In need of a suggestion!

[siegedelux]

Hey,

Im going to upgrade my gfx card, but im not sure which one to take. Iv'e done some searching here on tom's gfx card graphs and saw that the GeForce 8800GT OC had a pretty high score, on the 3d mark06. So what im asking is, would it be worth putting money on two of these for SLI?

This is the card im thinking of buying (It's in norwegian, but im sure you can make out of what it says ).
http://www.komplett.no/k/ki.aspx?sku=346631

 

[siegedelux]

Or perhaps this one: http://www.komplett.no/k/ki.aspx?sku=345873&view=detailed#ProductTabs

Cheaper, better memory clock speed (2Ghz) and higher core clock speed (700Mhz).

 

[siegedelux]

Im playing AOC (Age of Conan) and my specs are:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 AM2 Dual Core 6000 (3.0GHz)
Western Digital Raptor X 150GB SATA 16MB 10000RPM
Corsair Dominator TWIN2X8500C5DF 4096MB
Asus M3A32-MVP DLX/WIFI

Current GFX card is: XFX GeForce 8800GTS, not up to snuff for AoC.. have to overclock, which i do not want to do.

 

[siegedelux]

Oh and i almost forgot the screen resolution! Playing on 1280x1024.

 

[siegedelux]

Im not sure, have had a bad experience with Radeon cards a while back.

 

[siegedelux]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161236&Tpk=HIS%2bRadeon%2bHD%2b4870

Two of these?

 

[siegedelux]

Btw, how does the SLI work? Never tried it out, but my motherboard is SLI ready if you could check it for compatibility issues. and sorry for the double post but, it would not allow to edit my previous post..

 

[siegedelux]

okay, but are there any differences with the SLI for AIT/Nvidia cards? On my motherboard that is, or does it not matter? And is the card you suggested slower or faster than the one i suggested? The one you showed has 1986 memory clock but with a lower core clock and the other one has 1800 memory clock.

 

[WR2]

Your 790FX Asus M3A32-MVP DLX motherboard is SLI only - meaning you can't use ATI cards in Crossfire mode. It can use a single ATI card just fine though.

Right now AOC doesnt seem to scale well in Crossfire OR SLI so no real advantage to getting a 2 or 3 card SLI setup.
At 1280x1024 resolution Im not sure that even upgrading your 8800GTS to a GTX 260 would get you a major improvement.
For AOC it seems a 4850 is better than a 9800GTX(8800GTS) and the GTX 260 is slightly better than the 4870.
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTUyNCw2LCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

 

[siegedelux]

Alright thanks, iv'e made my decision to buy the 4870 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161236&Tpk=HIS%2bRadeon%2bHD%2b4870%2b512MB%2bGDDR5%252c%2bPCI-Express%2b2.0%252c%2b2) hopefully this will give me a performance boost

Ill also have a look at the Crossfire motherboards, thanks for giving me the heads up..