Shovels Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 OK, I'm gonna be upgrading my PC to an Athlon 64 skt 939. The computer is used for work purposes, but I want it to play games at a good frame rate. I've seen loads of boards that support SLI, but this appears to be in conjunction with Nvidia cards (and I'm a bit of an ATI fan) I can't seem to find any really good sites to advise whether it's worth getting SLI - Is two GPU's going to be much better than just one??? A few reviews seem to indicate that the CPU is the slowest part when you have two GPU's so I guess the main question is Nvidia or ATI? Then secondly what MB would you get? Ohh yeh and it's going to be PCI-e Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fifty Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 Hi M8 Just upgraded myself and put in one Saphire X800GT02 card (can be easily modded) see http://www.overclockers.co.uk forums ATI cards)- cost 150ish.; AFIK this can be SLI as my ASus borad supports this but I havent bothered yet.. Using AMD 3400 and can handle all games; goes like stink. eg Flightsim runs 100+fps now and thats a shit bit of coding; runs Rear no problem. 52:love: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattSZ Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 As for SLI its only worth it if you have a large screen capable of more than 1280x1024 otherwise its just a waste. I have a 7800GT card and 3800xp and I can play any game on best quality at a minium 60fps or more at 1280x1024. Also the card has o/c to over 500mhz and the cpu runs at 2.5ghz on both cores Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shovels Posted December 9, 2005 Author Share Posted December 9, 2005 SLI only work with Nvidia cards right? and ATI is bringing out CrossFire to complete? Fifty - I've been really tempted by the GTO - read quite a bit about it's overclocking Matt - My screens only go up to 1280 x 1024 - but I really want to be able to run at full res with high detail due to TFT's native res issues. 50 - What res do you normally run games at? 1024? 1280? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shovels Posted December 9, 2005 Author Share Posted December 9, 2005 nuts - clicked twice Reading more - wouldn't I be better off going for a board that supports crossfire and an ATI video card or a board that supports SLI and Nvidia video card? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattSZ Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 nuts - clicked twice Reading more - wouldn't I be better off going for a board that supports crossfire and an ATI video card or a board that supports SLI and Nvidia video card? Yes if you get a sli board and sli card you can always upgrade for more power later. SLI is a bit more flexible than crossfire as you need two cards of the same type eg 2x7800gt's but for crossfire you need a master card and a normal card. I also think theres alot more choice of SLI boards compared to crossfire ones at the moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shovels Posted December 9, 2005 Author Share Posted December 9, 2005 Yes if you get a sli board and sli card you can always upgrade for more power later. SLI is a bit more flexible than crossfire as you need two cards of the same type eg 2x7800gt's but for crossfire you need a master card and a normal card. I also think theres alot more choice of SLI boards compared to crossfire ones at the moment I've heard really good reviews of the 6600GT is it worth spending more and getting the 6800GT? I can't bring myself to buy a 7800GT for £250 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattSZ Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 defently worth the extra for the 6800gt most 6800gt's will o/c to ultra speeds and somtimes even more. But I have also heard goodthings about the 850gto especially the one that has the 850xt core the Sapphire ATI Radeon X800 GTO² 256MB DDR3 http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/X800PCI_Series.html its on that website i've heard its a very good overclocker if you get a good one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fifty Posted December 9, 2005 Share Posted December 9, 2005 Shovels CARD IS X800GTO 2 default 400/490 clocks to 535/630 with stock cooler; unlocks to 16 pipes with iso on the o/c site - easy. run Fear at 1280 MFS at 1600 no probs. 52 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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