Triple SLi or 9800 series?

Just food for thought this. A collegue at work needs to upgrade his PC as in the whole lot. I.e motherboard processor, RAM and Vid card. Do I go for 8800GT in SLi or even triple SLi or wait until who knows and get the all singing and dancing 9800 Series?

Any thoughts!!!

Just for the record my P4 3.0Ghz and 7800GS+ are getting 22fps medium settings in Crysis. Clearly not enough to enjoy.

3 cards in SLI may be the dumbest waste of money since investing your 401k in Enron.

Dont bother giving an explanation then? At 1920x1080 infact it scales extremly well some getting 2.7+ so, yeh, what was your reasoning again?

Just get 2x 8800GT in SLI, make sure they are overclocked to like 670mhz+ core and with a big memory overclock of 1950mhz+ too.

SLI is set to become extremly effective on crysis thanks to nvidias just released drivers and a crysis patch just coming out, it will handle high settings easy and SHOULD ,but no1 knows yet, be able to manage to run it in very high.

Pointless to even think about 8800 series card when you have P4 3Ghz, if u want your powerful new card to actually perform, I suggest you switching to at least dual*core CPU (e6600 or better).

Wait for the 9800. Then get 2 of them, one, then the other later on.

Sounds like someone didnt read the original Post.

You cant say wait for 9series nobody has any idea when it will be out it could be 6months!

Stupid advice!

8800GT can actually do triple SLI thru the PCI-E slots however im guessing that this wont offer any significant improvement at all....

Might though on PCI-E2, who knows.

You can only do Tri-SLI if you got a board with a 680i or higher chipset, the board must have
3 PCIe x16 slots and the only cards that can be put into a Tri-SLI config are the 8800GTX and Ultra.
The reason is they have 2 SLI connectors instead of 1.

And here are some benchmarks

Tri-SLI benchmarks

man, you really need to think about a system overhall before upgrading you graphics card. you would only be wasting money if you bought a new card because the processor you have right now is wayyy too slow and will bottleneck your shiny new graphics card. I suggest upgrading to something like a q6600 (they are pretty cheap nowadays) with at least 2gb ram and a new card.

besides me?

THG, has triple sli from NW falcon

its out there


new 9800 will be $700 the 8800GTX is around $500 give or take $100 depending on the model


i just build a triple 8800GTX with BFG water cooled 650mhz cards - i doubt the 9800 will be that much faster - the new specs show a large increase in processors but that did not help ati at all

i say buy now and game with it!