Bit the bullet....

[surya]

and just hit the Submit Order button on newegg and ordered a pair of GTX 285s from evga the OCed editions. Comes with a nice game too for me to break the hardware in (COD5). I am a bit worried about the 750W PC Power & Cooling PSU and wonder if it will hang in there with those suckers. I think it should no problem since the new cards do use considerably less power than the Ultras I have.

Ah well. I am probably going to bump another 400 mhz on my cpu just in case to remove CPU bottlenecking. But boy am I excited!!!

 

[TheBuzzer]

I dont get why are people buying a pair.

Just great a freaking single video card. Buying pair in my view is a waste becuase it cost twice as much and not twice as fast.

 

[Bigbacon]

long as it can handle the AMPs you should be ok. I have SLI 280s on an 800watt PSU.

 

[Bigbacon]

I dont get why are people buying a pair.

Just great a freaking single video card. Buying pair in my view is a waste becuase it cost twice as much and not twice as fast.

Why would you want one card when 2 can give you 30%+ more performance?

 

[surya]

I dont get why are people buying a pair.

Just great a freaking single video card. Buying pair in my view is a waste becuase it cost twice as much and not twice as fast.

Its not that I want it to be twice as fast. I just want to be able to play each and every game except for Crysis and Warhead of course at 2560 x 1600 with max settings. The 8800 Ultras did that for me. But now with Physx and the new technologies and stuff it cant do it anymore. Hence the reason to get 2. Also it scales a lot better than the 295 does. If you could show me a single card that could do what I need it to do then yeah I would be fine with just getting one.

long as it can handle the AMPs you should be ok. I have SLI 280s on an 800watt PSU.

Thanks for that info. Good to know. Gives me a bit more confidence in my purchase.

 

[revmedia]

Wish I could afford that setup, but then I'd need a new PSU...