4850 vs 7600GT in SLI

DarkPrime

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I currently have two video cards in SLI (7600GT) and just bought a 4850 (will have it in a week or so). Any ideas of any improvement I should see? I tried the bioshock demo in my current machine and had to drop the details a good deal to make it playable (using an opteron 170, but I'm upgrading to a phenom 940), and gears of war was just ok.

Should I see just a small improvement or perhaps a noticeable one?
 

MarcVenice

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A HUGE increase. I just happen to have looked it up yesterday, but two 7950gt's in SLI are slower then a single 8800gt, or even a 8800gts 320mb for 90% of the time. With the HD4850 being a good 10-20% faster then a 8800gt, it will completely wipe the floor with two 7600gt's in SLI.
 

DarkPrime

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If that's the case, I'll get around to playing Gears, Bioshock, and Left 4 Dead much sooner now, thanks.