brownbox

Ive got one 8800GT already. Im planning on getting a 24 or 22" monitor, running resolutions of 1900x1200 and 1650x1050 respectively. I want to be able to run stuff at the native res (crysis, 2142, COD4)

My options are
Buy another 8800 and go SLI-$240
Sell this 8800 and get 2 9600GT SLI--$220
Sell 8800 and get single 9800GTX.-$289

Which will give me the most gaming power? I want to keep the price down, so please dont say "well really, dual 9800GTX x2 will be better " etc. I suppose i could look at the ATI series, but seem to me like a bit of a waste of time and money. The less money i spend on this, the more i can spend on a monitor
Also, will 500W of PSU get me through all these setups?

MomijiTMO

SLI 8800GT.

Best performance to cost ratio out of the three.

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porky

i dont know hey.......


I mean , why not get a single 9800GTX , get custom cooling for it , and take it to 900/1200/2100?


it will probably lose against SLI 8800GT's by about 50%....soo say the 9800 got 30FPS , the 8800GT's will get say 45fps......

BUT , if a game like grid comes out , a single 9800 will win , cos grid aint SLI.....

look at the games you want to play , cos not all games support sli , and saying "all the latest games will support sli" aint true...lots of games will use the dirt engine in the future...etc......


just my 2c

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linskingdom

Liked others said, it is 8800GT SLI. If you can budget a bit more, 8800GTS SLI is even better but you already had one GT so get another GT is the best for money and performance.

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NrGx

No, the best price/performance ratio is the 9600GT SLI. The G94 core scales exceptionally well in SLI and nearly 9/10 times beats the 9800GTX (various reviews confirm this).

In Australia at least, the 9600GT is a clear $50 cheaper than the 8800GT and less than half the price of the 9800GTX.

Pure performance wise though, yes the 8800GT SLI is superior.

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MomijiTMO

But they already have a 8800GT and there is no guarantee that they can sell it for the amount they proposed.

The 9800GTX doesn't out preform the 8800GT by more than 10%. It barely beats the 8800GTS which itself barely beat 8800GT.

wildfire99

but with a single 9800gtx you could upgrade it eventualy, you get the dual 9600gt your done thats your performance and its not gona change ^_^ my vote is for SLI'd GTS 512s

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brownbox

well i had sli 8600gt back in the day, and it was a "alright" experience, until i upgraded to vista when it was still in the beta nvidia driver stage. That was when i gave up with it. As far as i know, games and drivers have somewhat matured since then though? Right?

Games I play:
Crysis
GTA San Andreas (hehe, its still good)
GTA IV when it comes out
Quake 3 and 4
COD 4
Need for speed series

Yeah, thats about the main ones. But i rekon even in the games that dont support SLI, i will still be pretty well off with 1 nicely OC 8800GT though wouldnt i?

MomijiTMO

Yup and SLI scales well now.