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2 8500gt sli or a single 8800 gtx?

  • 10-03-2011 7:33pm
    #1
    magick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,478 ✭✭✭


    Hi lads,

    I was given a 8800 GTX yesterday and was wondering would it give me better performance then my currently overclocked sli 8500GT's ?

    Thx for any advice.


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  • #2
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=2184&page=11
    From the benchmark results, we can clearly see that two GeForce 8500GTs, two Gigabyte GV-NX85T256H running in SLI to be specific, are not as fast as a single GeForce 8600GTS videocard in most tests.

    Synthetic benchmarks like 3DMark05/06 witnessed a decent performance boost, real world games like Doom 3, FarCry and FEAR saw mixed results. At best, the dual Gigabyte GV-NX85T256H's running in SLI perform closer to that of a single GeForce 8600GT, instead of an 8600GTS. There were a few exceptions like Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory, but that didn't shift the general trend significantly.
    an 8800 gtx would blow it apart. Still, that entire product line is garbage. Though you may as well use it while it works!


  • #3
    magick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,478 ✭✭✭magick


    Woah! thats really opened my eyes m thx for the info


  • #4
    jme2010
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 974 ✭✭✭jme2010


    Shams wrote: »
    Woah! thats really opened my eyes m thx for the info

    Yeah man, your almost wasting your time with two 6 year old cards in xfire when a single €60-€70 new card could demolish them and use less power and give you higher resolution to play at.

    But taken that all into account, if your broke, the 8800 is still a great card to have never mind 2. That was my first mid-range card.


  • #5
    Overheal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 86,729 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    jme makes a good point if you have the spare jinglies. Using the same or less power and the same card slot you could be doing more for not too much investment. It will be a sad day when they retire the PCI-e standard, I don't want to go back to the AGP/PCI/PCIe days, trying to figure out upgrades back then was a PITA.


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