I'm thinking two of these 8800 GTs in SLI would work just fine.. opinions?
Seems like they might spec higher than the two GTS cards even though they
have 512MB RAM as opposed to 640MB on the GTS cards.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143118&nm_mc=OTC-Froogle&cm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Video+Cards-_-BFG+Technologies-_-14143118
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From: "Veech" <ve...@earthlink.net>
To: <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 23:28
Subject: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get?
I had two Geforce 8800GTS 640MB PCI-E cards in SLI in my system which was
built about 3 years ago. About 4 months ago one went bonkers, probably
overheated, so I removed it and am now running with just the other one. I
play a lot of Team Fortress 2 online and after a recent Steam update I was
getting some strange artifacting in the game and now am having trouble
staying connected, and often the game and the computer freeze and I have to
reboot. Oddly enough, the card seems to work fine under all other
conditions and apps such as internet, DVD movie playing etc, but when
playing TF2 online it goes nuts.
So I'm thinking it may be about to go and I should consider replacing it.
I haven't shopped for video cards in 3 years. I have an EVGA nForce 6801
SLI board and Core2 x6800 2.93G CPU, running XP Media Edition.
What would you folks recommend for replacement video cards? I would
probably stick with an SLI configuration unless a single ATI card
comparably priced would blow it away.
thanks!!
