Looking to SLI my 8800GTX

[Anth83]

ok so i have a leadtek (winfast) 8800GTX. I was looking at getting another one so i could SLI.

My question is do i have to get EXCACTLY the same brand 8800gtx? Can i get say a gigabyte and run it with the leadtek or do they have to be the same brand?

Cheers

[Alaron]

Brands are interchangeable. As long as the second card is still an 8800GTX model, it will SLI.

[Anth83]

Brands are interchangeable. As long as the second card is still an 8800GTX model, it will SLI.

Ahh ok. So either of these 2 would be fine?? -

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/Sparkle-NVIDIA-GeForce-8800GTX-8800-GTX-768MB-VideoCard_W0QQitemZ170262418628QQihZ007QQcategoryZ162354QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/GEFORCE-8800-GTX-INNO3D-VIDEO-CARD_W0QQitemZ110289971846QQihZ001QQcategoryZ40156QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[Khalil]

Problem here would be these brands are unknown, to me anyways and I sell hundreds of video cards out of my shops each year. Sparkle? Who makes that? Where does it come from?
Stick to Asus, Evga or BFG if you can unless these brands are not available down under! :)

[Anth83]

Problem here would be these brands are unknown, to me anyways and I sell hundreds of video cards out of my shops each year. Sparkle? Who makes that? Where does it come from?
Stick to Asus, Evga or BFG if you can unless these brands are not available down under! :)

Yeah unfortunetly some of those good brands are not available here.

So i prolly should go for something like this then?? -

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/NVIDIA-GEFORCE-8800-GTX-8800GTX-768MB-384BIT-VIDEO-CARD_W0QQitemZ130256954947QQihZ003QQcategoryZ162354QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[Anth83]

Just another quick question, What is the minuimum PSU Watts i will need to run 2 of these cards? Mine is currently a corsair 620W. Will that be enough?

[Alaron]

You'll need to upgrade that as well. Check Nvidia's list: http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone_build_psu.html

[Jester]

Does your mother board have an nVidia chip? If not you will not be able to to SLI at all. With the upgrade to the PSU and the new card it would be much more economical to get a better faster card. Two 8800GTX are not going to be faster than 1 GTX280 or a 9800GTX.

[Anth83]

Does your mother board have an nVidia chip? If not you will not be able to to SLI at all. With the upgrade to the PSU and the new card it would be much more economical to get a better faster card. Two 8800GTX are not going to be faster than 1 GTX280 or a 9800GTX.

Excactly what i was thinking. I should get a decent price for my 8800gtx on ebay.
I was thinking the gtx260 instead of the 280.

Do you know if there is much difference with the 260 and 280 also the performance compared to my current 8800gtx?

[Jester]

I would look at the benchmark scores of each card individually. Is there some game or rendering program that your 8800gtx is not running? i mean I have the gts (which is a step down from your card) and can run Crysis full blast. I would suggest sticking with the card you have and maybe using the money for more RAM, a faster processor, a bigger hard drive, or somthing of that nature. Video cards are too darn expensive to just go drop 500 bucks on a card every 3 months.

[Anth83]

I would look at the benchmark scores of each card individually. Is there some game or rendering program that your 8800gtx is not running? i mean I have the gts (which is a step down from your card) and can run Crysis full blast. I would suggest sticking with the card you have and maybe using the money for more RAM, a faster processor, a bigger hard drive, or somthing of that nature. Video cards are too darn expensive to just go drop 500 bucks on a card every 3 months.

I just brought new ram recently. I am thinking of keeping the 8800gtx.
The only game it cant run on full is crysis. Everything on high (not very high) runs around 35 fps.
Is that right??