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Tacitrain

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I currently run a single 8800 gts 320mb card in my machine, and I have been looking at some of the other geforce cards tonight. Would I see much improvement in gaming with a new card, like the 9800gtx? Could I SLI a 8800gts 320mb with a 8800gts 512mb(or a 8800 320mb OC)? How would 2 8800gts cards in SLI stack up to the new cards?

Iv heard of people using their old 8 series cards for PhysX, what is that all about?

Any advice or info would be welcome.

Also, my monitor is only a 22'' and has a max resolution of 1680 x 1050.
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700
Asus P5N-E SLI
4gigs corsair ddr2 ram
2x 7200rpm HD in raid 0
600 Watt ATX 12V Power Supply
vista ultimate
 
Look at either a 9800GTX+ or a GTX260 depending on your budget. The 9800GTX+ is good at 1680x1050, and the GTX260 is great.

I don't think you can SLI an 8800GTS 320MB with an 8800GTS 512MB, and it would be a bad idea if you could because you'd be limited to 320MB total and the clock speeds of the slower card. 320MB isn't very good for SLI setups because that's not enough RAM.

The 8800GTS 320MB should be great for dedicated PhysX. But I don't think that your PSU could handle both the old card and the new one at the same time (it's fine for either of the new cards I've mentioned).
 
Tacitrain said:
600 Watt ATX 12V Power Supply
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Which 600W PSU do you have?

Also I concur with evilsofa about the GPUS: You cannot SLI the 8800GTS 512MB with the 8800GTS 320MB since they're based on different GPUs (G92 for the 512MB and G80 for the 320/640MB).
 
Also, I think my main board only supports pci-e 1.1 x16? Are the 9800gtx+ cards backwards compatible, and with this information would it be worth it to upgrade from my 8800gts?

edit: ok I found out that the 2.0 cards work with 1.1 pcie

Still, what do you all think about upgrading to a 9800gtx+?
 
If you budget will stretch that far, the egg has an MSI 260 for $200. You'll get about 50% more card for only ~$30 more than with a 9800GTX+.
 
Danny Bui said:
Barely considering the quality of that particular CM 600W PSU.
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danny you got a link to a respectable review of that unit?

Every time I google "XXXXX review" where XXXXX is a PSU name or modle, I get fields and fields of these morons testing with with a computer which (at best) draws 500W and without a single god damned Oscope shot (I dont care which website you are if you work with electronics at all you own an oscope).

I think I'm going to go make a rant thread. Fields of terrible reviews...

anyways, moving away from that touchy subject:

the GTX 260 is a good pic, and Bluestorm is right, on occasion the GTX 260 will outperform the 9800GTX (or 9800GTX+) by 50% of the 9800's score. Its not that hard to imagine really, considering the specs of the two cards.
 
MrWizard6600 said:
danny you got a link to a respectable review of that unit?
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Unfortunately not anymore. The jonnyguru.com review of that PSU was lost when the site was upgrade/updated. Looks like no one has taken the time to put up a copy of that review on the new site.

That JonnyGuru review was linked in this thread:
http://www.jonnyguru.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1522&highlight=RP-600-PCAR

But from what I remember of that review and from nosing around the jonnyguru.com forums, that Extremepower 600W was a Seventeem 500W PSU highly over-rated by Coolermaster. Was only capable of 450W safely IIRC.

@ Tacitrain
The Corsair 750TX will be more than enough for your system and is a high quality PSU. However, for your system, all you need is a highly quality 500W to 550W like this:
BFG Tech LS-550 550W PSU - $67
 
BlueStorm said:
Actually it is 50% faster (or more) at higher resolutions where the 256bit memory interface and lack of framebuffer comes into play on the 512MB 9800.
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yeah at higher res I could see that but for the most part a gtx260 is only about 20% faster than the 9800gtx+. at low res like 1280 and with a crappy cpu there is likely to be nearly zero difference between them. heck the 9800gtx+ even has more texture fill rate than a gtx260.
 
Well I guess Ill find out how good the gtx260 is. I went ahead and bought the corsair 750 psu too, who knows what the future holds. The only thing that bothers me is that the 9800gtx+ has a 10billion better texture fill rate.
 
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