so, 8800GT's SLI, anyone in a similar position wondering when to upgrade

[iamTakeo]

I've been looking at the specs, and the anticipated specs of the new generation cards. I recon I can only justify £300 spending till christmas which equates to 1 next gen 'GTX'.

I know everything is speculation till the benchmarks come out, was wondering what other people with 8800 series SLi are thinking about doing when the new cards come out. Buy 1 high end, or 2 mid-range. And compairing that to current performance with 8800 SLi. Is any upgrade justified yet...benchmarks pending

 

[Azza]

Take that £300 and change it to a £400-£450 and thats is prolly what the cost of the GTX 280 will be on release.

 

[Greebo]

Too early to say and looking likely you aren't going to do any better than your SLI'd 8800 for £300.

 

[Andeh]

i would take a single high-end card over 2 mid ranged SLI cards anyday. At least every game you play, you're garunteed to get the best performance possible from your card

 

[Greebo]

Very true about the single vs SLI but if you already have an SLI setup and it's going to cost you a lot of money to swap for a single card solution which performs just the same, is it worth it? No IMO

 

[Andeh]

in that situation, you're probably right.

 

[Rroff]

While its too early to be sure... I don't think the new G200 series cards are going to be a huge increase in performance over 8800 SLI - aslong as the game supports SLI fairly well and most do.

Personally I decided to buy another 8800GT and SLI rather than spend money now on the next generation - under £200 spent on 2x 8800GT and if I find later on down the road they aren't cutting it any more - then the prices on the new cards will have probably dropped - driver support improved and so on.