9800 GX2 vs GTX 260

I'm building a new system and I'm trying to decide between the 9800 GX2 and the GTX 260. From benchmarks they seem pretty close but the GTX 260 does better in some. Also how are the drivers for the GX2 and does it act as a single card or do you have to turn on SLI for it to use both GPUs?

it is indeed like an sli card, but it doesnt need to be enabled (i would believe)

the GX2 has min frame rate problems

I went through GX2s to 260s to 280s.

The 260s in sli might lose sometimes to 2 GX2s in Quad but the GX2 and quads definitely have lower min frame rates. Not only that but AA when enabled in GX2 it can hit it hard depending on the game.

Example in Crysis it took like 5-8 seconds to refresh the screen on the GX2 when AA was enabled, then the frame rates took a big hit. While the 260s had a lower framerate, but took no hit at all virtually.



But with out AA and generally speaking, the GX2 is a very powerful beast, it manages to out perform 2 280s in SLI when quaded sometimes.

So really it depends on how much you want to spend, and how much min frame rates annoy you.