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Worth it or not?
IMy comp specs:
C2D E8400 3.0ghz
4gb ramn
2x 8800GT 512mb
Would this card give me a noticable performance increase in gameing or would i be wasting my time? Just curious as I burnt out one of my 8800Gt and would like to replace them and not bother with SLI or crossfire at all.
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You could expect a Radeon HD 6850 to roughly double the performance of a single GeForce 8800 GT.
So not much of a gain over dual 8800GT, as I said thats my setup now but one of my cards took a crap on me today.
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Well, you'd also gain DX10 and DX11 compatibility. As well as lower power use (which means cooler overall case temperatures, and possibly less case noise)
i would put a ssd hard drive first !you ll gain a lot more performance then what you could gain by changing graphic card .remember this graphic card are rarelly running to their max.its often the processor that isnt powerfull enough or the hard drive!
espacially with the config you have!it should still do good!
Thanks for the suggestion, I still haven't made up miy mind as to what I am going to do yet. The odd thing is that even though one of my two 8800GT burnt out my games seem to have not taken any performance hit. I find this odd as I always had SLI enable and would have expected a change in how well my games ran.
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Not all games use SLI/Crossfire. There has to be a profile for the program, otherwise it will just chug along on a single card, even if you have SLI enabled.
And even when they do have a profile, different programs benefit to varying degrees. You almost never see exactly double the frame rate, or double the performance, due to a lot of different factors. Usually, it caps out at about 50%, and for some games it can be a lot less.
SLI/Crossfire is a neat gimmick for those that can afford it, however, I think it's better utilized with something like Hybrid SLI/Crossfire, and extending even farther, it will be nice to see Crossfire work with Fusion CPUs, and (maybe with the new nVidia licensing agreement) see Hybrid SLI work with on-die Sandy Bridge GPU's as well. That way, when your just browsing on the desktop or whatever, your integrated (and extremely low power) graphics card is chugging along. You fire up a video game, and your beefy 3D accelerator picks up, and gets a small boost by the integrated graphics (even if it's just handling video decompression, or adding one level of AA, or processing some additional shader effects).