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runLoganrun

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Looking at new mobo's, I'm pretty much looking at the DFI SLI Expert. But, I would be able to buy 2 of the 7950GT's, or one of the 7950GTX's, so I would consider the Ultra-D also. The question is which one would give better perfomance, if any. It's slightly more for 2 7950GT's than one 7950GTX. Is the performance going to be better in this case for the SLI versus single PCI-X slot?
 
The 7950GT's should out perform the 7950GTX's but you loose the ability to throw in another card later. I do not know much about quad SLi so I will let some people wiht it chime in.
 
If you're lucky you may even be able to pick up two 7900GTOs, which would beat out two 7950GTs in SLI by a decent margin.
 
Cpt Twitchy said:
The 7950GT's should out perform the 7950GTX's but you loose the ability to throw in another card later. I do not know much about quad SLi so I will let some people wiht it chime in.
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So, you're saying the 7950GTX is the pimpest, but why not get the SLI board anyway so I can upgrade to two of them maybe?

What about the upcoming DX10, that I think will be used with Vista. Have to get whole new video cards for that right. It would be a drag to shell out a bunch of bucks on these cards, only to be left wanting for the new DX10 stuff. Which is always the case with the new cards they are putting out, for one reason or another, but here it seems more significant.
 
@ runLoganrun, sorry I completely spaced on the mobo part. Either way you go I would recomend an sli mobo unless you feel comfortable modding an ultra-d. Also If you wait just a couple more weeks the 8800's will be out and severely out perform the 79X0 series.
 
Cpt Twitchy said:
@ runLoganrun, sorry I completely spaced on the mobo part. Either way you go I would recomend an sli mobo unless you feel comfortable modding an ultra-d. Also If you wait just a couple more weeks the 8800's will be out and severely out perform the 79X0 series.
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Are they going to be DX10?
 
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