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Would an upgrade be worth it?

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maleko

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currently i am running two of these in sli in my box. what i'm wondering is if it would be worth it to upgrade to two of these?

nvidia did a silent launch with this thing and so i dont know a whole lot about it. does anyone know how much better performance it gets than a 66gt or is it the same?
 
Froim what i have seen it is faster than 6600GTs, but not worth the upgrade from 6600Gts i would have said.

There are also several differnt types of 6800XT, the ones you want have DDR3 and 256mb/256bit RAM...(like the ones you link to).

I saw some benchmarks showing it having a tidy lead over a 6600GT...
 
Originally posted by: maleko
currently i am running two of these in sli in my box. what i'm wondering is if it would be worth it to upgrade to two of these?

nvidia did a silent launch with this thing and so i dont know a whole lot about it. does anyone know how much better performance it gets than a 66gt or is it the same?
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Galaxy 6800xt 425/1000mhz
from that review the 6800xt has only a slight advantage over the 6600gt, plus the Galaxy 6800xt is clocked 75mhz higher on the core than the XFX

 
Keep in mind these can often be unlocked.

However, even if you assume he can run these in SLI at 16 pipelines each, which might be possible, it's still not quite worth the upgrade IMO. I think you'd be better off saving for the nvidia offering, if not just to see what it's capable of & having subsequent price reductions on these older gen cards.
 
It's not worth it man..if you really want to have a real performance gain and have to spend not alot of having for the sake of sli. Is by grabbin one of those 6800GS @ newegg.com . I'm assuming that EVGAs 6800GS PCI-e is selling for 164 after 10 rebate.
 
Sell em both and get a single 7800GT.

the 6800's will of course be faster, but not nearly enough to justify an upgrade.
 
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