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SLI 8800GTS OR GTX?

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I was going to get 2 8800gts 320mb gfx and run them in sli mode but that would cost me around £400 and for that dosh i could get a GTX.
Would x2 320mb 8800 be quicker than a GTX or would i be wasting my dosh?
i will be sticking them in my new c2d e6600 rig and i play games at 1600 x 1200 res.
cheers.
 
ok, competition time, if you can name a game that can't run in maximum quality on a single 8800gts fine then you win the ability to go buy 2x8800gtx's for sli. wooooo.

if you can't, get a single card.
 
drunkenmaster said:
ok, competition time, if you can name a game that can't run in maximum quality on a single 8800gts fine then you win the ability to go buy 2x8800gtx's for sli. wooooo.

if you can't, get a single card.

the man is right it will run everything even the factory ones that aint clocked
 
2x320Mb GTS in SLI will still only have 320Mb ram, so it doesn't compete with a GTX.

If you intend playing at 1920x1200 or higher, then get a GTX. Otherwise a single GTS will do.
 
And by single GTS i assume Sir Random is meaning the 640mb variety! :)

It's amazing how many GTS 320's are on the members market at the moment! :rolleyes: ;)

Definately go GTX if you want a decent ammount of future proofing and you can afford it!

gt
 
technically it woulnt be a bugatti against a skoda?

It would be more like a Honda civic (semi fast up to a point (320mb)) vs a BMW m3 (Fast and does 99.9% of needs (640mb gts)) and then the bugatti veryon (GTX) Insanely fast and a lot of fun. Huge costs though
 
Im sure there was another one of these exact threads the other day.

Any way like I said before GTX

2 * GTS = SLI. How many of your games with take advantage of SLI?

2 * 320mb GTS = 640mb.

GTX has 768mb so it will cope better in the games with the higher res that you will be playing at, especially if that game doesnt support SLI.

GTX is the way to go! :)
 
drunkenmaster said:
ok, competition time, if you can name a game that can't run in maximum quality on a single 8800gts fine then you win the ability to go buy 2x8800gtx's for sli. wooooo.

if you can't, get a single card.
Vanguard @ 1920x1200 ;)
 
are there really loads of gts 320's for sale? lol, i did try and do my best and for a couple weeks tell everyone how utterly worthless it is buying a card with a core that can run any game at 1920x1200 and an amount of memory that will cause it to run slower than a x1900xt 256mb at that res too. nvidia clearly need to sort out their texture compression, aswell as match memory to card, they should maybe have made a futher cut pipe version to match the 320mb's, or not bothered with the card at all.

i say that as a card with less mem from ATi won't run into same memory problems a nvidia card will, 256mb card copes better than a nvidia 320mb shows you that, z-compression is obviously very very efficient for ATi. also, a 8800 series card with 320mb's mem and maybe half their crap cores that couldn't work with 96 pipes but would be fine with 64 pipes would make them a lotta money off their worse cores, and give us a very cheap very powerful card for medium res gaming.
 
drunkenmaster said:
ok, competition time, if you can name a game that can't run in maximum quality on a single 8800gts fine then you win the ability to go buy 2x8800gtx's for sli. wooooo.

if you can't, get a single card.

He doesnt want to buy 2x GTX's, he wants to know weather to buy 2x 320Mb GTS' or a single GTX.

@ OP You obviously have the money to buy a GTX, so buy a GTX over the 2xGTS'.
 
Yeah id go for the GTX to, even though the 2x GTS's will be faster in some games, as it depends whether the games work with SLi etc... if not then the GTX will be a lot, lot faster in those, single card wins everytime, you wont have all that SLi hastle, so if you can afford the GTX may as well get one. :)
 
Personally I've never seen the appeal of SLI, unless you're running more than two monitors.

If it's one new-gen vs two old-gen, for me it's a no-brainer. Sell your old-gen and use the money against the new-gen. Adding another old-gen means that you probably won't get anything for either of them when you next upgrade (because you hang on to old tech for longer). You also don't get the advantages from any improvements (hardware as in die-shrink; software as in new API).

SLI isn't guaranteed to work well (or at all).

If it's 2x current-gen vs 1x current-gen, then only the bit above applies. But you're still going to use more power, generate more noise and heat, spend more time faffing with drivers,

SLI makes sense from a manufacturing point-of-view. It encourages people to hold on to their old card and buy a new one to SLI them. That means more sales of brand new cards, which is great for them. But I don't think it's really all that great from a consumer point of view.

Unless, that is, you want to buy 2x top-of-the-range cards, in which case money isn't really a concern.
 
FoxEye said:
Personally I've never seen the appeal of SLI, unless you're running more than two monitors.
Running two or more monitors has nothing to do with SLI....

SLI is perfect for a single very high res monitor like dell 30" monitor...
 
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Yup, I should have said "I can't see the appeal of having more than one gfx card, unless running more than two monitors."

In what way is SLI-ing two mid-range cards better than one top-end card, specifically that it is better for high-res displays?
 
drunkenmaster said:
ok, competition time, if you can name a game that can't run in maximum quality on a single 8800gts fine then you win the ability to go buy 2x8800gtx's for sli. wooooo.

if you can't, get a single card.

arma, TDU
 
Azza said:
2 * 320mb GTS = 640mb.

Sorry, but it does'nt work that way. If you have two 320mb cards you still only have 320mb of memory to play with. It does'nt double to 640mb.

I had Sli with a pair of 7800GT's and it worked well for me. Most of my games supported it so i saw big performance gains. However some games do not support it and it is those games that give you problems. Sometimes it will run slower than a single card. On top of that you have the extra power draw and extra heat, as well as potentially losing some pci slots. This is why i have gone back to a single card. Much simpler and much less hassle.
 
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