Hello James, Saturday, November 22, 2008, 4:04:03 AM, you wrote:
> hi, > Your P35 chipset mainboard doesn't support SLI, it DOES support > crossfire, you can run a pair of radeons (the X2 notwithstanding, > whilst that uses crossfire, it's a single board and will work on > anything with a PCI-E slot) but a second Geforce will only operate in > a "drive another monitor" capacity Ahhh very good. So it looks like I need to look at dual 4870's v. a 4870X2... > the 4870 1GB is also a very big performance hike over an 8800GTX, but > the 4870X2 is totally in a world of it's own as far as sheer > maximumfastness goes. > One thing to watch for is, a full length dual height heatsink can > cause issues with SATA ports... Yeah, and it would be the final and only upgrade I would do to this system. When the WoW thing comes to an end I am getting out, forever. > *googles* > Looks like your ports are out of the overlap zone though. > My P5K-E/Wifi-AP is.. not so lucky :( I appreciate knowing that, I'll double check just to be sure. Maybe space will determine if I go dual 4870's or a 4870X2. I get 460 price on duals and 530 on the single X2.... that's a lot of money, but will I suffer in performance? -- Regards, joeuser - Still looking for the 'any' key... "...now these points of data make a beautiful line..."
