8800GTS OC in SLI or GTX260

Hi all

I don’t know if I have done the right thing but I have replaced my 2 x MSI 8800GTS 512mb overclocked SLI setup with a single GTX260 standard card. My first reaction after running 3DMark was oooopppsss! Mistake! Having said that the noise difference is very noticeable the single GTX260 is almost silent and runs at about 45deg as opposed to the 60+deg of the 8800's. I still have the 2 8800's sat in boxes waiting to be sold but I don’t know if I should just sell the 260? Power consumption is another question and I imagine that the SLI setup will take more out of the PSU although I have a 750watt PSU so that should be ok with either. One thing I did notice however, is that the single card seemed to have a better depth of colour to it and played my games as good as the SLI setup, or so it appeared. All things considered what should I do? Keep the 260 with maybe the option of adding a second at some point or just put the 2 8800's back in?

All advice gratefully received........as usual

2x8800GTS will perform better than a GTX285.

Since you already bought the GTX260, get another and sell your 8800GTS

WHY do you always add a space when you use a ' ?

You definitely will be better off with a 260 gtx and you can sli when you need more power and you will have one dangerous system...

Just found a review and the specs O quoted are correct, see link.

http://www.fudzilla.com/index.php? [...] 4&Itemid=1

Put the 8800 GTS cards back in, set them to default at about 30% fan speed and you will get a lot better performance and it wont be much louder, if any.

What kind of case do you have? I built a system with 2 8800 GTS 512mbs in SLI and I slapped the fanspeed to 70% and they never went over 65c while OC'd 786 core and 1075 memory. Don't worry about the idle temps, they mean nothing. That card can run 24/7 at 80c and be fine, look at the 8800 GT.

Yes I think I agree with the majority, I will keep the 260 and flog the 8800's. Like people have said I can always add a second 260 at a later date, which I am sure will be even better than 2 x 8800's

Thanks for all the imput, most appreciated and if anyone interested in a 8800GTS then let me know, UK only, thanks.