Whats better?

[kyle2020]

Just a quick question i was sat pondering last night - what would be better performing, dual 8600 GT's or my single 8800GT @ the clock speeds in my specs?

[intel igent]

single 8800

[oli_ramsay]

one 8800gt!

[kyle2020]

one 8800gt!

is it? i just assumed that the 2 cards moderatly clocked would outperform the single . . . plus i like the thought of SLI :p haha.

[hat]

then get another 8800gt :)

[oli_ramsay]

then get another 8800gt :)

+1

You would get crazy performance for cheap :) :toast:

[kyle2020]

then get another 8800gt :)

good point . . . but i would need exactly the same card am i correct? this is an ASUS EN8800GT TOP, so i couldnt just but an £80 GT id have to buy exactly the same card?

[intel igent]

any 8800gt will work

[kyle2020]

any 8800gt will work

seriously?!

[intel igent]

NO, i lied

:p

[kyle2020]

NO, i lied

:p

i dont know how to take that :D

True or false? be serious because if i can use any other GT ill be ordering one possibly next week!

[intel igent]

well, judging by the :p at the end of my post and the other two poster's (plus myself) i think it's safe to say that you can run out and buy yourself another gt and enjoy some SLi

and considering you gave hat a thnx i thought you already had the answer

[Gam'ster]

as long as it has the same amount of memory, and if ones and OC card they will both run at the slowest card speed i think that how it works out :).

Gam

[kyle2020]

well, judging by the :p at the end of my post and the other two poster's (plus myself) i think it's safe to say that you can run out and buy yourself another gt and enjoy some SLi

and considering you gave hat a thnx i thought you already had the answer

mo its just i hadnt thought about another GT - like my main post says, i was wondering if the 2 8600's could outperform a single GT. Then we got onto the subject of SLI'ing GT's and seeing as i didnt even think about that, i gave Hat thanks ;)

Thanks for the input intel, i MIGHT be going SLI then, who knows. If so, another accelero will be bought aswell haha. I might go for it within a couple of weeks, might leave it until i go intel + quad though.

[kyle2020]

but seriously, what sort of a performance increase will i be looking to get? If i get say an £100 card, clock them both to 700 - 1800 - 200, will i really notice a difference? and then, will my CPU bottleneck the performance of an SLI rig?

So many questions! haha.

[hat]

your cpu will bottleneck in epenismark but not in real world games and such

[kyle2020]

your cpu will bottleneck in epenismark but not in real world games and such

not too much of a loss then. Its something im going to have to consider then :toast: