I have a 8800 gts 640 mb should I upgrade?

[biscuit_247]

specs:
p6n diamond board
q6600 overclocked to 3.0
500 power supply
8 gb of memory
500 gb hard drive
pionner lightscribe dvd rw
zalman cnps9700 cpu cooler

I have a 680 watt power supply I was thinking about taking back to upgrade my video card. Is it necessary to do so. If so what card should I get

 

[Jamess]

im in quite a similar situation as you are in, i have a 8800gt 512mb and have been told that another 8800gt in sli would be a very good idea as they work very well together, so i pesume you could do this with yours

OR..

you could look at getting one single big gpu like possibly depending on your budget a gtx 280? possibly even a gtx 295 if you have the money

 

[biscuit_247]

I was thinking about upgrading to a 9800 gtx is it going that big of an upgrade?

 

[Jamess]

i think it would definitely be an upgrade but im not that it would be a Big upgrade

ive just looked at this : http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/charts/gaming-graphics-charts-q3-2008/Sum-of-FPS-Benchmarks-Totals,795.html

and you can see how well the 8800gts in sli performs and also how the gts performs against the 9800gtx there is an improvement but i would think that another 8800gts would be the best option since that you have the 640mb version which would be 1280mb in sli

 

[biscuit_247]

That seems like a promising option how big of a pwer supply would I need for that sli

 

[Jamess]

having a look around and i think around 550 is like a minimum but you say you have a 680watt psu? in that case that will be Plenty and i doubt that it will be lacking to power them both

 

[abb1]

I would say that it all depends how much gaming you do. I am an average gamer and I had the 8800GTS 640 mb, then upgraded to the 9800GTX and now the GTX295. Am I glad I did it................YOU BETCHA!!!
The only thing that you have to keep in mind is that with an upgrade you will probably have to upgrade your power supply as 500W does not cut it for most high end gaming cards.