Nvidia GTS 250 in SLI mode VS single ATI HD 4890

[Dekasav]

Just so you know, Neuspeed, daedalus is a pretty smart guy, and everything he's said here is pretty dead-on. Hence why I haven't said anything. And most regulars have their computer specs in the signature, too. Read around a little if you don't believe me, it's not just people with good rigs, people with older computers do it, too.

And before you say anything about me, personally, I'm going into my senior year of Computer Engineering (so that would be hardware work, not software).

 

[darkvine]

I don't mean to be but you ask people for help on if it would be a wise choice and when they tell you how it works and why a new mobo and CPU would benefit you more you complain they are giving "walls of text" that is call information, solid well thought about information to help you.

What it comes down to is yes. You should see some improvements with higher memory speeds like when you overclocked BUT that same speed on a new motherboard and CPU could be amazingly better. Your bottlenecking, an other words you aren't getting the full performance your card is giving you. You might see 1% when you really should be seeing 5%.

 

[FallenSniper]

I agree with everyone else...

And you should accept any help you can get, rather than asking for help and then disagreeing. The point of asking is to get the persons opinion, and if you don't value their opinion, you shouldn't be posting here in the first place.

 

[maximiza]

I still use a socket 939(opteron 185) with a 7800GTX sli set up. I am still thinking how to upgrade myself(after 2 years). It really depands on what you want to spend. even though my mobo is a pcie 1.0a I could run sli'ed GTX295. But is it worth it? My opinion would be to get a GTX275 before a sli of 2 GTS250's for today. But when DX11 comes out in 2 months the prices are going to drop big time on current tech. my current problem is UT3, my cards can't do it at 1920 x 1200 fully maxed. The one advantage for say having a GTX285 is that when you see a slow down you know its not the video card, its the CPU or other mobo limitations. Spending 200 or 300 dollars is different then spending $800 or more on a new system.