Worth it? 6800gt-sli -> 7600gt or 7950gt?

[cfineman]

Contemplating an upgrade to get a little better gaming performance on my current rig. I have an fx55/a8n-sli premium with a pair of evga 6800gt's. I get in the low 4000's in 3dmark06... nearly 10k in 3dmark05. I was pretty much middle of the pack for similar systems with the 7950/fx55 but there were only 5 other comparables so it's not statistically valid.

I picked up a passive 7950gt (XFX extreme) for a home theater system I'm putting together (wanted something I might do mild gaming on and I got a good deal on this).

I put it my rig to see how it did (don't have all the HTPC parts yet) and was a bit disappointed in the performance... only ~4600 3dmark06.

Bottom line is, what are folks experiences with the 7600gt and 7950gt? I had assumed the next generation of graphics cards would have given me more significant gains.

Do folks think moving from a pair of 6800gt's to a single 7600gt or 7950gt really ought to be an "upgrade"? (I have not spent much time tuning yet).

 

[Munky]

A single 7600gt is only slightly faster than a single 6800gt, so going 6800gt SLI -> single 7600gt is definitely a downgrade. A single 7950gt will be faster than 6800gt SLI, but not by much.

 

[Stumps]

stick with your 6800GT's and save for a 8800.

 

[tuteja1986]

Originally posted by: Stumps
stick with your 6800GT's and save for a 8800.

 

[evolucion8]

Better save for an upgrade, most newer games today run even slower on the 6800 series SLI than many single cards, most of it is because nVidia is no longer updating SLI profiles on those series. Look for example in Oblivion, it runs on 6800 GT SLI even slower than a X850XT PE. http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics....elx=33&model1=537&model2=565&chart=211

 

[QuantumPion]

wait for a dx10 card...

 

[Noema]

Originally posted by: Stumps
stick with your 6800GT's and save for a 8800GTX.