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Dual 256mb 8600GTS or single 640mb 8800GTS?

I would get the single 8800GTS. It will perform better than the two 8600GTS's. And many games aren't SLi supported, so the single will be even better in those cases.
 
Single 8800GTS, but would wait till the new versuion with 112 shaders comes out, perhaps something like +/- 4 weeks
 
Great, thanks :)

Is there much difference between the 320mb 8800gts and the 640mb one?

Cheers
 
Depends what res you're running it at. I think the general concensus is 1440x and above you want the 640MB version, personally I think that's the winner irrespective. Chances are you'll upgrade monitor at some point if not already and it'd be a pain to have to buy another card at the same time.

Plus it's not a massive price hike from 320mb to 640mb when you're spending that kinda cash on a single component anyway. :)
 
Get a 640MB one, newer games are starting to show the framebuffer limits of a 320MB card and as said the price difference isn't that big.

I would also get the cheapest card and do any overclocking manually.
 
Sorted! Just ordered new system with 640mb 8800GTS. But not from here of course!

Thanks for the input :)
 
I've said it before and I'll say it again, multi-gpu is normally only worthwhile if you are loaded and can buy two top end cards, or possibly as an upgrade path in the future (adding a cheap secondhand card if you are having trouble selling your existing one).

Sure, in a few games you can save a bit by getting 2 cheapy cards in SLI but you are far too dependent on game/profile support, and then you've got the hassle of unreliable drivers, power consumption, heat production, taking up more slots etc etc. Good for 3dmark but lot a lot else.

When buying new I would never buy two cards at once unless it was 2x GTX or something like that.
 
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