To upgrade or not?

I have twin 7900GTX's in SLI on an Asus A8N-32 SLI Deluxe with an FX-60. How much of a performance gain would I see by going up to a single 8800GTX?

big big....bigger than big

I agree with Zac.
With SLI'ed 7900GTX you should be able to play any games at high resolution(12x10 and above)with high FPS.
So wait a little more (maybe less than a week!)and see how ATI's next generation DX10 support HD X2K blah blah blah...series graphics cards perform.

Good point!
a Core 2 Duo E6420/E6600+2GB PC6400+Gigabyte P965 DS3 will prepare your system for some serious VGA upgrade!

According to the VGA charts on Tom's, at 1600x1200, you would gain almost nothing from going from 2x7900GTX to a single 8800GTX. In a couple of games, the 8800 is faster by 5 or so frames. In others, the 7900s are equal. Yet in others, the 7900s are faster.

The exception is Oblivion, where the 8800 gets approx. 10 fps more at 16x12.


Don't know what res you're at, but unless you can cover the cost of the 8800 by selling your SLI setup, it seems like a waste of money and effort.

Too funny... the guy has a 7900GTX SLI setup and is pondering an 8800GTX and you think he'd be looking at a $200 CPU?!? If he's dying to buy something now, I still say it makes sense to get a high-end CPU. His 7900GTX SLI rig can play every game out there now.

Too funny, for gaming there's really no point in upgrading his processor is my point, twat. Even if he went quadcore now, it would still make no perceivable difference.

At least the 8800 give him DX10 support, a CPU upgrade right now would give him nothing.

I'm glad someone agrees with me! The other guy thinks I'm a "twat"

I would wait as the 7900GTX's are enough for any game. Currently no game needs or can use DX10 so save your money. August is set for the release of crysis so plan upgrading both your graphics and CPU. The 8800 should have a revision and you may see a PCI-X 2.0 mobo.

Save your money and plan for a big upgrade because youll be needing it for crysis.

To answer your question you want see any performance gain as your eyes cant tell if your running at 60 or 100fps. Please dont upgrade your CPU chart points out you loss FPS when switching to Intel at 2048X1536.
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/1 [...] page7.html
Even on Fear with max settings The AMD system get near 9FPS higher. The second benchmark at 2048X1536.
http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/1 [...] page5.html
Point is if you pay a lot for your GPU your not going to play at the low resolutions and most any dual core CPU will fine at 1600X1200 and above.

Well, you'd get my attention more if you called me a "twat" like the other guy did. But yes, I think MOST of us are in agreement that anything less than the best in terms of CPU performance will hold back an ultra-high-end GPU like the 8800GTX.

why not wait till new gpus come out and spend the money on drink,drugs and hookers

What? Why the hell?

FX60 is still a great CPU.

I would upgrade that CPU when time for quad cores really came.

but not at DX10

his current CPU is way good enough for DX10 gaming, his graphics card setup won't run DX10 at all

the most recent games on this test showed only a 2% difference in framerate between what he has now and an X6800, company of heroes shows a 16% FPS increase... which would be imperceptible in actual game play and doesn't justify spending $970 on a CPU
http://livedeviant.com/graphic-car [...] d-amd.html