GTX 260 SLI or not?

[vmardegan]

Guys,

Could you please help me with this question that is bugging me a lot...

I'm planning to upgrade my computer and everything seems to be already defined, except for the video cards.

Upgraded system will be an I7 920, 12gb Ram, 6 HDs, Corsair 1000HX PSU, X-Fi Titanium and all the other basic stuff. (using parts that I already have plus some that I'll buy).

Right now I'm running a pair of 8800GT SLI in a 24" monitor 1900x1200 and a 19" 1280x1024, playing games like Crysis, Fear 2, Fallout3, GTAIV, World in Conflict and others...

Also I do a lot of video encoding, media server, background downloads, photos, backup, web surfing, etc... almost all at the same time.

Now the question is:

Should I:

- Buy a pair of GTX 260 216SP and SLI it, keeping one 8800GT for Physx only,

- Buy one GTX 285 (or the 275), keep the 8800GT for Physx and wait many months to SLI the GTX 285,

- Keep the 8800GT SLI in the upgraded system and wait for something else better to come up later this year,

- Give up on Nvidia/Physx and go with an ATI setup...

I would like to have a computer that would play games at 1900x1200 (not planning to change the monitor in years...), with or without AA (I don't care that much about AA, as long I have all the details/special effects enabled) and 30+/60+ FPS (depending on the game, of course) for, at least, a couple of years...

My budget for the VCards is about 340ish USD.

Thanks!

 

[Outlander_04]

I'd always buy one card that does the job rather than two where you almost always dont get good value from the second card

 

[theblade]

Keep the 8800GT SLI and wait for something better to come out.

 

[halcyon]

Is your current SLI setup really not performing to your satisfaction?

 

[vmardegan]

Currently is working fine. I have played all the games that I wanted at very good settings. The reason that I'm upgrading is because I started to do a lot of video encoding and my dual-core is sweating hard... (E8400 OCed 3.6).

Given that, I want to upgrade to a quad core, upgrade my case to a Cosmos S (I fell in love after I saw one in real life) and I was thinking if it would be a good time to upgrade the Vcards as well and do the whole work one time only...

BTW, thanks for all the replies so far!

 

[padlius]

Wait for something better to come out. Wait for Direct X 11 supporting card. I fell in love with Coolermaster HAF 932 I saw cosmos in the shop it seemed too big.