI but then i found out that you can get a 8800GTS 320mb for about 250 to 280 dollars which would be how much one 8600GTS would be im going to run a sli setup with 2 8800GTS 320mb and i might have to get a new power supply because you need at least one really good 700w or just get a bigger one like 850 watt or something like that and the website that has cheap parts is here www.pricewatch.com thats where im getting my 2 cards
Well i hope that helped let me know if you have questions.