Worth adding another 8800GT?

[Quitoman]

I would like to hear from anyone who has two 8800GT's in SLI and how they hold up in Crysis Warhead. I have one 8800GT that plays crysis well on 1280x1024, but do the 8800GT's scale well in crysis?

 

[spathotan]

8800GT's in SLi are preety much THE sweet spot for performance/price. Youll do fine in Crysis.

 

[Quitoman]

Thank you, I'm going to snag another PNY 8800GT for $110 and Free Shipping off of Newegg

 

[Mousemonkey]

A 'good' PSU and a fast CPU are a must then, but I assume you've got that covered.

 

[efeat]

As the owner of 2 8800 GTs in sli, I feel I am qualified to answer this question. And the answer to your million dollar question is...


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They perform predictably well. They're not going to be blow your mind "OMG THIS IS AWESOME" but you should be extremely satisfied with their performance. I run a custom config, but my settings average out to about high (excuse me, "gamer") and I run 1600x1200, no AA, 8x AF. I had fraps do an fps benchmark of just me playing the first level for 15 minutes and I averaged 52 FPS. The Ice levels were as much as 10 fps slower, but well within the playable range.
As far as the scaling goes, I ran the original crysis GPU benchmark without sli and got 29 fps average. With sli I got 51, so that's about 75% scaling you're looking at.

This is all with 2 GB RAM, 780i, E6750 @ 3.4 ghz

 

[invisik]

only if my gtx260 sli scaled that high in crysis. only scales 50% =O
it would be worth to sli 2 8800gt they perform very well.