To SLI or not to SLI

[princejim]

To SLI or not to SLI, I have the chance of buying 2 8800GT OC2 512mb cards for under £100. Would this be a good option to SLI? Or would it be better to buy a new card? I run a q6600 go version OC to 2.8, monitor is a DGM full HD with DVI. Any thoughts would be most welcome.

 

[Rroff]

Does your motherboard support SLI?

If its close to £100 I would say put the money towards either a 260GTX or 4890 instead or maybe even the 5770.

 

[sckam]

I would rather wait and get a hd 5850 card, I recently upgraded from 8800gt sli to a hd 5870 and am really pleased with it. I gave my 8800gt cards to my brother and one of them has just stopped working.

 

[braveheart]

if mobo chipset are:

1) Nvidia chipset then use Nvidia card into SLI only - cant use ATI as Xfire
2) AMD chipset then use ATI into Xfire - cant use SLi
3) Intel own chipset - can use both Nvidia (SLi) or ATi (Xfire)

my mobo is Nvidia chipset that I cannot use ATI as xfire so only as SLi, I used 2 x XFX Nvidia GF9600GT XXX seem good run and gaming.

 

[rolypolyman]

Does your motherboard support SLI?

If its close to £100 I would say put the money towards either a 260GTX or 4890 instead or maybe even the 5770.

Agree.

 

[chaparral]

I would rather wait and get a hd 5850 card

The OP was looking at paying out around £100

A 5850 is about £240

 

[jorzeh]

Get a 260 gtx and when the dx 11 cards are finally in stock and affordable use it as a phsyx card.. you know i make sense

 

[Happy]

Does your motherboard support SLI?

Doesn't really matter nowadays

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18076634&highlight=username_Happy

 

[Rroff]

Yeah but theres no guarantees with that... and not everyone might want to mess with it

 

[Marine Iguana]

Yeah mine doesn't work
But i blame vista

 

[princejim]

Thanks for the post's guy's I am going to upgrade to a I7 920 one of the pre overclocked ones and run Win 7, will this make the 2 8800's more viable?

 

[reflux]

The problem with two 8800GTs is that your peformance is only going to be around as good as a GTX260/HD4870. You could sell your card and a better single one for the same price, so personally I wouldn't bother.

 

[TheTard]

i wouldnt bother either, same up a bit more and get a better single card

 

[chaparral]

Would this be a good option to SLI?

No.......buy a single GTX 260 or 275 (Or an ATI card)

Or would it be better to buy a new card? .

As above

 

[feeddagoat]

£50 is abit high for old tech. While both great cards newer cards are cooler, faster and better value.New card +1

 

[Phill4321]

Sometimes sli and crossfire doesn't scale too well, mostly depending on the game. So you may only get the performance of one 8800. I wouldn't bother tbh, Just buy a 4890 or the nvidia equivalent and stick to that until dx11 kicks off.