8800 GTX Sli what next??

DIABLO · 9 May 2009 at 10:53

Better hurry up i bought the next to last one

LoadsaMoney · 9 May 2009 at 15:11

260 - 275 - 285 are all only seperated by about a couple of frames or so, just a shame the pricing difference doesn't reflect that, as the 275 is about £60+ over the 260, and the 285 is about £100+ over the 275.

Get a £140 260-216, give it a slight clock and you'll have a 285 matcher, saving yourself about £200 for the privilege.

holty · 9 May 2009 at 15:21

LoadsaMoney said:
260 - 275 - 285 are all only seperated by about a couple of frames or so, just a shame the pricing difference doesn't reflect that, as the 275 is about £60+ over the 260, and the 285 is about £100+ over the 275.

Get a £140 260-216, give it a slight clock and you'll have a 285 matcher, saving yourself about £200 for the privilege.

Just a bit concerned it won't be as fast as my sli setup if I go for a 260.

almighty15 · 9 May 2009 at 21:27

Keep the 8800GTX Sli until GTX300 is out, in games that have decent SLI support you will actually lose performance going to a single 280/285GTX

holty · 9 May 2009 at 21:32

almighty15 said:
Keep the 8800GTX Sli until GTX300 is out, in games that have decent SLI support you will actually lose performance going to a single 280/285GTX

To late now I've sold them :eek:

just reading reviews and looking at peoples comments on whats best to get.

HELP lol

almighty15 · 9 May 2009 at 21:44

holty said:
To late now I've sold them just reading reviews and looking at peoples comments on whats best to get.

HELP lol

Was looking at your specs, 680i, They're only PCIEX 1.0 so they 'might' bottleneck a 260/275/280/285GTX

TheRealDeal · 9 May 2009 at 21:46

almighty15 said:
Was looking at your specs, 680i, They're only PCIEX 1.0 so they 'might' bottleneck a 260/275/280/285GTX

No it won't they still run at 16x

holty · 9 May 2009 at 21:48

TheRealDeal said:
No it won't they still run at 16x

Both comments straight over my head LOL

TheRealDeal · 9 May 2009 at 21:51

Not to worry your mobo is fine for the job.

almighty15 · 9 May 2009 at 21:53

TheRealDeal said:
No it won't they still run at 16x

PCI-Express VERSION 1.0

Learn computer talk :rolleyes:

holty · 9 May 2009 at 21:53

TheRealDeal said:
Not to worry your mobo is fine for the job.

Cheers, so 275 then? as I'm now cardless

almighty15 · 9 May 2009 at 21:57

holty said:
Cheers, so 275 then? as I'm now cardless

Dude dont lissen to him, your motherboard has pci-express slots that are x16 BUT they are pci-express spec 1, 260GTX, 275GTX, 280GTX and the 285GTX are all pci-express spec 2 cards.

They will work with your motherboard but they will have half the bandwidth due to runing on the spec 1 bus and not spec 2.

These cards has such a high amount of though-put that it MIGHT affect there performance.

TheRealDeal · 9 May 2009 at 21:58

almighty15 said:
PCI-Express VERSION 1.0

Learn computer talk

Coming from the guy that thinks the 680i pci-e lanes might be a bottleneck. Go learn something about motherboards. The pci-e lanes might be version 1 but they have more than enough bandwidth for those cards stop talking out of your behind look at all the machines on here running those cards with version 1 pci-e. I take it all those machines are bottlenecking the graphics cards.

I would get the gtx275 or maybe one of those b-grade gtx280's.

almighty15 · 9 May 2009 at 22:00

TheRealDeal said:
Coming from the guy that thinks the 680i pci-e lanes might be a bottleneck. Go learn something about motherboards.

I would get the gtx275 or maybe one of those b-grade gtx280's.

I do know something about them, i've OWNED a 680i chipset board.

Have you?

TheRealDeal · 9 May 2009 at 22:04

almighty15 said:
I do know something about them, i've OWNED a 680i chipset board.

Have you?

I don't need to own one to know what i am talking about. My 3870 is a pci-e version 2 card also is that being bottlenecked by my 16x pci-e version 1 lane. No its not as it has more than enough bandwidth to push it to full speed.

almighty15 · 9 May 2009 at 22:08

TheRealDeal said:
I don't need to own one to know what i am talking about. My 3870 is a pci-e version 2 card also is that being bottlenecked by my 16x pci-e version 1 lane. No its not as it has more than enough bandwidth to push it to full speed.

Right so...

1. Your talking about stuff to which you know sweet FA about and have no actual experience with :rolleyes:

2. Bit of a difference between the though-put of a GTX200 card and a 3870 :rolleyes:

3. Ive run a 260GTX Core 216 of a 680i board and now on a 780i board and im telling you there IS a difference. Games which are heavy on streaming suffer BAD :rolleyes:

4. Practical experience >>>>> Your bull**** "i dont need to own one to know" :rolleyes:

TheRealDeal · 9 May 2009 at 22:11

almighty15 said:
Right so...

1. Your talking about stuff to which you know sweet FA about and have no actual experience with

2. Bit of a difference between the though-put of a GTX200 card and a 3870

3. Ive run a 260GTX Core 216 of a 680i board and now on a 780i board and im telling you there IS a difference. Games which are heavy on streaming suffer BAD

4. Practical experience >>>>> Your bull**** "i dont need to own one to know"

There is an actual thread on here about this and the performance difference was minimal nothing to write home about and i think this was done using a 4870x2 which uses more bandwidth than any single core gpu.

almighty15 · 10 May 2009 at 00:19

TheRealDeal said:
There is an actual thread on here about this and the performance difference was minimal nothing to write home about and i think this was done using a 4870x2 which uses more bandwidth than any single core gpu.

READ : http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=757266

x8 PCIEX 2.0 which is equal to x16 PCIEX 1.0 bottlenecks a 9800GX2 and a 4870x2 has more though-put but people in a thread in this forum saw no difference? LOL :rolleyes:

Dont beleive what you hear/read in forums, either base your opinion on actualy experience or from articles were things are benchmarked in proper controlled and fair test conditions.

TheRealDeal · 10 May 2009 at 00:23

Lol i also read that. Why did you not post all the other results may i ask as they showed no difference from 8x to 16x barring around 1 fps. People that just post the results in there favour do my head in. The average from the tests done on this forum by another member were around 5% on a 4870x2. Yea there does seem to be some certain circumstances where the extra bandwidth does help but look at the crysis results which is the most taxing game on cards there is not much difference.

almighty15 · 10 May 2009 at 00:24

TheRealDeal said:
Lol i also read that. Why did you not post all the other results may i ask as they showed no difference from 8x to 16x barring around 1 fps. People that just post the results in there favour do my head in.

Because as i said before, in games that stream a lot it makes a huge difference and the cards were're talking about require more bandwidth then the cards in the article so they will be affected more.

PCIEX x16 ver. 1.0 sucks for high end cards playing high end games.