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Sli my 8800GTX or get a better cpu.

Lolcb said:
Nonsense. clone, I have 8800GTX SLi, and i cant be anymore happier with it ;) E6600 with 8800GTX SLi is good enough ( If you OC the cpu ). Then wait till next year when Quad cores goes mainstream, then get a quad core cpu. :)
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Yes, but what games are actually multithreaded with any decentcy yet?

Supreme Commander is, but its hardly going to stretch a 8800GTX.

1920x1200 is probably still within a clocked 8800GTX range.

Get a better CPU, memory, mobo, cooling, whatever.

CPU > GPU TBH.

Esp with a 8800GTX anyway.
 
I really don't believe there are any big gains of having a SLI 8800gtx other than if your using it on a 30" display until someone posts some hard evidence to back up all this bickering.

One 8800gtx will run any game without any worry of needing another card, You would get much more value for money and be much happier by running one card and spending what you would have on a 2nd card (£450) down a lap dance club.

If you strongly disagree post some evidence to back up your theory. And I'll eat my hat. :o (santa hat)
 
peppy1 said:
I really don't believe there are any big gains of having a SLI 8800gtx other than if your using it on a 30" display until someone posts some hard evidence to back up all this bickering.

One 8800gtx will run any game without any worry of needing another card, You would get much more value for money and be much happier by running one card and spending what you would have on a 2nd card (£450) down a lap dance club.

If you strongly disagree post some evidence to back up your theory. And I'll eat my hat. :o (santa hat)
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no need to. in the first place, we dun have to prove u anything, we dun owe u. secondly, get 8800 sli and notice the difference urself.
 
Lolcb said:
no need to. in the first place, we dun have to prove u anything, we dun owe u. secondly, get 8800 sli and notice the difference urself.
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Your quite correct, you don't have to prove anything, It's my opinion that one GTX will do the job nicely and 2 would be a simple waste of money as there is no big gain unless your using a 30" display, Nobody will change my opinion until I see hard evidence that proves otherwise so my opinion will remain unchanged, I was hoping though that someone would come forward and prove me wrong.
 
There is a benchmark if I remember correctly that shows the difference of SLi and a single card solution at different resolutions. And as much as I hate to say, most of the benchmarks you see online, are just either the maximum fps or the average ones. Hardly any benchmark shows the minimum ( which sometimes will puts people off from buying the card ). But if you do make an effort to to browse around the net, you will definitely find a site that shows the difference between SLi and non - SLi.

And trust me, the difference is a lot. 8800GTX single card solution might be good for now but if someone can afford another one to increase performance, is there any reason to say no? As much as you guys have to say " O no its pointless etc etc " I am a person who goes from a single card solution to SLi. And I myself exprienced the difference between the two.

If you can afford it, go for it and you will not regret it. That is as much as I can say. Take note that with a single 8800GTX and a 24" monitor, you cannot apply 16xAA and 16xAF at native resolution if you want a decent gameplay out of it.
 
Lolcb said:
no need to. in the first place, we dun have to prove u anything, we dun owe u. secondly, get 8800 sli and notice the difference urself.
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What are you talking about?

a 8800GTX cleans through all games out now, bugger me even my X1900XTX doesn't do too bad.

For 1920x1200, a 3.6ghz+ clocked C2D far far far outweights the gains from another bottlenecked 8800.

Even my X1900XTX was bottlenecked in BF2 by 50% at 1600x1200.

Clocked up by 1.135ghz and now it rarely drops below 80FPS, 1600x1200, 6xAA, 16xAF and on a 64 player server.


Clock your CPU/get better mem/mobo, whatever.

Just don't get another 8800GTX!
 
He already has a top notch memory and ram. All he has to do now is to purchase E6600 and clock it to 3.6 Ghz and he will be fine with 8800GTX SLi setup.
 
Water is actually a good advice to follow. But that depends on clone if he wants to go water setup or not. Water doesn't give anything tbh besides lowering load temp and enabling u to oc a bit more. and pimping ** rig to make it look better lol.
 
Great I've eventually found a good comparison thread

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35604 comparison article.

1 8800 scores 9814 in 3d marks06
2 8800 scores 10974 in 3d marks06

That equates to a percentage gain of %16 - ok fair enough 3dmark06 is not a fair indicator. So how about games!


Doom 3 Sli v single 1024x768 1280x1024 1600x1200 2048x1536
8800GTX(SIN) ACS3 575 / 1800 MHz 134.9 134.9 134.2 125.5
8800GTX(SLI) ACS3 575 / 1800 MHz 134.9 134.9 134.3 133.9

Doom 3 shows that only the bigger displays make a difference in SLI and only slightly.

Gaming with FSAA & Aniso
It seems that FSAA 4X + Aniso 8x does make a justifiable difference and some games that support a res bigger than 1920 x 1200


So my conclusion now stands that Sli 8800GTX will not deliver value for money unless your using a monitor bigger than 24" or running games in FSAA 4 + Aniso 8x.

so my question, Is the benifit of running in FSAA 4 + Aniso 8 really worth £450 quid of your money if your only running a display 1920x1200 ?
 
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When you meant by good, you meant a website that supports your claim of 15% better performance. Let me find the website that I read a while ago. What we want here is not statistics of max fps.
 
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Just overclock the hell out of the E6600. I haven't heard of a single game that performs better on a QX6700 than on a equally clocked core duo. In fact in any current dual core optimized game the QX6700 performs identically to the E6700 which is also clocked at 2.66Ghz. I don't reccomend you get another GTX because at your current max resolution it's just not necessary. I have a X2 4400 @ 2.5GHz and a 7950GX2 and also use a monitor with a native res 1920x1200 and have found that my system handles anything I throw at it considerably well. So a overclocked E6600 and a 8800GTX should be more than enough. Also in regards to phase-cooling I don't think you should because even at 4.0Ghz your likely to see minimal performance gains in games because even the 8800 isn't enough to keep it busy. Keep in mind though that this is only in regards to current games and in the future there will be games that will benefit from using a quad-core cpu. Also I should note that in multi-core apps the QX6700 is an absolute monster and you would clearly see an improvement over even the higher clocked X6800.
 
Hell no im not getting water or phase cooling ive been there done that, just looking to future proof my machine. :D
 
I myself step up from single card to SLi and I am happy that I did. Maybe it is part of fulfilling personal desire. But clone, if you have the money to go SLi, do it. It is very unlikely that you will regret the purchase :cool:
 
illegal sig btw snooze, must be 4 lines.

anyway if you are looking to FUTURE proof your rig, dont get another 8800 now. wait until vista comes out and the games come out that really push the card THEN get one. it'll be much cheaper and you'll see the benefit immediately.
 
daven1986 illegal sig btw snooze, must be 4 lines.

anyway if you are looking to FUTURE proof your rig, dont get another 8800 now. wait until vista comes out and the games come out that really push the card THEN get one. it'll be much cheaper and you'll see the benefit immediately.
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Sorry about the sig i sorted it now

I have SLi'ed the 8800's and to be fair I am having my fair share of hair pulling moments, as already stated i play Source engine games mostly so there are driver issues at the mo......but BF2 and COD2 look absolutley fantastic with these cards. I will post some screenies
 
oh i am not doubting that games look amazing on it, i am just saying that waiting for a month or so will enable the price of the cards to come down and the games that use them to come out.

daven
 
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