BFG Tech, 8800 GTX Muddle....

[.:dhry:. Siro]

Hi

I have had a BFG 8800 GTX for some time now, purchased from OCuk. I am enquiring about going SLI. However, on looking for the card on the website I can't find it! They now have somthing called the BFG 8800 GTX OC... which has a faster clockspeed. (My Version: 575 Mhz > OC Version: 600mhz)

This leaves me with a problem. As you are aware sli suggests you have same card Manufacturer and model.. I have looked all over the net and the only results for the vanilla, first released 8800 GTX which I have, comes with a price tag of £400 plus! Needless to say, I aint paying that.

This leaves me but with 2 options. Buy a plain 8800 GTX from a different Brand, (will this even work?). Or buy 2x completely new cards.

Any suggestions?? There must be other people in the same situation with BFG...

Thanks

 

[Monkeynut]

Different brand will be fine.

 

[Firegod]

I'm pretty sure the GTX OC would work fine, it's the same card except pre-overclocked for you. So if you just clock your existing GTX to the same speed (i.e. +25Mhz on the core and whatever on the memory) then bingo, you have your very own, GTX OC.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Different brand will be fine.

Yep, as long as its a GTX it doesn't matter what brand it is.