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8800 Ultra SLI Query

Wayne~

Wayne~

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I current have these in SLI and I'm just wondering without spending huge amounts of money is their any sort of upgrade that would get me much in terms of a performance boost?
 
If you sold both Ultras the upgrade would cost peanuts. But a GTX 280/285 would be probably a good bet, unless you want a dual GPU card then an 4870X2.
 
TBH SLi Ultra's is still a damn good setup, and probably not far off the pace/faster than a GTX280/285 anyway, so I probably wouldn't bother changing, wait til the next refresh/gen.
 
I just changed from SLI 8800GTX to a single 280GTX and tbh, it performs the same, and in some cases slower. If i had to do it again id stick with the cards i had
 
Keep the ultras. Anyone who tells you that a gtx2xx or 4870x2 is miles quicker and worth the outlay is talking rubbish. I can personally vouch for the fact that my old 8800gtxs can keep up quite well with a single 4870x2.
 
I guess a 4870x2 or a GTX295 would be an upgrade, but it wouldn't be much of one and really not worth the time/money/hassle.

Wait for the next generation..or perhaps even the one after.
 
Only advantage of going to a 280/285 would be more space in the case, lower power usage and cooler running... performance wise 2x 8800 Ultra in SLI should match or beat a 28x in most cases except the very few games where SLI doesn't run well...

The only setup thats going to be a major performance boost over your current setup is a 295GTX and thats really not worth the money unless you play at the narrow range of resolutions that it runs best at (1920-2048x - unfortunatly it doesn't have the VRAM to run ultra high resolutions as well as the core could handle - although the 182.x and newer drivers seem to help there a bit).

I "upgraded" from 8800GT SLI to a 260 MAXCORE and the only reason was because the GTs didn't have enough VRAM to play far cry 2 smoothly on ultra settings and I was upgrading to a higher res monitor... otherwise I'd have rather stayed with the GTs as they outperform a 280GTX by a small margin in 90% of games.
 
I have 8800 Ultras in SLI and wouldn't even dream about changing them yet!

All the cards that have been released after the 8800 series have just been die shrinks and faster clock speeds nothing performance shatteringly good!

An overclocked 8800 Ultra set up is on par/better with all nvidias latest releases ecspecially on a 22" at 1680 * 1050, not sure about ati.

Just curious but what motherboard do you have and what ram config do you have to get 3GB?
 
Motherboard is a MSI P7N SLI and I'm using 4GB of OCZ PC6400. Processor is Q6700 stock using 22" 1680x1050
 
Duroxis said:
I current have these in SLI and I'm just wondering without spending huge amounts of money is their any sort of upgrade that would get me much in terms of a performance boost?
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Depends on what games you play. Overclocking your CPU would give you a decent performance boost for free
 
To be honest I loved my old EVGA Ultra, they look awesome and if you have two of them, SLI issues an all, keep em till the next round at least!

768MB will see you through. :P
 
Duroxis said:
Motherboard is a MSI P7N SLI and I'm using 4GB of OCZ PC6400. Processor is Q6700 stock using 22" 1680x1050
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Hi can I ask if you get 16x on both PCI-E slots in SLI?
as I am thinking of selling my P35 DS4 for something like this.
 
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