8800GT Sli'd Vs. 9800GTS - Question

Hey guys hope you had a good christmas and news year etc, i was just in a bit of a debate with a friend over the question posted above. So i figured you're the know-it-all guys with the knowledge and power of all god combined lol which would be better (for gaming) in relation to Performance Vs Price.

PC Spec for arguments sake
E6600
650W Xtreme Stealth
2.5GB PC6400 5-5-5-15
P5N-E SLi 650i

Much love!
Bonse

agreed^^
also remember that SLI doesnt always double the performance:
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/foru [...] sfire-faqs

Could be a pretty expensive bet but I guess price wise your probably right.

CoD4 isn't that demanding at all..im running 1680x1050 all HIGH w/ 4x FSAA..don't kill yourself waiting and buy an 8800gt now, and if you really NEED the other later on this year, maybe for a crysis style game, get another 8800gt. if you can wait (dont wait forever, thats where many go wrong, wasting alot of their time waiting for something. sure, it will be better, but you have to suffer until then, usually not worth it), then wait i suppose to see what comes this way, doesn't look like the new "9 series" will be much improvment over the 8 series from the "leaked specs".

Where are these leaks from? I mean the source after the actual "nvidia" leak? So you think i should get a 88gt now and then another one later if i actually need it?

I run CoD4 on ALL LOW and get 30-60fps with these spec;
E6600
650W Xtreme Stealth
2.5GB PC6400 5-5-5-15
P5N-E SLi 650i
8600GT

oh yeah i play 1920x1200 on a 24" sexy beast.

When i change the reso down to smaller widescreens one's the fps drops to as little as 3 lol and im using HDMI in btw (DVI to HDMI)

9800

Is there even going to be a 9800GTS? seems kinda pointless considering the 9800 GX2 is basically just 2 G92 chips slapped together (8800GTS chips) and the 9800GTX will barely beat out an ULTRA 8800 from what it sounds like..... I think the 9800GTS would basically be the same power as a 8800GTS 512mb in that case, so why bother?

My vote is for the 8800GT SLI to beat out the 9800GTS and GTX since they aren't a real major advancement at all =\

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video [...] Cards.html

O OK I guess I was wrong thanks for that link kpo6969 i hadn't seen that one yet.

Makes me wonder what ATI will hit back with. I know that the 3870x2 is coming up and should be a good performer, but I don't think it'll be able to compete with the 98** series. What do you guys think?

That might not be the case...Of course the 8800 GT's are better overall compared to the 3870's...But from what I've seen, the ATI Crossfire setups scale better than Nvidia's SLI in most gaming titles. At least that's what I've seen so far.

It's gonna end up being two 8800 GTS g92's...128 SP after all. The difference performance wise between the 8800 GT and GTS g92 is not that vast...

Personally..I think the biggest difference between the 8800 GTS g92 and the 8800 GTX/Ultra is the bus width. Afterall, the 8800 GT and GTS g92's offer VERY SIMILAR performance...considering how close they are...I think the 256 bit bus is limiting the ability of the card. The 8800 GTS g92 has a higher core clock, memory clock, and higher fill rate (in certain aspects) to a 8800 GTX...even to an ultra (except memory clock). The g92 is afterall a G80 shrink with some adjustments...I We'll just have to wait and see how everything unfolds.