Originally posted by: Unkno
i would say get either the X1800XT or a SINGLE GTX, no point in purposely buying two cards at one time.
Originally posted by: Elfear
Thanks for the results deadseasquirrel. Looks like performance for the SLI'd 7800GTs is pretty good.
Originally posted by: Unkno
i would say get either the X1800XT or a SINGLE GTX, no point in purposely buying two cards at one time.
Well I have a single 7800GTX right now but after seeing the performance of the X1800XT in the games I play and coupled with the image quality improvements, I think it would be worth the extra $100 or so. Thing is for almost the same amount of money I can get SLI'd 7800GTs which should offer better performance than the X1800XT. The only downside is that since I'm watercooling my chip and gpu I'd have to get another block for the second card and probably another pump since my current one wouldn't keep up with three blocks. Decisions, decisions.
Originally posted by: Cheesetogo
Originally posted by: Elfear
Thanks for the results deadseasquirrel. Looks like performance for the SLI'd 7800GTs is pretty good.
Originally posted by: Unkno
i would say get either the X1800XT or a SINGLE GTX, no point in purposely buying two cards at one time.
Well I have a single 7800GTX right now but after seeing the performance of the X1800XT in the games I play and coupled with the image quality improvements, I think it would be worth the extra $100 or so. Thing is for almost the same amount of money I can get SLI'd 7800GTs which should offer better performance than the X1800XT. The only downside is that since I'm watercooling my chip and gpu I'd have to get another block for the second card and probably another pump since my current one wouldn't keep up with three blocks. Decisions, decisions.
Although the X1800XT runs many of the current games better, that doesn't really matter very much because for the most part your comparing frame rates such as 50fps vs 65fps. But in some the newer games like FEAR, the 7800 beats the X1800XT, and this time your comparing 30fps to 20 fps. I would suggest a single GTX.
Originally posted by: Elfear
Thanks for the suggestions guys. I found a couple 7800GTs for ~$500 is the reason I'm actually interested. Tough choice since the 7800GT's will generally be faster than one X1800XT and cost less now than the X1800XT will be at launch. I can probably sell my current BFG 7800GTX for $400-450 so the 7800GT's wouldn't be much more.
Originally posted by: Elfear
Thanks for the suggestions guys. I found a couple 7800GTs for ~$500 is the reason I'm actually interested. Tough choice since the 7800GT's will generally be faster than one X1800XT and cost less now than the X1800XT will be at launch. I can probably sell my current BFG 7800GTX for $400-450 so the 7800GT's wouldn't be much more.
Originally posted by: Rollo
Originally posted by: Elfear
Thanks for the suggestions guys. I found a couple 7800GTs for ~$500 is the reason I'm actually interested. Tough choice since the 7800GT's will generally be faster than one X1800XT and cost less now than the X1800XT will be at launch. I can probably sell my current BFG 7800GTX for $400-450 so the 7800GT's wouldn't be much more.
Dude that is not a choice at all- that is a "Do it now before the deal goes away!"
Originally posted by: Elfear
Originally posted by: Rollo
Originally posted by: Elfear
Thanks for the suggestions guys. I found a couple 7800GTs for ~$500 is the reason I'm actually interested. Tough choice since the 7800GT's will generally be faster than one X1800XT and cost less now than the X1800XT will be at launch. I can probably sell my current BFG 7800GTX for $400-450 so the 7800GT's wouldn't be much more.
Dude that is not a choice at all- that is a "Do it now before the deal goes away!"
That's the way I'm leaning and I guess the only thing holding me back is the curiosity factor with the X1800XT. If it proves to be a monster overclocker, like some of the results I've seen, than I think it would give a couple 7800GTs a run for their money. Of course, I could always oc the 7800GTs but I haven't seen any results for those yet.
Yup......Originally posted by: tekkitan
can you run two gtx's in sli mode?
Originally posted by: tekkitan
can you run two gtx's in sli mode?
Originally posted by: tekkitan
then why doesnt Elfear just buy another gtx
Originally posted by: tekkitan
why not just wait til you can afford another one? hopefully you arent that desperate to squeeze out a few more frames?
Originally posted by: Elfear
What I'm really curious about is the advantage the extra 256MB of ram and higher memory bandwidth of the X1800XT has over 7800GTs at 1920x1200 4AA/16AF. I'll have to see if I can scare up some benchmarks comparing the two at that res or higher.
Originally posted by: Regs
700-800 dollars for 7800 GT's...hmmm. Not bad considering ATI's top offering is 600+ ?
Originally posted by: deadseasquirrel
From what I can see, while it does handle itself well against a single GTX, it doesn't stand a chance against an SLI configuration.
FiringSquad has some interesting numbers:
Yes, it's all Quake4, but, seriously, ATI is really holding their own on this one. So, I don't consider this an nV-slanted game anymore since ATI released their update that truly does give 30% in some settings.
2048x1536 4xAA 8xAF
x1800XT............47.9
single GTX.........35.1
single GT...........28.4
SLI GTs............70.0
and for those of us still on SLI 6800gt/u, we're holding on ok
SLI 6800u..........44.0
If I were you, I'd grab the GTs. They're out now and at a great price from what you say (and might even be cheaper than the XT when it arrives), and it looks like your system is ready for SLI already, so it should be very simple. And, at 1900x1200 and higher, they look to outperform the single XT quite well.
If you don't jump all over it, how about letting me know where to grab 'em so I can
Yep, quoting myself here. It looks like I've made a mistake. FS's article pages are mislabeled and I didn't correlate the page title to the chart title. The page title here says "Q4 SLI Ultra Performance", but the charts are labeled in "High Quality", with the Ultra being on the previous page (which is out of order since they listed from High to Ultra in the previous pages).Originally posted by: deadseasquirrel
From what I can see, while it does handle itself well against a single GTX, it doesn't stand a chance against an SLI configuration.