I love my PC. Its all black, it has excellent coooling, its very quiet (although there are 9 coolers in it), its ASUS. But after installing games such as F.E.A.R. and Ghost Recon I have to look back at my bank account and wonder if I can afford a price efficient upgrade. All I need is few more frame rates!
I play all of my games using these display settings:
- Resolution: 1024*768 (on 1280*1024 display)
- V-Sync: On
- Antialiasing: 2x
- Anisotropic Filtering: 2x
My current video card is ASUS N6600 GT Silencer ( http://news.softpedia.com/images/news2/...za-ASUS-Extreme-N6600GT-Silencer-2.jpg ). Memory size: 256MB, Core clock: 550, Memory clock: 1100 (Overclocked 10%).
Lately i was thinking of going SLI. Two identical cards would look good and sound good (silent). But the only problem is that i can't physically fit in this chunky video card into the second SLI port, next to four of my Seagate hard disks. The heatsink is huge and the particular model is designed to be plugged in the first port so the heatsink is above the CPU fan.
So now I'm thinking of getting another card, which must be ASUS, silent, and not so expensive. I heard that in SLI mode its recommended to have more RAM on the second slot and more powerful GPU on the first slot. So in this case i think i need to go for the cheaper version of 6600 with 256MB or more RAM.
After Frooglening the video cards i found few choices:
- ASUS EN6600 SILENT/TD/512M ***
- ASUS N6600 SILENT/TD/256M **
- ASUS N6600LE SILENT/TD/256M *
These cards are about £60-80 ($90-115), which I can afford.
Now I'm wondering... Is there any point in getting a second card if I want few more frame rates in those power hungry games? I really want SLI though. And I don't feel like selling my 6600GT to spend even more money on cards like 7600-7900. The cash is the issue in my case, and i want to get most out of it! Also, if two cards run on different clock rates, will this decrease the overall performance of the fastest card?
I play all of my games using these display settings:
- Resolution: 1024*768 (on 1280*1024 display)
- V-Sync: On
- Antialiasing: 2x
- Anisotropic Filtering: 2x
My current video card is ASUS N6600 GT Silencer ( http://news.softpedia.com/images/news2/...za-ASUS-Extreme-N6600GT-Silencer-2.jpg ). Memory size: 256MB, Core clock: 550, Memory clock: 1100 (Overclocked 10%).
Lately i was thinking of going SLI. Two identical cards would look good and sound good (silent). But the only problem is that i can't physically fit in this chunky video card into the second SLI port, next to four of my Seagate hard disks. The heatsink is huge and the particular model is designed to be plugged in the first port so the heatsink is above the CPU fan.
So now I'm thinking of getting another card, which must be ASUS, silent, and not so expensive. I heard that in SLI mode its recommended to have more RAM on the second slot and more powerful GPU on the first slot. So in this case i think i need to go for the cheaper version of 6600 with 256MB or more RAM.
After Frooglening the video cards i found few choices:
- ASUS EN6600 SILENT/TD/512M ***
- ASUS N6600 SILENT/TD/256M **
- ASUS N6600LE SILENT/TD/256M *
These cards are about £60-80 ($90-115), which I can afford.
Now I'm wondering... Is there any point in getting a second card if I want few more frame rates in those power hungry games? I really want SLI though. And I don't feel like selling my 6600GT to spend even more money on cards like 7600-7900. The cash is the issue in my case, and i want to get most out of it! Also, if two cards run on different clock rates, will this decrease the overall performance of the fastest card?
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