Dual 9600 GTs?

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andrewglass25

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I'm looking to upgrade my video card, The rest of my system is pretty good I currently have a 7950GT. I don't want to spend the money on like 2 8800ULTRA's or anything. Would it be better to go with dual 9600GT's or 8800GT's or just wait for lets say a 9800?
 
personaly i would just get 1 8800gts (512). then you wont have the hassle of drive issues. Its just easier with one card
 
to OP what resolution do you play your games? and what is your budget?
generally one faster card is better then two mid range cards .
 
At the moment 9600 GT SLI is good option since it scales very well; there doesn't seem to be any game that wouldn't make good use of those two cards [WoW and some other old games perhaps, but they ran with only one card at any realistic resolution].

9600 GT SLI wins 8800 Ultra and HD3870 X2 with small (10%) margin
 
I would do 2x8800 Evga gt's from zipzoomfly right now. They are on sale and you can apply the $30 coupon to each card you buy. Total purchase price would be around $360 ($180 each) not including shipping. Greater performance for the same price as the 9600's.
Word.
 
My humble recommendation would actually be to upgrade only when you have a game in mind you want to play.

I played Crysis on my old 8800 GTS 640, it got boring, then I upgraded to a G92 for no reason just to see it depreciate.

Prices will continue to fall, so unless you're putting together a whole new rig, I'd recommend delaying a purchase as long as possible.
 
I find that the 9600GT is much quieter than the 8800GT if that's of any concern to you. I use a G92-GTS in my main system, but have a 9600GT in a secondary, and it's great. The 8800 GT is a little faster, but much louder. I'm pretty picky about noise levels, so the 9600GT won in spite of being a little slower for me. (and by slower, I don't mean slow, it performs quite well)
 
Mid-range SLI=Waste of money and a pain in the ass.

Buy the highest end card you can possibly afford and save yourself several hassles. First off you won't have to deal with the few (notice I said few) games that have poor SLI scaling. You also won't have to burden yourself with an NVIDIA chipset based board and that right there is the main reason to avoid SLI. Generally speaking mid-range SLI doesn't scale as well with AA and AF as a higher end single card does.
 
300-500 is what I would like to spend around, I'm thinking about a new mobo but I have a e6600 and 4 gigs of good ram so I'm fine with all that. I just got a sweet 22 inch samsung monitor so I typical play maxed out on things.
 
One more question, What's the time frame on the next cards coming out, I guess it would be 9800's... right?
 
dan is right, its not worth the hassle at mid-range

with a 22inch monitor, you would be fine with just a 8800gts (g92) or even a GT if you want to save money.. I game on max settings with my 24 inch at 1920x1200 all the time without a hitch and im on an overclocked GT
the only game I can't handle on high settings is... yep you guessed it
CRYSIS
 
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