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GeForce 8800GTX Performance
Quantum:
--- Quote from: texasboy on January 08, 2007, 08:35:27 am ---What is the difference between running 2x 6800GS GLH factory ovetclocked cards 512 mb SLI (bridged) for one 8800GTX which costs 4 times as much. The Mobo can take it, the performance is more than adequate for most games. Is this a designer thing? I can still over clock my cards to more rhan compete with this.
cheers
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... to be honest a 8800GTX probably runs 4x as fast, and where on earth are you finding 6800GS for less than £60? SLI doesn't provide you twice the power by a long way, that 512mb of RAM will be very slow and have much higher latency than than the 768mbs or ram on the 8800 GTX, the 8800 GTX can run DirectX 10...
Essentially you can play games in higher graphical settings? New games like oblivion can be played in almost max setting at very high resolutions, your set-up just wouldn't be able to handle that.
Not trying to be harsh here, just explaining the difference.
Synbios:
SLI is a horrible horrible idea. It was done many years ago and failed, what makes people think it works today? Graphics cards are released so frequently it is often more cost effective and you can get much better performance by just buying the new card rather than trying to SLI.
Some people can have good use for it but IMO it's useless.....
Yes I understand that they just wanted to make things more powerful, but instead of having dual graphics cards, what about dual core? We all know that dual (quad now, and eventually more) core processors are the next generation. When are we going to see a dual core graphics card? Processors are hitting the roof with speed, so we just have to make more of them now. It's not like years ago when Intel came out with a new processor every 6 months that was 1 Ghz faster.
TheNightWatchman:
EDIT: Whoops missed the new page!
I think the only benefit I can see to SLI is to increase the amount of screens you have, but surely a dual core video card with extra outputs would be a much betters solution like you say Synbios!
Do you know much about power needed to render in video editing?
Quantum:
--- Quote from: Synbios on January 08, 2007, 03:53:02 pm ---Yes I understand that they just wanted to make things more powerful, but instead of having dual graphics cards, what about dual core? We all know that dual (quad now, and eventually more) core processors are the next generation. When are we going to see a dual core graphics card? Processors are hitting the roof with speed, so we just have to make more of them now. It's not like years ago when Intel came out with a new processor every 6 months that was 1 Ghz faster.
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Quad-core is a little like SLi at the moment, there's no native solution and therefore it doesn't provide the same benefits as jumping to dual core did (assuming you didn't get an early Pentium D).
Dual Core would be nice, but it's a matter of heat and how much it's worth it. While the acceleration in CPU speeds has slowed down to such a point that to take the slack they are putting more cores in, GPUs aren't slowing down at all. My house mate has a project of programming a particle physics engine on to a graphics card, GPUs have advanced so fast compared to CPUs if they can fully utilize this then they would be able to do the same amount of work on an 8800GTX that it would normally take a Cray Super Computer to do.
texasboy:
--- Quote from: Quantum on January 08, 2007, 08:58:29 am ---
--- Quote from: texasboy on January 08, 2007, 08:35:27 am ---What is the difference between running 2x 6800GS GLH factory ovetclocked cards 512 mb SLI (bridged) for one 8800GTX which costs 4 times as much. The Mobo can take it, the performance is more than adequate for most games. Is this a designer thing? I can still over clock my cards to more rhan compete with this.
cheers
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... to be honest a 8800GTX probably runs 4x as fast, and where on earth are you finding 6800GS for less than £60? SLI doesn't provide you twice the power by a long way, that 512mb of RAM will be very slow and have much higher latency than than the 768mbs or ram on the 8800 GTX, the 8800 GTX can run DirectX 10...
Essentially you can play games in higher graphical settings? New games like oblivion can be played in almost max setting at very high resolutions, your set-up just wouldn't be able to handle that.
Not trying to be harsh here, just explaining the difference.
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Thought for the day.
Second Place : Chris Eaves
"When I first saw the screen shots for Oblivion I knew that a vision I had many years ago while playing MUDs at college had finally come to pass. I remember sitting in class and imagining what it would be like to see the MUDs I was playing in full 3D through the eyes of my character. I never dreamed it would be possible. That was until Oblivion. Before I ever purchased the game I knew that I was going to need a super system to due the game justice. I had been playing with an ATI for the past year with ok performance but had kept my eye on Nvidia and where they were headed. I knew when I read the specs for SLI that Nvidia had what I needed to make Oblivion come alive. After carefully reading the instructions for building an SLI system I set forth on a mission. After purchasing an Intel 840 3.2GHz EE (I'm a die hard Intel fan.), 2 BFG 7800s, an Asus P5ND2-SLI MB, 2GB of Corsair 800MHz RAM, and a Koolance Exos water cooling system I was ready to build my machine. I quickly stripped my old system down and went to work building my dream machine to play a dream game. Judgment day arrived. I loaded up Oblivion with that little kid anticipation for what I hoped to be a dream come true. I immediately set the graphics to the max on everything as I had no intention of seeing even a single screen without all the glory the game had to offer. I have never been more emotional with a game than what I proceeded to experience when exiting the introductory dungeon and beheld the world of Oblivion. I spent the next hour simply exploring with my mouth in a silly grin and goose bumps all over my body. My NVIDIA SLI system ran like a champ with no discernable lag as my gaping eyes continually marveled at the graphics flickering before my eyes. All my thanks go out to all the people at NVIDIA whose labor of love have provided me with such great joy in a world where it's in short supply. Keep up the great work!"
The 6800GS GLH Gol;den Sample edition is similar to tyhe 7800 and it would seem strange that my rig would not run "oblivion" comfortably. I will purchase "Oblivion" and let you know what my daughter Katrina thinks of the graphics and performance.
cheers
PS,The drivers were able to correctly install the card on the first try, and automatically prompted me to enable the SLI portion of my system, and I have been in gaming heaven ever since. In fact the only thing better than my SLI setup would be a QUAD SLI setup
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