2 8800GTs in SLI or a single GTX flavored card?

[Pentacore]

I've been out of gaming for a quite a while. My gaming PC has just sat there for many months and in that time a lot has changed. My system is running 2 8800GTs in SLI and I got to thinking, should I sell the 2 of them and take that money to get say a GTX 260 or 275, etc? Would one of these newer cards out perform my 2 8800GTs? The other thing to note is my motherboard is not PCIe 2.0 so my 2 cards are running at 8x each instead of the 16x the newer motherboards support.

Thanks for any advice!

 

[AzN]

1680x1050 4xAA and lower resolution your sli setup is faster. Anything higher AA settings or resolution GTX260/275 is faster.

If you break even I would just do it. If not don't waste your time/money unless you are running 1920 resolution.

 

[yh125d]

g92 SLI is overall probably about as fast as GTX275 at 16x10 and 19x12

 

[Pentacore]

This has been very helpful thanks for all the info guys! I think for now I'll just keep my setup since I run all my games at my monitor's max res of 1680x1050 and never really turn on AA much at all.

 

[FalseChristian]

Hello, Pentacore. I also have 2 8800GTs in SLI and they still rock! Wait for the DirectX11 GPUs to come out. Skip this generation.

 

[kylebisme]

If your 88800GTs are only 512mb versions then you will need to keep texture quality down in some newer games to avoid VRAM thrashing, but until you come across a game where that happens and it bothers you, you might as well stick with what you have.