GeForce 8800 GTX replacements

[BubberJ]

I have dual 8800 GTX in SLI in my Dell 720 XPS and I am looking to see if I replace these "older" cards with dual BFG GeForce 9800 GT Video Card - 512MB GDDR3, PCI Express 2.0, (2) Dual Link DVI, HDTV, VGA Support. Reason is the card drive keeps give a none responding error and I think it is due to over heating of just being older. I don't do any heavy gaming except for C&C Red Alert 3 and Left4Dead and Photoshop. I can get two of these for 200 bucks and hopefully put these errors behind me. Any thoughts? Thanks

 

[bige420]

Do it if you want, wouldnt see any performance increase, might actually see a bit of a decrease. If you wanted to you could get a GTX 275 for around $235 then maybe get another one later.

 

[coozie7]

The switch will be a bit of a downgrade in performance but other than that it is OK.
Before doing so try some maintenance (if not done already): Clean the fluff out of the fans and heatsinks, both for the cards and CPU, this may be the problem.