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8800GT SLI

24inchgamer

24inchgamer

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Any of you guys running 2 x 8800's? Is it even possible yet (drivers)?
If so, what games are making good use of both cards, and how are you finding them compared to 1 x GTX
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yep everything runs well. beats an overclocked GTX by far. with the sli green bar running, it so far fills up to about 70% on games like the crysis demo (in which i get about 50fps with no AA HIGH settings). half life 2 ep 2 must use sli, as at 1680x1050, everything max, 16xQ AA 16x AF frame rates well over 100 80% of the time. GOW uses it well as well, although that game doesnt appear too taxing as my 7900gtx runs it maxed over 40fps anyway.

go for it. doesnt use much power, they dont get too hot. overclock well. decent driver support (IN XP!!)
 
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ergonomics said:
yep everything runs well. beats an overclocked GTX by far. with the sli green bar running, it so far fills up to about 70% on games like the crysis demo (in which i get about 50fps with no AA HIGH settings). half life 2 ep 2 must use sli, as at 1680x1050, everything max, 16xQ AA 16x AF frame rates well over 100 80% of the time. GOW uses it well as well, although that game doesnt appear too taxing as my 7900gtx runs it maxed over 40fps anyway.

go for it. doesnt use much power, they dont get too hot. overclock well. decent driver support (IN XP!!)
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Great. Well im using vista 64bit, with 4 gb. and 1920x1200... hence why im considering a second card. How do you think cod4 will cope maxed out at this res with one card. it ran perfectly on my GTX
 
it will run fine, the game scales very well on hardware, and the GT is a great card.

however recently i saw a benchmark chart comparing sli in xp to sli in vista. the sli in vista scored no more than a single card, where as sli in xp got approx 70-80% performance boost. if i were you, i would either wait (could be a while) or dual boot if you must. there isnt much point in buying another for it to not be used
 
ergonomics said:
it will run fine, the game scales very well on hardware, and the GT is a great card.

however recently i saw a benchmark chart comparing sli in xp to sli in vista. the sli in vista scored no more than a single card, where as sli in xp got approx 70-80% performance boost. if i were you, i would either wait (could be a while) or dual boot if you must. there isnt much point in buying another for it to not be used
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Ach, I hope that gets sorted, the only reason im still Vista is because of DX10, otherwise it would be in the bin!
 
ergonomics said:
it will run fine, the game scales very well on hardware, and the GT is a great card.

however recently i saw a benchmark chart comparing sli in xp to sli in vista. the sli in vista scored no more than a single card, where as sli in xp got approx 70-80% performance boost. if i were you, i would either wait (could be a while) or dual boot if you must. there isnt much point in buying another for it to not be used
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Do you run GOW in DX10?
 
24inchgamer said:
I thought the same until I played Crysis on a friends pc, same spec as mine but xp.. big difference, certainly didnt have the same atmosphere as mine did in dx10... still, they both run like crap haha
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I tried Crysis in DX9 and DX10, no difference apart from in DX10 you get the ability to use "Very High", but you can do this in DX9 now.

DX10 Vs DX9 in GOW has no different at all apart from a lower frame rate.
 
willhub said:
I tried Crysis in DX9 and DX10, no difference apart from in DX10 you get the ability to use "Very High", but you can do this in DX9 now.

DX10 Vs DX9 in GOW has no different at all apart from a lower frame rate.
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Lighting looked a lot different to me mate in dx10, so did some of the textures on the player models
 
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