8800gt sc x2

[bubblebobble]

I have had for 6 months at the moment 2x 512mb 8800gt superclocked cards in Sli, they are great but I have been seduced by the new cards coming onto the market. My question is what should i upgrade too? there seems to be so many opinions on the subject. Needleless to say I have the mentioned cards in need of another home.

 

[pugheaven]

I'm in a similar position, however, after reading all the reviews, I'm best off staying with 8800GT's for now and upgrade when silly prices of nVidia cards come down...

Just wondering what resolution and games you play that you think you need faster cards or like me, do you just fancy something better and have money to burn hahahaha

Cheers Pug

 

[bubblebobble]

well I use my rig mainly for heavy graphic apps, several of which i have to keep running for ease of workflow.
However I have become a bit of games man now, the game which got me started was crysis which I run at 1920x1200 on a 24" monitor. It runs pretty smoothly until we get to the snow scenes. I run the gpu fans @90%. I have attempted to overclock my rig but I often get the BSOD and just gave up so any tips would be useful.

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Q6600 @stock, 4gb ocz PC2-8500C5 1066MHz SLI-Ready
striker extreme
2x 8800gt SC SLI

 

[bubblebobble]

sorry,
with regards the graphics cards, yes i fancy something better, but like you say maybe i should wait for the nvidia cards to drop in price.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

*puts mac on

Nothing worth going to from 2x 8800 GT's tbh, especially sc ones, only advantage the single cards have is in games that aint SLi, as id have thought in games that are SLi compat., your GT's will be faster.

*takes mac off

 

[Rroff]

8800GT in SLI with decent clocks are worth sticking with for now... the main problem is getting enough CPU horse power to properly push them as most SLI boards don't clock quads very well and even a 3.8gig dual core is still not fully utilising an 8800GT SLI setup.

My 650i board seems to cap out at 3.3gig with a Q6600 :| gonna swap it out for a decent clocking dual core I think as this quad seems to hit 5gig stable on fairly low voltage.