- Jun 24, 2005
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Hi all, pleasure to be here amongst other geeks. It gives me a very comforting feeling
I am in the process of building a PC for school this fall, and I have decided on all of my hardware save one: The graphics card.
I had originally ordered a Sapphire x800 xl ultimate from ZipZoomFly, along with a good amount of my software, but it turns out they were out of stock (although it was clearly in stock on the site when i ordered)
Is this a sign from above? Could it mean that god him/herself is telling me not to buy this card? Divine intervention aside, this incident has made me go through a few dozen more reviews and forum threads, reading up on both cards.
The fact is, with a $325 price tag on the XL U ($280 for a regular XL), and a $170 price tage for an XFX 6600gt, I am faced with a dillema...should I go for a single x800 xl PCIe, with its 256 megs of vmem and beefy pipelines, or should I take two 6600 GT's and run them in SLI, for about the same price?
From the reviews I have read, the 6600 gt's in SLI mode generally smoke the x800 xl in theoretical benchmarks, and seesaw back and forth in games. The other thing I worry about is the future of the two cards, as in which card will be better suited to survive newer games and programs?
I would really appreciate any help on this.
Pan
I am in the process of building a PC for school this fall, and I have decided on all of my hardware save one: The graphics card.
I had originally ordered a Sapphire x800 xl ultimate from ZipZoomFly, along with a good amount of my software, but it turns out they were out of stock (although it was clearly in stock on the site when i ordered)
Is this a sign from above? Could it mean that god him/herself is telling me not to buy this card? Divine intervention aside, this incident has made me go through a few dozen more reviews and forum threads, reading up on both cards.
The fact is, with a $325 price tag on the XL U ($280 for a regular XL), and a $170 price tage for an XFX 6600gt, I am faced with a dillema...should I go for a single x800 xl PCIe, with its 256 megs of vmem and beefy pipelines, or should I take two 6600 GT's and run them in SLI, for about the same price?
From the reviews I have read, the 6600 gt's in SLI mode generally smoke the x800 xl in theoretical benchmarks, and seesaw back and forth in games. The other thing I worry about is the future of the two cards, as in which card will be better suited to survive newer games and programs?
I would really appreciate any help on this.
Pan