SLI'd 6600gt's vs single 6800gt

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CleanSlate

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I have noticed alot of confusion on people's parts about which is better to buy and since I don't have the time to sit down and do an extensive link posting session I'm just going to state it and hope that you go out and do your own research on it.

Buying a 6800gt is better than buying dual 6600gt's for many reasons... Please discuss and post links so that I don't have to.

~Adam
 
CleanSlate said:
I have noticed alot of confusion on people's parts about which is better to buy and since I don't have the time to sit down and do an extensive link posting session I'm just going to state it and hope that you go out and do your own research on it.

Buying a 6800gt is better than buying dual 6600gt's for many reasons... Please discuss and post links so that I don't have to.

~Adam
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OK, you are right and wrong for many reasons.

Reasons you are wrong:
6600GT SLI is faster at some SLI supported games. (e.g. HL2 and Halo)
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/gf6800u-sli_19.html

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/msi_nx6800/page7.asp

6600GT SLI is faster at high resolution, ie. 16X12>
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/nvidia_nforce4_intel_edition/page18.asp

6600GT SLI has better video acceleration features
http://www.nvidia.com/page/purevideo_support.html

Reasons you are right:
6800GT is faster at non SLI supported games
6800GT is faster at some SLI supported games
6800GT is probably more cost efficient path to 6800GT SLI (obviously not a factor if you're going to stick with one 6800GT)
 
Pwnd? Haha, being right is not important as long as people are being told what's right. Oh I'm sorry was that maturity haha, "pwn" me all you want as long as the truth comes out. Some people are men enough to admit when they are wrong about things :). Not that I am wrong, I haven't checked the links but if I am, by all means I'd be wrong. And might I add happy about it.

~Adam
 
yes, from the benchmarks i saw. A single 6800 wins in quite a few cases. But 6600 SLI pulls ahead in some games under certain circumstances. But not by a lot. it's very marginal. Overall they are very close to the same.
 
i guess it depends on what you want...personally i would go with the single 6800 so i could add another later when i needed more power...but i guess if you hafta have sli now and are on a budget...
 
I assume by 6800 you mean the "GT". I have 6600GT SLI and it works great. Plus (at the time when I got it few months back) it was only $380 for 2 6600GT's and $450 for 1 6800GT PCI-E. Adding in the fact that 17" and 19" LCD's run natively at 1280x1024 anyway, it made sense for me to get the 6600GT's which run most things fine at 1280x1024 with eye-candy.
 
CleanSlate said:
Pwnd? Haha, being right is not important as long as people are being told what's right. Oh I'm sorry was that maturity haha, "pwn" me all you want as long as the truth comes out. Some people are men enough to admit when they are wrong about things :). Not that I am wrong, I haven't checked the links but if I am, by all means I'd be wrong. And might I add happy about it.

~Adam
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I don't think I "pwnd" you or tried to, just offered info that showed it's not a black and white issue.

The 6600GT SLI is a better rig than most give it credit for, that's all I was trying to illustrate.

Which is "better" depends on the application and setting.
 
IMO "better" would be leaving expansion slot for another 6800gt while keeping about the same performance.

The 6800gt is the obvious choice to me IFF you care about expansion otherwise it still is because of 1. psu requirements are probably pretty bad for sli'd 6600gts 2. heat.

~Adam
 
6600GTs win at lower res.

Once you get higher res, a single 6800GT or X800XL wins
 
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