9600GSO Sli?

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I recently made an impulse purchase and took a 9600GSO 384Mb of my friend's hands for $70 (later found out that they go for $50 and under online :mad:) but now i realize that if i want to play newer games at 1920x1200 im definately going to need something faster.

Will two 9600GSOs in Sli cut it for crysis and far cry 2? I was originally going to get a GTX260, so how would performance compare that that?

My rig would be

Intel C2Q Q6600

2 or 4 gigs ram

2x 9600GSOs
 
so i should sell my 9600GSO and wait for the GTX260's cost to go down?
 
farcry 2 is pretty optimized , may wanna give it a shot ...
i know my Laptop has no problems doing 1440x900 pretty much everything on high & its got a mobile 9700M 512 GTS in it
 
i was hoping that since SLi is supposed to help maintain FPS at high resolutions i would be able to nearly match the performance of one 9600GSO at 1024x768.

my friend got crysis to run at high at that res
 
you can check out the hard stats here: www.gpureview.com

the GTX 260 would be a much nicer solution simply because its single card. I'd go with that considering you can find them for in the $200 range... but I donno.
 
subject of thread being changed:

BARELY USED NVIDIA 9600GSO FOR SALE
HOT DAMN SUPER FAST!!1 PLAYS EVERY GAME
COMING OUT WITHIN THE NEXT 10 YEARS AT MAX SETTINGS
2560x1600 36XQSMZXAA 128XAF 250FPS!!1!!!!111!!!!!!!!!!1
 
it may have enough processing power but the memory will kill frames instantly at anything above 1280/1024 or 1440/900. i learned that the hard way when i tried to move a 3850 256 to a monitor with a rez of 1600/1200. if you were playing at the 2 previous resolutions maybe but not at 1920/1200 +1 for the gtx 260
 
Your mentioning SLI so I assume you have an SLI motherboard........Your not gonna get dick for the 9600GSO and actually, they're a damn fine card. I'd keep it and use it as my PhysX card or hell.......everyone needs a cheapy backup around the house. And, don't feel bad about the $70. That $50 is after rebate and believe me it's worth $20 not to have to deal with it.
 
wrangler said:
Your mentioning SLI so I assume you have an SLI motherboard........Your not gonna get dick for the 9600GSO and actually, they're a damn fine card. I'd keep it and use it as my PhysX card or hell.......everyone needs a cheapy backup around the house. And, don't feel bad about the $70. That $50 is after rebate and believe me it's worth $20 not to have to deal with it.
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+1 well said
 
wrangler said:
Your not gonna get dick for the 9600GSO and actually, they're a damn fine card. I'd keep it and use it as my PhysX card or hell.......everyone needs a cheapy backup around the house.
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i didnt know you could use it as a physX card... how does that work?
 
9600GSO is a pretty decent card, Ran Farcry 2 pretty well for me. Try it solo for a while and save up for a GTX270 or 4870.
 
Rauelius said:
9600GSO is a pretty decent card, Ran Farcry 2 pretty well for me. Try it solo for a while and save up for a GTX270 or 4870.
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What settings do you run far cry 2 at


my cpu is such an old peice of shit that it dosen't really matter what settings i put it at i still get an unstable 30fps, so i put everything on high cept for shadows and geometry and i get 24fps in the benchmark thing , 15-30fps in game
 
Ewww Far Cry 2 eats up single core CPUs for lunch and then dinner.
 
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