Re: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get?

[Winterlight]

I have a couple of Asus 4970s running three monitors. I have had a 
lot of cooling problems with them, bad fans, and now I think one of 
them has other problems. How do they compare to the 5000 series. Can 
I get one video card that is good for games but will drive one 30 
inch and two 24 inch monitors, or will I always be using two video 
cards to handle this? thanks



-----Original Message-----
From: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com
[mailto:hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com] On Behalf Of Veech
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 10:04 AM
To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com
Subject: Re: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get?

ok I forgot to mention that my budget is around $300, and I see the ATI 5850

is available for that from NewEgg, any opinions?

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Boswell" <torazch...@gmail.com>
To: <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 02:16
Subject: Re: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get?


> the 8800GT has 112 shaders
> the 8800GTS320/640 has 96 shaders
> the 8800GTS512 has 128 shaders
>
>
> the GTS250 has 128 shaders, and has had a die shrink so it's cooler  and
> the clocks are a chunk higher, it's the one to get if you want an  nvidia
> card of that level IMO
>
> OR look at a radeon 4890, which will be around the same performance  level

> (I think) as your pair of 8800GTS's were and use a hell of a lot  less
> power... or even a 5770, which is a little slower (10% or so)  than the
> 4890 but runs cooler and has DX11 support for whenever you  eventually get

> off of XP
>
> On 8 Feb 2010, at 08:06:310, Veech wrote:
>
>> 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-Fr
oogle&cm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Video+Cards-_-BFG+Technologies-_-14143118
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- 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!!
>>>
>>
>