the 8800GT has 112 shaders
the 8800GTS320/640 has 96 shaders
the 8800GTS512 has 128 shaders
the GTS250 has 128 shaders, and has had a die shrink so it's cooler
and the clocks are a chunk higher, it's the one to get if you want an
nvidia card of that level IMO
OR look at a radeon 4890, which will be around the same performance
level (I think) as your pair of 8800GTS's were and use a hell of a lot
less power... or even a 5770, which is a little slower (10% or so)
than the 4890 but runs cooler and has DX11 support for whenever you
eventually get off of XP
On 8 Feb 2010, at 08:06:310, Veech wrote:
I'm thinking two of these 8800 GTs in SLI would work just fine..
opinions? Seems like they might spec higher than the two GTS cards
even though they have 512MB RAM as opposed to 640MB on the GTS cards.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143118&nm_mc=OTC-Froogle&cm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Video+Cards-_-BFG+Technologies-_-14143118
----- Original Message ----- From: "Veech" <ve...@earthlink.net>
To: <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 23:28
Subject: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get?
I had two Geforce 8800GTS 640MB PCI-E cards in SLI in my system
which was built about 3 years ago. About 4 months ago one went
bonkers, probably overheated, so I removed it and am now running
with just the other one. I play a lot of Team Fortress 2 online
and after a recent Steam update I was getting some strange
artifacting in the game and now am having trouble staying
connected, and often the game and the computer freeze and I have to
reboot. Oddly enough, the card seems to work fine under all other
conditions and apps such as internet, DVD movie playing etc, but
when playing TF2 online it goes nuts.
So I'm thinking it may be about to go and I should consider
replacing it. I haven't shopped for video cards in 3 years. I have
an EVGA nForce 6801 SLI board and Core2 x6800 2.93G CPU, running XP
Media Edition.
What would you folks recommend for replacement video cards? I
would probably stick with an SLI configuration unless a single ATI
card comparably priced would blow it away.
thanks!!
