mpasternak

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so i made about 1500 in vegas last week. and deciding what to spend it on.i'm thinking of another (again) upgrade.

currently i'm on a 3700+ on a Nforce3 ultra chipset with an AGP 6800GT. powering a 20.1" LCD capable of 1600x1200 w/ 12ms response

what i'm debating is replacing the Mobo and getting 2 7800GT's in SLI or 1 7800GTX.

would i get a huge boost in performance with the 2 video cards over the 6800GT or is it negligable. keep in mind i'm maxed at 1600x1200
 
anything "dual" - like 2 cards, 2 cpu's, 2 hard drives - you double your chance to run into problems. Will 2 graphics cards be noticable? Eh, maybe - kind of like 2 hard drives in raid 0. Is it noticable? not really ... might load things a little faster i guess. *shrugs*

2 graphics cards, what will that do? get you a higher frame rate? so what ...

so question is do you want to brag and say "hey i got 2 graphics cards" or are you actually looking for a performance gain - if its the later - just buy the best single card you can find thats super fast. You'll benefit more from that than the hassles and crashes of 2 video cards.

This "multi" hype is crap - don't get trapped. companies just want you to buy 2 cards for the same performance of 1. Doubles their bottom line.

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cefoskey

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Boy do I ever agree with that. ATI should not have jumped on the multi card bandwagon.

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cleeve

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SLI and Xfire are useless unless you can't accept playing in less than 1600x1200+ resolution, or if you want to show off.

Still shows a performance DECREASE in some titles, you won't see me on that bandwagon until the bugs are worked out to the point where it natively gives a boost to EVERYTHING.

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margag_

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Not...
No enjoyable performance boost with high end cards like your's 100+ frames per sec is far enough.
take some time off the job with the cash and play !

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cleeve

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Wait a minute... you made $1500.00 in Vegas, and you didn't spend it on hookers?

Wow. That's self control!

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Go get the 7800 GTX for right now and then get another one down the road when they get cheaper. Just one 7800 GTX can run anything with all the eye-candy enabled.

2 7800gt is a huge boost over 1 6800gt but so would 1 7800gtx.

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dhlucke

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You probably could have squeezed a half way decent, one eyed, peg legged, $2 hooker with a glass eye in your budget there.

Nice job anyways though.

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