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Greets all,
I was hoping I could get a little advice on a new video card...
Here's my situation....
I've got 2 SLI'd 8800 Ultra's in my system now (See system specs below). When they work...they work great. However...I've got an issue where periodically and randomly one of those cards will just hard-lock my system when in SLI. If I disable SLI...the problem disappears. Its only in SLI. Anyhow....I've done alot of searching and found there are alot of folks that seem to have the same problems with the combination of 8800's in SLI and Vista 64.
I've been troubleshooting this for a while now and I'm tired of goofing with it. I think I'd like to just cut bait and get a new card. I'm thinking that my 8800 Ultras are old enough now that perhaps a single card solution of one of the newer cards might just give me higher frame rates than my current SLI setup WITH less heat to boot.
Is my guess true? Will I be able to achieve better FPS with a single-card solution using one of the newer cards than with the SLI setup I have now?
I'd prefer to stick with Nvidia cards. If a single-card solution can indeed get me better FPS than my current SLI setup...then I'd prefer to get a card pretty high up on the performance curve so that if I go to the trouble and expense of yanking those two cards...that I can actually see the performance difference.
So whatdya think?
Current System Specs:
Intel Q6600 G0 2.4Ghz OC'd to 3.33 Ghz
Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme & Scythe S-Flex 120mm
EVGA nvidia nForce 680i SLI NF68-A1
8 GB (4 x 2GB) Mushkin DDR2-800 (PC2-6400) 4-4-4-12
2 x EVGA 8800 Ultra in SLI
Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi XtremeGamer 7.1
1 x 150 Gb WD RaptorX
2 x 320 Gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.10
Cooler Master Stacker 830 Evolution
Thermaltake Toughpower WO133RU 1200W PSU
3 x Thermaltake A2018 120mm Blue LED Case Fans
Ultra 4 Channel Fan Controller, Blue LED
Sony 1.44MB 3.5" Floppy
Samsung 18x SATA DVD Burner w/ Lightscribe
Logisys 12" Blue Cold Cathhode
Logitech G15 USB Gaming Keyboard
Logitech MX518 USB Gaming Mouse
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 64-Bit
I was hoping I could get a little advice on a new video card...
Here's my situation....
I've got 2 SLI'd 8800 Ultra's in my system now (See system specs below). When they work...they work great. However...I've got an issue where periodically and randomly one of those cards will just hard-lock my system when in SLI. If I disable SLI...the problem disappears. Its only in SLI. Anyhow....I've done alot of searching and found there are alot of folks that seem to have the same problems with the combination of 8800's in SLI and Vista 64.
I've been troubleshooting this for a while now and I'm tired of goofing with it. I think I'd like to just cut bait and get a new card. I'm thinking that my 8800 Ultras are old enough now that perhaps a single card solution of one of the newer cards might just give me higher frame rates than my current SLI setup WITH less heat to boot.
Is my guess true? Will I be able to achieve better FPS with a single-card solution using one of the newer cards than with the SLI setup I have now?
I'd prefer to stick with Nvidia cards. If a single-card solution can indeed get me better FPS than my current SLI setup...then I'd prefer to get a card pretty high up on the performance curve so that if I go to the trouble and expense of yanking those two cards...that I can actually see the performance difference.
So whatdya think?
Current System Specs:
Intel Q6600 G0 2.4Ghz OC'd to 3.33 Ghz
Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme & Scythe S-Flex 120mm
EVGA nvidia nForce 680i SLI NF68-A1
8 GB (4 x 2GB) Mushkin DDR2-800 (PC2-6400) 4-4-4-12
2 x EVGA 8800 Ultra in SLI
Creative SoundBlaster X-Fi XtremeGamer 7.1
1 x 150 Gb WD RaptorX
2 x 320 Gb Seagate Barracuda 7200.10
Cooler Master Stacker 830 Evolution
Thermaltake Toughpower WO133RU 1200W PSU
3 x Thermaltake A2018 120mm Blue LED Case Fans
Ultra 4 Channel Fan Controller, Blue LED
Sony 1.44MB 3.5" Floppy
Samsung 18x SATA DVD Burner w/ Lightscribe
Logisys 12" Blue Cold Cathhode
Logitech G15 USB Gaming Keyboard
Logitech MX518 USB Gaming Mouse
Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 64-Bit
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