What to do

[Kribby2006]

Hi All,

As is the same with many other people right now, the lack of next generation video cards seem ages away and I was thinking about going for an SLI setup and have a couple of questions.

Firstly, I currently have a BFG 8800GTX OC and wondered if I could SLI this with the XFX 8800 GTX Extreme currently at a great price on OCUK? I know there are a couple of differences with memory/shader speed and so on and wondered if this would would be a problem?

Secondly, As I have an Abit AW9D Max mobo with and Intel chipset I will need a new Nvidia based motherboard so I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions. Price will be slightly important here as I notice that some of the new mobo's are breaking the £200 mark now and I didn't want to go that high.

Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,
Kribby.

 

[Kribby2006]

Thanks for all of your replies. I think the GX2 might be an option because I would't need a new mob.

With regard to your comment Semi, my point is, I would buy a new motherboard if necessary to go with the new video card but the total cost would be roughly the same as buying a GX2 I guess.

With regard to my monitor, its a 20inch Samsung running at 1680x1050 and I know most people will say what you have already will be fine at that res, but then I love to crank up AA/AF to the max. This has also put me off some of the newer spec cards in that due to the narrower 256bit bus, they don't handle this aswel, so I heard anyway

All comments are greatly appreciated.

 

[Kribby2006]

faur enuff man, i think i'll wait and take your advice

My advice?
Don't Bother

1) Effort
2) Price
3) Possible disapointment in some areas.
4) Mega small performance boost