SerenityKill3r

I just cant sleep

Damn iPod with your Led Zepellin goodness...

Why do you have to be so long Kashmir, why?!?!

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GuardianOdin

hey guys, how bad would this slow down my bandwidth if I got a second 8800GT?

From DFI's site on the Expert:

- Each x16 slot operates at x8 bandwidth. When the graphics cards are connected
via the SLI bridge, the total bandwidth of the two graphics cards is x16.

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nategr8ns

G.O., you'd be fine to SLI.
I don't think the bandwidth difference between x8x8 and x16x16 makes any difference in games.

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boonie2

ODIN , I havent noticed any Neg. differance at all since I went SLI .. nice to turn everythig up to MAX. researching on how to O/C both cards instead of just the primary card

SerenityKill3r

8x & 8x Sli is good, the cards never use the full 16x anyway.

The board I'm getting is 16x & 4x Crossfire. I want to see, if or when I go crossfire, how that effects my performance...

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Anqt31

Go for it G.O. I don't think it will hurt anything... in a new Core 2 Extreme machine, it might, but in our rigs... who cares!

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GuardianOdin

cool thanks guys, If I do actually buy another 8800GT I'll be using for F@H mainly. Then if I want to crank up a game I can just flip the SLi on. Hmmm..

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blitz6804

GuardianOdin think's he is a Viking Tux...

If I remember right, the difference between 32x and 16x is negligible on the SLI, much less of a difference than 16x versus 8x on a single card. In the long run, the gains over SLI far outweigh what you will lose in dropping each card from 16x to 8x.

However, if you intend to run the cards separately when folding, expect a slight, noticeable, performance hit. It would be as if you put your 8800 GT into an AGP rig. On the other hand, since you are not intending to game with only one card anyway, what does it matter? Keep in mind though that two cards would be drawing (at least) 79-185W stock; more if overclocked. I wish you luck; you and I may have new power supplies in our futures.

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thlnk3r

Guardian, there is definitely a noticeable change going from 2x to 16x (if that helps at all). I used 3DMark06 to compare the differences and it was enough to notice.

2x - 8887
16x - 9693

Those runs were done with a 3850 at 700/850. You might want to think about getting a different PSU. It looks like your current X-Finity is only pushing 35amps. If your going SLI pick up something that has at least 50amps and has 80 plus efficiency.

Good luck buddy

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boonie2

any opinions on the newer Seagate 7200.11's 320gb hardrives ? looking at those or maybe the Hitachi 750gb's theyre on sale too ?