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1900XTX Crossfire To 8800GT

Kofac

Kofac

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Anyone have an opinion on this please ?

At the moment I run 2 x ATI 1900XTXs in Crossfire with this motherboard Asus A8R32-MVP.

All games I run at 1600x1200 that set up runs pretty much everything I throw at it at a reasonable rate.

First question would be would I be able to stick in a single 8800GT Nvidia card into that Motherboard.

Second question would I have any advantage in FPS with the upgrade. I know I would go for DX9 to DX10 with the change. But was more interested in if it would make games run any better.
 
DX 10 does little, if anything, except slow down frame rates... I actually installed Windows Server 2003 cos i wasn't using DX10 at all...

and why bother to upgrade if you can run everything fine? i would say it's not needed.

anyway, what are your system specs? and what's the budget and system resolution?
 
I say wait...

New cards are around the corner and they should prove to be a worthy upgrade. 8800GT while its a great card wont outperform the crossfire set up by a great amount to warrant the hassle of upgrading, at least not for me.
 
8800 GT would be faster id have thought, but its only really worth going to one for less power usage, it will be quieter, will give out less heat, and also its not hampered by being Crossfire/SLi, where if a game isn't Crossfire/SLi supported, then it will only run on 1x of your cards (which the 8800 GT is much faster than), so really if the heat/power etc... is of no concern, and they are still doing the business now for you, then there is no real reason to go for the 8800 GT, you may as well hang on till the proper next gen's. :)
 
Ahh thanks all the advice. Its a little complicated at the moment I have an Epsilon FSP700 Power Supply its the noisy thing. Rest of the system including the graphics cards are watercooled.

I was going to buy a Zalman 750-HP Power Supply to try and quieten down the system a bit.

Bear with me gets more compicated LOL. In my second PC I have a really good 500watt power supply its a SilentMaxx one great powersupply. But when you plug it into the Crossfire it gets very very hot to hot to run. Hence the FSP700. :)

My specs are FX60 small overclock to 2.8ghz. 2Gig for ram will be upgrading to 4gb shortly and Vista64. Running on a 20" TFT so it has to run max at 1600x1200.

Still with me good :) the reason I was thinking about a new grapics card was I thought I could get away with changing the 2 x 1900XTXs for 1 x 8800GT and put in my 500watt quiet power supply.

But if its going to be that much if any faster then I will go back to plan A and buy another quieter power supply and stick with the 1900s.
 
Well if your going to be spending the money on the PSU anyways you might as well sell your X1900XTX's for £45-50inc each and then its only going to cost you around £10-£20 to upgrade your system and then all you have to do is switch your other PSU's around.
 
X1900's in CF equate roughly to a 8800GTX as can be seen here. If you can live with the extra heat, power consumption and occasional CF hiccup, there is very good reason to wait until the next generation of cards arrive.
 
Yes 1950XTX Crossfire is when fully supported in game still very good and maybe not that far short of 2 HD3870's if not running in 2 x 16 PCIE slots

If You don't need DX10 You are wasting Money on anything out there until the new Cards appear in a month or So

Always Liked My X1950XTX setup except for the noise
 
My benches have roughly doubled when going from an X1950XT 256mb to a 8800GTX.

So considering the XTX is better, if they scale well, I'd say the 8800GT would be a downgrade.

If they don't scale anywhere near to 2x, then it'd be an upgrade.
 
Hmm thanks for all the advice if its not that much faster. I think I will as suggested stay with the 1900s until the newer cards come out. Then go from there. The PSU noise I can live with for now.
 
I'd of said it would either be a small upgrade but in some situations a large downgrade but there is the chance in some games of it been slower, especially older games. But the 8800GT has got less heat, power and noise and possibly better with AA I'd of thought. I would say sell them, you would get about 50-70 quid each I rekon and you would still have money left over from getting an 8800GT, pretty much worth it infact a no brainer IMO.
 
hibeesmad said:
Just a quick question, is an overclocked GT the same speed of a stock GTS at 1680 x 1050? Thanks.
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I dont really know without benchmarks but I think a GT overclocke dto about 740Mhz is on about the performance of a stock GTS 512 allthough that estimate on the clocks might be abit high and also most GT's dont get to 740Mhz. Dont forget the GTS 512 has 128SP's compared to the 112 of the GT.
 
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