What do you think of a 8800 GTS 512 SLi setup?

B-Unit

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If you have an SLi capable motherboard and play at high resolution (1680x1050 or 1600x1200 and up) yes. It is also important to know your other hardware and what games you play as these factors will determine how well a multi-card setup will perform for you.
 

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Its nice man, get RivaTuner and overclock it too and you will be in graphics heaven. Havent tried Crysis yet, but COD4 is silky smooth on my 22". I just started Far Cry and I dont know if its supposed to be a load on cards or not, but that looks awesome as well with all settings to the max. With all the jungle trees and stuff it looks great.

Sucks power though and they get hot if you dont turn up the fan speeds.
 

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I think you'll be fine. You are sure about the 31A on the 12V rail, right? That is, we're not talking about 16A on rail 1 and 15A on rail 2, but 31A combined? What model is the PSU?
 

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Yep, it'll outperform 4870/gtx260 and gtx280 across the board.
 
Yep it seems to be the done thing at the moment, In fact anyone with a 8800 G92 card would really be missing a trick if they didnt go the dual gpu route at the price point the cards are at now.

mactronix
 

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Not everyone has the sli motherboard it needs. :p
 
Going SLi with the 8800 GTS would make a pretty good upgrade, especially with the prices. The only thing is, I hope you have a good brand PSU. If you constantly push your PSU to it's limits you will shorten it's lifespan.
 

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while everyone might not have a board capable of SLI physical slot wise, there is always hacked drivers for non nvidia chipsets if your willing to ask around, i agree with mactronix. The price/performance on sli'd 8800's compared to 200's/4800 couldn't be much nicer.
 

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Hacked drivers? Lol, can I ask you where they are? :na:
 

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Do those actually work? :p
 
I have no idea, sorry. I never had the courage to try them myself :sweat:

I know there was a guy last year making hacked Vista drivers for Creative X-Fi. Those did work, better than Creative's, and they were free of spyware too if taken from the right sites. Creative lawyers shut him down because his drivers allowed the cheapest X-Fi to offer all the features of the more expensive X-Fi models, or something like that.

 

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Are we talking about sound cards now? :p

I knew of working+stable sli drivers for old p965 and 7xxxs. But that was a long time ago. Couldn't anyone come up with one for newer hardware all this time? :sarcastic:
 
Oops, I went off-topic. The thing is, that's the only good story I heard about hacked drivers. Bad stories are a lot more frequent.

There will be SLI drivers for the X58, apparently. Official too, i.e. made by nVidia.
 

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I'd wish there were some hacked drivers to run Crossfire on my 680i. I'd love to double up on my 3850 for only like $50 dollars. They scale pretty well too, but alas, my lame 680i will just have to stay.
 

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1 rail with 15 + 2nd rail with 16 = 31 A combined.
Will it run? the brand is Xilence www.xilence-power.com/
 

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I have the 8800GTS 512mb in sli runnign a Q6600 @2.85 and purs like a kitten 24/7. Although the room does get a little warm when playing Crysis & Farcry for a few hours at full noise.

DO IT :)
 
I'm guessing it's the 480W model, since that's the one listed with 15A+16A. Normally you can't just add them, and 15+16 would result in less than 31. That is, the 15A rail will not be able to produce 15A if the 16A rail tries to produce 16A at the same time. On the other hand, I think you're lucky and this is one of the rare PSUs where you can actually add them up. According to this list your PSU actually delivers 31A combined:
http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?sduid=0&t=554094