8800 GTS SSC?

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rampantandroid

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I played the Crysis demo the other day....and it had fun beating my 8800 GTS 640MB to death....

:-/

Yeah...anyway. So, as time moves on, what is best to do? If I were to pick up a 8800 GTS SSC with 119 stream processors, would I be able to SLI it with my existing card that has only 96 stream processors? Is this path even worth it? Am I better to buy a GTS SSC and sell my GTS?

I see people saying sell the GTS, get a GT...is that worth it in my case? The GT is only a marginal increase.

Thanks for all help.


Edit: Also, if I went to SLI, would my PSU - PCP&C 610W with a single 12V 49A rail - be able to handle two cards?
 
I sold my gts 640 on ebay for 325.00, purchased an ssc direct from evga for 299 plus shipping (got it today) so it cost me almost nothing to upgrade. I only did this so I could redo my 90 day step up in hopes something more significant comes out I could step up to.
 
doox00 said:
I sold my gts 640 on ebay for 325.00, purchased an ssc direct from evga for 299 plus shipping (got it today) so it cost me almost nothing to upgrade. I only did this so I could redo my 90 day step up in hopes something more significant comes out I could step up to.
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I see most GTS cards going for slightly above 200 USD at the moment....and how the heck did you get an SSC for that little?
 
He bought a GT SSC not a GTS one.

Honestly you won't see a huge improvement with the GT over the GTS, esp if you are OCing it. It will take a new generation of hardware to play crysis at max settings and high resolution.
 
jmackay said:
He bought a GT SSC not a GTS one.

Honestly you won't see a huge improvement with the GT over the GTS, esp if you are OCing it. It will take a new generation of hardware to play crysis at max settings and high resolution.
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Its bloody far cry all over again! Heh. I guess I'll sit and wait for the new gen. (by new gen, do you mean G92...or new gen as in NV9800 cards...and when on earth would that even be at this point?)

Thanks!
 
I've been thinking about this question for rampantandroid. I would definitely be tempted to sell my card if it was only a GTS and buy a GT. Even if I only got $200 for the GTS. That would just be $80 to $100 for a good overclocked GT.

But Jmackay is probably right. It might not really be worth the trouble just to go from a GTS to GT.

However I just upgraded my perfectly fine P965 board to a P35 just because it's new and shiny, so who am I to judge? Hehe. :)
 
rampantandroid said:
Its bloody far cry all over again! Heh. I guess I'll sit and wait for the new gen. (by new gen, do you mean G92...or new gen as in NV9800 cards...and when on earth would that even be at this point?)

Thanks!
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Well your GTS should play on all high @ 1280x1024, the game looks damn good at that setting even on a 20" LCD. If you want to run @ 1600x1200 or such res's though you need to drop some settings down to medium. Shadows, shaders, and post effects make a big difference in fps usually.

And G92 is the 8800gt, but it will take a card much faster than an ultra to run Crysis smooth with maxed settings and aa and higher resolutions.
 
I think Crytek should have just not enabled the "very high" option all-together (for at least the first few months).

It really seems to confuse too many people who just go around saying, "Crysis isn't even playable on a GTX!" when clearly it is (just not on very high)...or they say (even in reviews) that the game's "probably just not optimized". No, it is optimized - it just uses features that no other game has and which simply slow it down a lot. Use the same features in other games and they'll crawl too.

Anyway, this new 8800 seems really not worth it so far, since the 8800GT matches it in most scenarios and costs about $150 less. If you're on a budget, you'll go for the GT - if you're not on a budget, you'll go for the GTX...so who will buy the GTS SSC?
 
Anyways, Crysis is not enjoyable at all on 1680 x 1050 / High settings. When there is no action, its pretty smooth, but on the heavy action scenes the FPS drops to 10.. Don't even want to play it.
 
^^ yikes. it will pwn my 8800gts 640 on high then? even if i turn down shadows/shaders/ and other post processing effects down to medium or low? goddamn.. have you tried the new 169.09 betas yet?
 
HotShotMedic said:
^^ yikes. it will pwn my 8800gts 640 on high then? even if i turn down shadows/shaders/ and other post processing effects down to medium or low? goddamn.. have you tried the new 169.09 betas yet?
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Yes, I tried new drivers. You can lower the settings, but then you will lose some nice effects.
 
HotShotMedic said:
^^ yikes. it will pwn my 8800gts 640 on high then? even if i turn down shadows/shaders/ and other post processing effects down to medium or low? goddamn.. have you tried the new 169.09 betas yet?
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I have tested the settings extensively with an 8800 GT single and SLi set-up with the 169.09s. With an 8800 GTS single card and above, you can turn shadows and objects down to LOW and keep everything else to HIGH and you should almost double your framerates.
 
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