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What and when must???

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imported_callo

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Woohoo!!!! I found the right victim an I have sold my XFX 8800 GTS 640 XXX for $400.00, I got a 680i and almost $600 budget for the upgrade.

Please give advice about what buy and when, my original Idea was 2 EVGA 8800GT 512MB 700mhz in SLI paying tonight almost 615 with shipping at evga.com.

Do you think this is the right choice or you can give me kick in the ass for my lack of inteligence....

Thanks in advance.

Callo
 
I'd be kind of worried about the heat that dual 8800GT OC2s would generate, but I am guessing SLI owners aren't privy to noise anyway, so I say go ahead, but I would use Rivatuner to increase the fan speeds to at least 40% for each card since they are going to be so close to each other.
 
I dont know why but I always adjust the fan speed during stress...fear maybe....

The noise....I left that to my room A/C 😛

Thank you for the tip Astra...

Someone else is with Astra´s choice?
 
I've actually been misreporting my load temps on this forum since all I've been doing is playing HL2, CSS, and Warcraft 3 which only puts up my 8800GT OC up to 66C on average after an hour of gaming. I saw 78C on stock (29% fan speed) just now playing Crysis demo for about 30mins...I put up the fan speed to 40% and this dropped it to 74C on load...

Damn this card runs hot. Though I have to say, the reviewer that originally managed 86C on a stock 8800GT must have had the worst case ventilation ever.
 
SLI is a very poor choice IMO (although I always preach about power and noise).

The "when" is in around 2 weeks when the new AMD cards come out.

The "when must" is if Crysis comes out and you just 'must' play it on very high at 1600x1200. 🙂

There will be a new high end eventually. Just wait it out man. :beer:
 
When you can use 1 card, at 1600x1200 in DX10 on Crysis or any other full DX10 game and get a min of 30fps I want that card. Until then, AMD and Nvida can kiss my...well, you know what I mean.

I got my card I have now because it was a decent deal and I needed more than my x1900XT gave me.
 
Even if we assume Crysis has no SLI problem, I don't think two 8800GTs can run Crysis properly at 1600x1200 or higher. On just "high" the both the GT and GTX on the fastest Quad Core have lows around 15fps...and I don't think SLI can manage 80% gains in SLi because Crysis is not a bandwidth limited game like Oblivion.
 
Originally posted by: Astrallite
Even if we assume Crysis has no SLI problem, I don't think two 8800GTs can run Crysis properly at 1600x1200 or higher. On just "high" the both the GT and GTX on the fastest Quad Core have lows around 15fps...and I don't think SLI can manage 80% gains in SLi because Crysis is not a bandwidth limited game like Oblivion.
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It's not bandwidth limited? How was Oblivion bandwidth limited?

I understand what you're saying, I don't expect SLI to immediately make everything all hunky dory. I just don't understand what you mean by bandwidth limited. Do you mean that it is reliant on GPU power to handle everything and adding more power shows a greater boost than a faster CPU and more memory? Please explain.
 
All right SickBeast, the Astrallite thermal analisys and the power consumption issue are very disturbing, so if you had those $600 +/- you obviously bought a single card...Which is your choice on the 2 weeks ahead?

Thx
 
Originally posted by: callo
All right SickBeast, the Astrallite thermal analisys and the power consumption issue are very disturbing, so if you had those $600 +/- you obviously bought a single card...Which is your choice on the 2 weeks ahead?

Thx
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I'll know in 2 weeks. 🙂

Really, I'm curious about the RV670 and would not buy anything until the reviews on it come out.

I run an 8800GTS 320MB. Crysis is playable, but does not run in its proper full glory. My card is heavily overclocked and probably performs pretty close to a stock GTX.

I'm impressed with the 8800GT for the price. If the new AMD card is cheaper and performs as well or better, get it. Otherwise an EVGA 8800GT is great because you can step it up if a new high-end card comes out (and there are rumours of one coming out soon from nVidia).
 
Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
Originally posted by: Astrallite
Even if we assume Crysis has no SLI problem, I don't think two 8800GTs can run Crysis properly at 1600x1200 or higher. On just "high" the both the GT and GTX on the fastest Quad Core have lows around 15fps...and I don't think SLI can manage 80% gains in SLi because Crysis is not a bandwidth limited game like Oblivion.
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It's not bandwidth limited? How was Oblivion bandwidth limited?

I understand what you're saying, I don't expect SLI to immediately make everything all hunky dory. I just don't understand what you mean by bandwidth limited. Do you mean that it is reliant on GPU power to handle everything and adding more power shows a greater boost than a faster CPU and more memory? Please explain.
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I mean that Oblivion seemed to benefit more from sheer memory bandwidth and fillrate than shader power, evidenced by the fact that second to the 8800 GTX/Ultra is the 7950GX2 in Oblivion. And it's the only game I've seen where SLI has 80% (and sometimes 90% in the higher settings) performance boost. All of this, apparently, with very little SLI optimization.
 
Originally posted by: Astrallite
Originally posted by: cmdrdredd
Originally posted by: Astrallite
Even if we assume Crysis has no SLI problem, I don't think two 8800GTs can run Crysis properly at 1600x1200 or higher. On just "high" the both the GT and GTX on the fastest Quad Core have lows around 15fps...and I don't think SLI can manage 80% gains in SLi because Crysis is not a bandwidth limited game like Oblivion.
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It's not bandwidth limited? How was Oblivion bandwidth limited?

I understand what you're saying, I don't expect SLI to immediately make everything all hunky dory. I just don't understand what you mean by bandwidth limited. Do you mean that it is reliant on GPU power to handle everything and adding more power shows a greater boost than a faster CPU and more memory? Please explain.
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I mean that Oblivion seemed to benefit more from sheer memory bandwidth and fillrate than shader power, evidenced by the fact that second to the 8800 GTX/Ultra is the 7950GX2 in Oblivion. And it's the only game I've seen where SLI has 80% (and sometimes 90% in the higher settings) performance boost. All of this, apparently, with very little SLI optimization.
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Yeah well Oblivion was a very texture (and hence memory) intensive game. Crysis seems to be much more shader-intensive. I'm not sure what SLI helps the most with, but I get the feeling memory is not going to be the problem.
 
Thats a good point, the EVGA STEP UP program lasts 90 days, so the risk will be low enough to take it. I havent used before and I dont know how much you lose in the process but seems easier.

I will keep those $600 for a couple of weeks and see what happen.

Thank you.
 
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