Ok let me lay down a little background here.
I built a system almost 2 years ago (right before the 8 series nvidia came out)
I had 2 nvidia 7900gt cards one was an EVGA and the other was an XFX. I ran them in SLI and things were great. I like to game, Age of Empires III, Halo2, Oblivion, Sims2, FEAR, DOOM3... but I'm also an architect and frequently do 3d modeling and autoCAD on my computer. I have very limited funds so I would not even consider a Quadro so don't even suggest it.
My XFX 7900gt broke and began causing horrible artifacts everywhere to the point that I had to pull it out just to navigate around my desktop. I sent it back to them relieved to see that they offer a double lifetime warranty. they dont carry the 7900 anymore and told me they would send me back a 8600GTS 512mb, from all the benchmarks i've looked up most of the games I play a single 7900gt beats the pants off of a 8600gts. I raised the fact that this also defeats the purpose of having a more expensive SLI system.
So they claim that the 8600gts is superior to a 7900gt (B.S.), have shipped me an 8600gts and have stopped responding to my emails
so SLI is not even possible, what should I do?
do I sell the 7900gt on ebay and buy a second 8600gts and do SLI, sell the brand new in box 8600gts and just deal with one 7900gt, or sell both and buy an 8800gt/9series? whatever I do i can't spend alot, hoping for under $100 net loss here
I built a system almost 2 years ago (right before the 8 series nvidia came out)
I had 2 nvidia 7900gt cards one was an EVGA and the other was an XFX. I ran them in SLI and things were great. I like to game, Age of Empires III, Halo2, Oblivion, Sims2, FEAR, DOOM3... but I'm also an architect and frequently do 3d modeling and autoCAD on my computer. I have very limited funds so I would not even consider a Quadro so don't even suggest it.
My XFX 7900gt broke and began causing horrible artifacts everywhere to the point that I had to pull it out just to navigate around my desktop. I sent it back to them relieved to see that they offer a double lifetime warranty. they dont carry the 7900 anymore and told me they would send me back a 8600GTS 512mb, from all the benchmarks i've looked up most of the games I play a single 7900gt beats the pants off of a 8600gts. I raised the fact that this also defeats the purpose of having a more expensive SLI system.
So they claim that the 8600gts is superior to a 7900gt (B.S.), have shipped me an 8600gts and have stopped responding to my emails
so SLI is not even possible, what should I do?
do I sell the 7900gt on ebay and buy a second 8600gts and do SLI, sell the brand new in box 8600gts and just deal with one 7900gt, or sell both and buy an 8800gt/9series? whatever I do i can't spend alot, hoping for under $100 net loss here