8800GTX V 9800GTX V 2 X 8800GT

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)

What it only uses one of the cards VRAM? Thats kinda stupid and wastes money too.

No, each card uses it's own memory.

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Did some quick research. One of the GTXs will be the best choice now I think.

Research properly mate...2x8800GT rape a 8800GTX to kingdomcome.

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.

So the 8800 GTX would have more VRAM then 2 X 8800 GTs therefore it should do better in higher resolutions shouldn't it?

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.

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

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.

Yes, the 8800gt is down to $170-180 range on newegg. Not bad for 90% of GTX performance. I agree with you completely.

I'd rather have this one :- http://www.yoyotech.co.uk/product_ [...] 88ba2ecfcb
Memory is also available http://www.yoyotech.co.uk/product_ [...] 88ba2ecfcb

EVGA imo better for a number of reasons.

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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.

http://www23.tomshardware.com/grap [...] &chart=357
http://www23.tomshardware.com/grap [...] &chart=297

nuh uh!

And @ Dark Comet, I must say that that you definitely do not want to get that motherboard... get this one or something similar. Good all around: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813128014

But to answer your question, it will work.

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.