8800 gt question.

[Skuggomann]

Hi right now i have a MSI NX 7600gt grapic card and a 450W powersuppyer and im getting FPS laggspikes wen i go into populated places and i cant enter major citys,

So my solution is to get a nVidia GeForce 8800GT, 512 MB and usign the old one via SLI (or jsut skippign the old one compleatly)

Now i have 2 questions:
1. Does it work to SLI thous grapics card or do they not liek each other? XD
2. Is my powersupply big enough?



ram 1gb, gota update that too :S
cpu is amd dual core +3200

[Los]

Iiak sli was same gfx cards and the ati variant crossfire can handle different types, though they must support crossfire.

Im more interested in your cpu/ram situation, because that gfx card should suffice.

[binkiebink]

power supply should be fine

[Ughmahedhurtz]

If you have less than 2GB of system ram, old ATA IDE hard drives or a dual-channel DDR2 motherboard with broken BIOS, your video card won't fix that.

[Diamndzngunz]

Just a FYI I believe the 8800Gt's are PCI express 2.0. Remember that

[sorrowharvester]

Just a FYI I believe the 8800Gt's are PCI express 2.0. Remember that

This, although mine will work in a PCI-E x16 slot. And you're power supply will NOT do!
Read my post in General called "Hellish Upgrade"

[amalgam]

Your wattage is close to the bare minimum for the card. I went for a 650W PSU for mine and it works beautifully. Make sure it can supply roughly 26 or 28 amps for the card.

[Lost Ninja]

Do the RAM thing first.

I noticed an immediate improvement from 1Gb to 2Gb (went 3Gb but my old RAM and new didn't like each other. )

[d0z3rr]

Wattage doesn't matter as much as how many amps are on the +12v rail. There should be a requirement for that somewhere for the specs of the video card. Pretty sure there is a sticker on your PSU that shows the number of amps on +12v.

I would recommend a new PSU if you decide to buy a 8800gt.

I wouldn't get the 8800gt though, I would add more RAM to your computer.

You cannot SLI different series of cards, they must be exactly the same.

[amalgam]

Wattage doesn't matter as much as how many amps are on the +12v rail. There should be a requirement for that somewhere for the specs of the video card. Pretty sure there is a sticker on your PSU that shows the number of amps on +12v.

I would recommend a new PSU if you decide to buy a 8800gt.

I wouldn't get the 8800gt though, I would add more RAM to your computer.

You cannot SLI different series of cards, they must be exactly the same.

This.