2 x 8800 GTS (g92) vs. 9800 GTX

With the release of the 9800 GTX in the next few days I am desperately waiting to see how well 2 x 8800 GTS (g92) vs. 9800 GTX will match up. Given that with the release of the 9800's, the 8800's will drop in price you could easily match this up since 2 x 8800's GTS will come out to around $400 and 9800 GTX being in that area as well if rumors are correct. I am going to be upgrading as soon as the 9800's release and would love to see what people think.

So, what do you think will get better performance.. 2 x 8800 GTS or 1 x 9800 GTX?

Discuss here!

Thats right, although me being not a great fan of SLI, as it is not worth the performance of money ratio.

Games are not stable with SLI yet!

Man looking at the reviews out seems like the 9800gtx is just a slightly overclocked 8800gts g92. So you really can compare 2 8800 to 1 9800gtx.
I was planing to buy an 9800gtx but i think i should just get an 8800gtx.

The games that are being made right now and are due out any time in the future are being made to take advantage of SLI finally.

My eyes are set on Age of Conan and it's going to benefit from SLI so im really excited about getting 2 x 8800 cards when prices drop.. I wasn't too sure but it sounds like from the replies 2 x 8800 (g92) is gunna be best bang for buck/high end card set up if that makes sense.

well the 9800 GXT only has 512 megs of ram. So the answer is it will use 512. Gx2 has 1 gig but its per GPU which means 512 megs.

BTW for the people that said that games are now becoming stable with sli or are not yet stable...maybe you guys can look at the games that have been out for a while

Quake 3
Unreal 2004
Far cry
Half life 2
and many more google them

Now lets looka t recent games:

Unreal 3
Bioshock
COD 4 (which LOVES SLI)
Crysis (it helps)
Oh yes and many more...
if you guys took the time to research this before speaking empty words that would be nice.

SLI is pretty fricken compatible. yes there are bugs, but just like any new drivers. Another good example would be COD 2

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I just bumped up to 2 x 8800 GTX after viewing the 9800 GX2 benchs, and the sli beats it hands down for the GTX's.

Just finished Crysis at above 40 fps @ 1680 x 1050 on High settings. Still cannot hit native res of my 28" monitor.

But, 3dmark06 went from 12k to 16k with the second card.

I watercool, so it was important to me that no blocks were available for the X2 yet as well.

how long til we have to use something more efficient than water for cooling...

but how long would we have to wait for hardware to be so power consuming that they requre nitrogen cooling? just a tank of liquid nitrogen costs 5000$.

If you have SLI I don't think it is even a question, 2x8800GTS are a far better deal. I'm sure they will OC better too.

resolution matters too...

and liquid. on the sli capable games. half life series, yes it supports it. but it doesnt make much use of it.

its more of a cpu intensive game than gpu. but u do still need both