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Originally Posted by Himmler
with the sli in those benchmarks you dont even see a more than a 50% increase dude, why waste $1000 on two ultra caards when one x800xt or one ultra can EASILY do the job? well in the present time anyway...in a year or so sli might be required for some games
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Depends what he wants it for, sli at the minute is prtty much for high res gaming with everything cranked up, if someone buys an sli setup to run at 1024x768 with standard settings they need a good slap. It has its good and bad points, ive seen enough benchmarks and on occasion the x850xt can outperform 2 sli'd 6800 ultras. Other times the 6800's lay a whoopin in doom 3 benchmarks at 1600x1200 with everything turned up, more or less any opengl game for that matter.
Doom 3 i run at 1280x1024 4xfsaa on the high settings (cause ultra settings = oOo: ). The built in time demo i score 55 or so fps. Thats not really saying much though. Some people look at timedemo scores and base what they buy off that.
Theres plenty of areas in doom 3 that drop my fps quite a lot. The reactor core level for example, i was using a plasma rifle in that area beside the reactor core with the flying heads everywhere and i was getting around 20fps. Theres one segment in the doom 3 expansion with zombies walking through an xray machine, where i dropped to around 20fps again, some weird glass distortion effect seemed to cause it.
Sli at the minute is definately usefull, expensive way to go but if you want max settings in games like doom 3 or chronicles of riddick its either get sli or wait for the next gen of cards. |
