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hitman27   06-13-2007 at 04:31:40 AM

I am building a new system and I didnt know if two Geforce 8800GTX's will really make much of a difference on some of the Direct X 10 games coming in the future, such as Crysis. Do you think having two 8800GTX's will stay in power over one newer card that comes out later? Thanks for your help!

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PCKid777   06-13-2007 at 05:45:15 AM
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Better off buying one 8800GTX and waiting until Xmas, as I've heard of the 8900 (?) supposedly debuting around that time.

Besides, unless you are powering dual displays or some insane 24in+ monitor/TV, I don't think you'll need two.

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Heyyou27   06-13-2007 at 06:49:46 AM
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Better off buying one 8800GTX and waiting until Xmas, as I've heard of the 8900 (?) supposedly debuting around that time.

Besides, unless you are powering dual displays or some insane 24in+ monitor/TV, I don't think you'll need two.

That doesn't make sense; if he's using SLI he will be unable to run two monitors at the same time.

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PCKid777   06-13-2007 at 06:47:41 PM
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My bad.... I don't use SLi and guess I should not have commented on that specifically. :oops:

Nonetheless, from what I've seen and read, a single 8800GTX is enough to handle very high resolutions with little drop in performance...

Anyhow, you can't really prepare for the future of computers - hardware speaking anyhow. Newer hardware will undermine the present hardware, and if you can't use all that horsepower now, you might as well wait until your system bogs down and then upgrade with the second card, which should be cheaper by that time.

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PCKid777   06-13-2007 at 07:00:34 PM
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Hold on - I just quickly researched SLi - since when can you NOT do dual monitors with SLi????????? One setup has 4 (FOUR!) monitors with 2 GPUs in SLi.

Links:

http://www.slizone.com/object/sliz [...] ary07.html
http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone_rotm_july06.html

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Bronze Graphics badge mousemonkey   06-13-2007 at 07:34:03 PM
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As an Sli user I have found that whilst I can have four monitors running (two on each card) as soon as you enable Sli mode three of the monitors go blank because every thing is channeled into the primary display, just as it's supposed to be. :)

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baddad   06-13-2007 at 08:10:15 PM
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AS a SLI user with two 8800 GTX's I can tell you it's well worth it, or you can play the waiting game some people like to play and miss out on all the great graphics. 8)

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