optimize 8600gt sli setup?

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nbovk951

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Im looking to get the most out of this sli setup. i have the evga 256 ddr3 cards. And no i didnt buy them togather. and I cannot trade up to the 8800gt.
I happened to pick up the second card really cheap so I figured why not right?
anyways I am not really seeing much improvement other than maybe a few more fps in crysis and bioshock(which i could run at full settings prior to sli)

Im really looking to optimize my crysis experience. I nice balance of quality and performance. Im running the latest drivers. I was using riva tuner but will it work properly with sli? and how to I monitor both cards temps well enough to overclock safely?
any help is appresiated
 
I think it's pretty optimistic to think of any significant improvement in FPS with SLI'ing 8600s, especially on games like Crysis...at least you got the second card for cheap?

What resolution do you game at?
 
How about you toss those 8600's on ebay and then buy a 3870 or 8800GT and eat the difference.
 
Another vote to sell them. There's zero reason to SLI anything lower than 8800 GTS 512MBs right now.
 
you cant you said your getting a few more fps thats all your going to get the 8600gt is not made for sli. it only has 256mb ram not much shaders or mem bandwidth. you could get more fps by selling the 2 8600gts and getting a 3850 i think
 
To assist the OP, since I had 8600GT's in SLI prior to getting the 8800GT.

What settings and frames are you getting in Crysis?

As far as optimizing your setup, make sure in your driver settings you are using single display perf mode, and all your settings are "Application specific" and set to "Quality"

Another thing is what motherboard/chipset are you running?

And as you can see, I sold them and moved up. Its a good recommendation, but I respect whatever reasons you had for getting them. I had them at the time too,
 
Another vote for selling them and getting an 8800gt 512. heck even the 9600gt 512 will be much better than 8600gt in sli. Even if sli was able to scale close to 100%, the 256mb and 128bit bus of the 8600gt will hold it back in games like Crysis .
 
hardly anyone has helped answer the op's question. i have not dabbled with sli but i will try to help.

are both games using their most recent patches? what is the rest of your system like? try a game that uses sli and then try that same game without sli to see if your cards are working properly.
 
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