I'd say 2 8800 GTs (probly both with 1 gb) would rock SLI since you'd probly want lots of textures and the speed should be relatively the same, though take it with a grain a salt as I prefer ATI and am not the best person to judge NVIDIA
All types of new games really. I'm not sure about resolution because not my monitor is only 1280 X 1024 but i'm sure I will end up getting a 1080P one. System specs are still be decided but i'm sure they will not bottleneck the cards.
Ok its better to go with intel chipset? Why not Nvidia?
Do you think the 2 X 8800 GTs would out perform the 8900 GTX at high resolutions because of the added memory? (512MB X2)
You'll only want an Nvidia chipset if you plan on going the SLI route now or in the future.Go with an Intel chipset(X48)if your sure your not gonna add a second Nvidia card.As a bonus,if you were to use ATI in the future,the Intel chipset would allow you to add in extra ATI cards...
2 512 mb videocards in sli dont equal one 1gb video card because each video card has to have the exact same information stored in it's memory as the other card. And also, make sure you have the power supply and ample case ventilation for sli. If you're going to stay with the 1280 x 1024 I would stay with a single card. To me a 2nd would be a waste. If you do opt for the bigger monitor then sli would be more fitting.
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2 GTs is the best set up, but at that res, I'd be tempted to stick with a single 512MB 8800 GTS. If you're thinking of getting a monitor with higher res, go for the GTs.
2x 8800 GT 512Mb in SLI means games won't use two lots of 512Mb as 1GB and will treat the VRAM available to it as just one lot of 512MB. So even if you had 4x 8800GT 512MB games would only address 512Mb of Vram.
While GTX will naturally perform better in higher resolutions SLI scales much better in higher resolutions too, and the gap between GT and GTX isnt big enough to make up the difference.
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It's always been my understanding that in SLI one card renders one half of the screen while the other card renders the other half. So each card stores different information, thus 1GB would be correct for SLI'd 8800GTs.
It's always been my understanding that in SLI one card renders one half of the screen while the other card renders the other half. So each card stores different information, thus 1GB would be correct for SLI'd 8800GTs.
But I've been known to make mistakes
And there is also 'alternate frame rendering' either way both cards store the textures for the entire frame, the same frame @ 512 mb each. AFAIK
It's always been my understanding that in SLI one card renders one half of the screen while the other card renders the other half. So each card stores different information, thus 1GB would be correct for SLI'd 8800GTs.
But I've been known to make mistakes
You haven't made a mistake because you were talking about SLI from 3DFX weren't you?
I think I will get 1 8800GT for now and add another one in the future when I upgrade my CPU etc. I think I will get this one http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.aspx?sku=342835 I was going to get the XFX one but for £20 more the EVGA one has 120 months warranty (Is this a mistake?) and Crysis. Its core clock speed is also 10mhz faster . I will also upgrade my RAM. I will get this RAM http://www.komplett.co.uk/k/ki.aspx?sku=321028 as it is cheap (I will upgrade to 4 GB later on so there is no need to spend alot of money on RAM I won't have for long). It is also quite low latency as most RAM at 800mhz is CL5 and this is CL4. This should improve my 7100 GS and 1 gig 667mhz (CL5) set up now .
If you had an 8800gtx already, ide say buy a second one. 2 8800gtx's put a big hurtin' on 8800gt's at high resolutions, and the 8800 gtx is down to 290 now on newegg. But price wise, you have to go with the 8800gt if you don't already own a card. They are so cheap.
If you had an 8800gtx already, ide say buy a second one. 2 8800gtx's put a big hurtin' on 8800gt's at high resolutions, and the 8800 gtx is down to 290 now on newegg. But price wise, you have to go with the 8800gt if you don't already own a card. They are so cheap.
Yes, the 8800gt is down to $170-180 range on newegg. Not bad for 90% of GTX performance. I agree with you completely.
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I know that EVGA does that Step up thing which XFX does not do. I've heard that people like EVGA but I have not heard much about XFX. The EVGA graphics card I am looking at according to Komplett.co.uk has 120 months warranty!
I'd say 2 8800 GTs (probly both with 1 gb) would rock SLI since you'd probly want lots of textures and the speed should be relatively the same, though take it with a grain a salt as I prefer ATI and am not the best person to judge NVIDIA
Actually the 1GB 8800GT has virturally no frame rate boost (for the most part).
SLI 8800GTs for the win. Even one 8800GT can perform within 5 frames of a 8800GTX. But remember, that it is heavily dependent on the resolution you're running it at. The percentage of performance boost at, say, 1280x800 is significantly less then at 1920x1200.
Here are some benchmarks... and there are a ton of other games that look the same.
I know that EVGA does that Step up thing which XFX does not do. I've heard that people like EVGA but I have not heard much about XFX. The EVGA graphics card I am looking at according to Komplett.co.uk has 120 months warranty!
120 month warranty is not bad, XFX give a double lifetime warranty however and as far as I know they don't mind aftermarket coolers or overclocking so long as you revert the card back to standard should you have to RMA it but I've never had one go bad so I cannot say how good or bad the customer service is.
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