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How much of an ungrateful barsteward should I be?

WJA96 said:
Now Mike, do please read the first post. It does say that BFG have done me an enormous favour, and I would hope thread title is clearly indicating that I'm not unhappy with BFG, I'm just being an ungrateful barsteward in that I'm going to have to spend more money to balance up my 'second' system. And given that my primary rig already has 3 water-cooled BFG GTX280's in it (one of which was yours), I don't really see the point.
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I read it mate, several times as I wanted to be sure in my reply as it was a little critical. Sorry.

Hypothetical scenario: In two years time one of the GTX280 H20Cs (one of which was mine heh heh) in your tri SLI rig dies. BFG kindly send you a replacement of a GTX 380, but once again your rig is unbalanced as your tri-SLI plans are now in chaos.

I think what you are experiencing now is another flaw in multi-gpu set ups and certainly one I hadn't previously contemplated.
 
run the other card dry for a few minutes then send it back to them!!!

just kidding

i would email bfg and they will probably replace it for you

the pre watercooled 285 isnt out yet so they will no doubt send you a replacement
 
tibbsey said:
How much slower?

If it's a second system, how much gaming do you do on it?

(Basically, does the performance decrease matter?)


Sell the other 8800GTX, or use it for PhysX and wait until Hydra is released then have GTX280 + 8800GTX.
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It's about 10% slower - about 2500 3DMarks. It only matters because I blew £1000 on graphics cards in September 2007 and now I have a slower system as a result of one dying and the manufacturer doing the right thing in sending me a MUCH better card, it just happens to be incompatible with my old SLi setup.
 
I've already posted my thoughts - that I would just take the performance hit. If you have a Tri-SLI 280 rig and a single 280 rig, then you have the best of both worlds. One rig for games that only benefit from a single GPU, and one for massive power.
 
if they could have sent you a card the same as yours, they would have. Now stop complaining and sell one of the two cards (i would sell the 8800gtx personally) and unless you play at insane res's with 8xaa and 16xaf i wouldnt bother getting another identical card.
Besides, in games that dont scale all that well, which lets face it is quite a few, you will get significantly better framerates - ignore 3dmark.
 
Devil_Spawn said:
if they could have sent you a card the same as yours, they would have. Now stop complaining and sell one of the two cards (i would sell the 8800gtx personally) and unless you play at insane res's with 8xaa and 16xaf i wouldnt bother getting another identical card.
Besides, in games that dont scale all that well, which lets face it is quite a few, you will get significantly better framerates - ignore 3dmark.
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I'd be nuts to sell the 8800GTX! If it breaks I can send it back:D

I'm not looking to sell either really, I'll just get another 8800GTX H2OC to match the old one.
 
Have you thought about contacting BFG and explaining your dilemma? You never know, they may offer to replace your other 8800 for a nominal fee. No harm in asking.
 
Honestly I think your making a big deal out of nothing :P

You've got a minimum 90% of the speed of your old setup guaranteed, with no reliance on SLI and decent performance in those few titles that don't work well with SLI, lower power useage, less heat and a 280 on water should clock like crazy.

I'd sell the 8800 if you can and put some money towards another 280 - would be a major boost and a nice cheap upgrade path.
 
WJA96, you have had a *touch* :)

You got a GTX280 in place of an 8800GTX and your not jumping for joy? :confused:

Sell either of them, preferably the 8800GTX (*spit*) :p

Man, you had so much bad luck with hardware you actually don't see your luck has turned hehe! ;)
 
I don't see why everyone is so hell bent on me selling the 8800GTX. It's still a killer card and I'd only get £110-£120 tops for it. If it breaks in the next 8 years (highly likely) I'm not going to get anything less than a GTX 260 H2OC, and quite possibly a lot better.

And I'm not unhappy, or moaning, I'm just saying that I've got a better single card, but a slower overall system and the BFG support technician I 'chatted' with said I would get an 8800GTX back as a replacement.
 
if i got a GTX 280 as a replacement for an 8800 GTX then i would me very happy, even tho its slower in 3dmark doesnt mean it will be slower in everything else, remember 3dmark is very highly multi-gpu optimised so in normal gaming, performance will most likelly be similar or better with the 280
 
well i doubt it be much slower in games would it ? as in game and 3dmark is different things.

there 3 possible choices i see:

1. keep 280 and 8800gtx run gtx as physix card but u will be wasting electricity as not many games have it yet but 8800gtx will still use power. even if theres no phisix enabled. so basically u will have a card that does not increase performance just eats electricity

2. Sell 8800gtx get 280 then sli them. great performance but requires fair amount of power. same again increase of electricity bill.

3. sell 8800gtx settle down with one 280. witch would use less power then 8800gtx sli setup will safe u few quids from electricity bill . go to the pub and drink the profit u made from 8800gtx
 
Ha hahahah hahahahah.

Anyway i have an evga 8800 gtx sat here doing nowt, but it has an aftermarket accelero aircooler on it.

Still best bang for buck card i ever owned.
 
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