Posted this in the wrong forum last night, hopefully this will work.
OK, so I've been doing some thinking about this SLi business, and it seems to me that unless Nividia and ATI are going to start making cards in pairs, there is no advantage to SLi from a financial standpoint.
Lets pretned you have a true SLi MOBO that plays both cards at PCIe X16, well you paid a bunch of cash up front for that SLi MOBO, then I'm guessing people are picking up 1 card to start an a second one later once it is cheaper and they need it.
But the thing is if you didn't get an SLi mobo, you could have put that money you saved it in the bank, and in a year combine it with the money you were going to spend on the 2nd video card, and buy a new video card that is as nice as the two old ones combined running SLi.
What helped end this debate for me was looking at the charts and then finding the costs of two 6800's and an SLi MOBO, VS one 7800 and a non SLi MOBO and then looking at these performance charts:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/02/vga_charts_viii/page11.html
The rig used by Toms was the only True SLi MOBO out there right now:
ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe Socket 939
Man if instead of paying $229 you pay $129 for a non SLi MOBO you can go from a 6800 GS to a 7800 GT and still have $20 in your pocket.
Geforce 6800GS XFX $205
eVGA Geforce 7800GT $285
So unless you are running two 7800's, I can't see the reason for someone to get an Sli MOBO. But I hoping you guys can help me learn more.
OK, so I've been doing some thinking about this SLi business, and it seems to me that unless Nividia and ATI are going to start making cards in pairs, there is no advantage to SLi from a financial standpoint.
Lets pretned you have a true SLi MOBO that plays both cards at PCIe X16, well you paid a bunch of cash up front for that SLi MOBO, then I'm guessing people are picking up 1 card to start an a second one later once it is cheaper and they need it.
But the thing is if you didn't get an SLi mobo, you could have put that money you saved it in the bank, and in a year combine it with the money you were going to spend on the 2nd video card, and buy a new video card that is as nice as the two old ones combined running SLi.
What helped end this debate for me was looking at the charts and then finding the costs of two 6800's and an SLi MOBO, VS one 7800 and a non SLi MOBO and then looking at these performance charts:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/02/vga_charts_viii/page11.html
The rig used by Toms was the only True SLi MOBO out there right now:
ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe Socket 939
Man if instead of paying $229 you pay $129 for a non SLi MOBO you can go from a 6800 GS to a 7800 GT and still have $20 in your pocket.
Geforce 6800GS XFX $205
eVGA Geforce 7800GT $285
So unless you are running two 7800's, I can't see the reason for someone to get an Sli MOBO. But I hoping you guys can help me learn more.
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