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1900XTX Crossfire To 8800GT

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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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