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Xar
03-11-2008, 05:49 PM
Does anyone know of any good tech articles comparing these cards?

Right now the GTX N831 is roughly $130 more than a G92 GTS card but has more memory and higher memory bandwidth (based on the sales sheets). I'm going for 2 so I can run 4 wow's on 1 and a large wow (1920x1600) on 1 card. I want insane frame rate possibilities on my main screen and at least 20fps on my 4 that run on the other with little or no graphics lag when walking around cities.

So...does anyone run a similar setup on 2 8800GTS's? I read that once you hit 1920x1600 you should go GTX but it seems they still use the old chips at this time. I also want to SLI sometimes and play UT3.

Thanks.
Bollwerk
03-12-2008, 12:32 PM
http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/12/12/geforce_8800_gts_512_mb/


Bottom line is that the 8800GTS 512 (g92) is only a slight bit slower than the older 8800GTX, but is considerably cheaper.

Edit - I was mistaken about the 8800GTS 512 (g92) taking up a single slot. It looks like it is a double slot, like the 8800GTX and 8800 Ultra.
Xar
03-12-2008, 06:07 PM
THANK YOU!!!

That helped a lot, appreciate the link.
Sarduci
03-19-2008, 04:54 PM
That's the article i used to base my choice off of. It is a 2 slot, there are 3rd party cooling kits to make it a single slot but they are expensive and most of them are water cooling. Personally I did not like the one fan kit conversion I saw.
Shigan5
03-20-2008, 10:40 AM
Does anyone know of any good tech articles comparing these cards?

Right now the GTX N831 is roughly $130 more than a G92 GTS card but has more memory and higher memory bandwidth (based on the sales sheets). I'm going for 2 so I can run 4 wow's on 1 and a large wow (1920x1600) on 1 card. I want insane frame rate possibilities on my main screen and at least 20fps on my 4 that run on the other with little or no graphics lag when walking around cities.

So...does anyone run a similar setup on 2 8800GTS's? I read that once you hit 1920x1600 you should go GTX but it seems they still use the old chips at this time. I also want to SLI sometimes and play UT3.

Thanks.

Just to let you know in order to run dual monitor you have to turn SLI off, when you enable it it turns off the dualview/multi-monitor support, so in order to use a second monitor you have to disable sli.