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Gareth
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13th Dec 07 at 21:39   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Is it best to have 1x £300 card or 2x £150 cards SLI

Its to run 2x 42" Plasma monitors.

Ta
Cosmo
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What for exactly...gaming?
Gareth
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13th Dec 07 at 23:47   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Yes m8. Come on guys who runs 1 high spec or 2 medium spec!
Cosmo
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at the moment dual cards are fairly poor for gaming, and from the reviews Ive seen of dual card systems they are generally outperformed by higher specced singled card systems.
Russ
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1 good card
Gareth
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14th Dec 07 at 00:21   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
ok cheers

Going for this one then:

Nvidia 8800GTX 768MB GDDR3

Get abit of change out of 300 notes

Anyfeed back
Cosmo
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If you are running two 42" screens then I'd imagine the GTX is your only choice. Otherwise I'd consider the new GTS, this article on it is fairly good...

http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTQzMSwxLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==
John
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42" plasma will probably only be 1024x768, thats not too hard to run, a gts will run at that res no probs.
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If you go Radeon then tests of 2 x HD 3870's look promising.

A single HD 3870 is just about as good if not better in most areas, than the older HD2900 and is nearly half the price.

Waiting for the overclocked Gecube version to come out then am getting 2 for approx £320.

There is already a bios release for them to push them close to 900Mhz each.

[Edited on 14-12-2007 by _Allan_]
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in gaming though they arent really much use, not with current games anyway. You are much much better off going with one great one rather than 2 good ones.
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Dunno but my xmas games list includes:

Crysis, HL Orange Box and Unreal Tournament 3. Some higher bench marks have been gained with SLi or Crossfire with these newer games.
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Crysis is the only one I have seen mentioned that MAY take a slight advantage from a mutlicard setup, but even so its not really going to be much of a jump above two good cards when compared to one great card.

If it was me I really wouldnt bother with a multicard setup until the next gen of them are released and games are really taking advantage of them.
Deadude
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how far back are you planning on sitting with 2 x 42" screens lol will look awesome
also ocuk had a good offer on a 8800GTX
www.overclockers.co.uk
Gareth
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15th Dec 07 at 22:21   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Right next to the fookers

Think im just going to splash out on 2x 8800 GTX's in SLI

At least i wont be disappointed then

_Allan_
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Gareth as a child



[Edited on 16-12-2007 by _Allan_]
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Multi monitor dont work in SLI, so you wont be doing that.

Either way, how high is the res on the screen? The size of them means nothing at all.
Gareth
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Thats pants no SLI for multi mon's
The programmers need to push the boat out abit!

Not sure on res proberly poor these babys are nearly 5 years old

The 8800GTX has landed its got this stupid handle on it goin to have to remove that to fit the fooker in :rolleyes
simon179
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is abit silly u cant run sli wen ur running dual visuals!
Gareth
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17th Dec 07 at 22:10   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote
Tell me about it! I wont be buying another till they sort the software out

 
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