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iTz SWAT

Hi, I currently have a Gigabyte GTX260, but I have a friend (he's rich) who's giving me a XFX 9800GX2 Black Edition free.
Which is better? And why?
I play a lot of games on the weekend such as CS:S, Crysis/Warhead, Fallout3, Left 4 Dead, Arma2.
Looking forward to games such as L4D2, NFS Shift, Assassins Creed 2, Crysis 2, APB etc.
I will be playing a lot more hardcore games soon in the holidays.
My current monitor is a 22" running at 1680*1080, but sooner or later I may upgrade to 24" 1920*1080 resolution.

hcavolsdsadgadsg · Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 4:44 am Post subject:

yes, the GX2 is likely to be faster in anything that has an SLI profile.

be weary of micro-stuttering however...

iTz SWAT · Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 4:47 am Post subject:

Micro Stuttering? Also would there be a major heat increase?
Currently my GTX260 runs at these temps stock...

Saifallofjmr · Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 4:49 am Post subject:

To be honest from all the articles I have read about SLI/Crossfire scaling to reviews about the graphic card sli-ing with nvidia xxxxx or ati xxxxx there is generally a problem and less performance than to a single card solution.

superweapons · Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 2:51 pm Post subject:

ArmA 2 hates SLi (or CrossFire). I personally still think that a single-GPU is superior overall.

If I were you, I'd stuff that 9800GX2 into another system and use it for other purposes.

kls85 · Posted: Mon Sep 07, 2009 7:31 pm Post subject:

The 9800GX2 is based on the old architecture (G92) where as your GTX 260 is based on the new GT200.

The GT200 dual-GPU based card will be the GTX295, which contains 2x GTX 260s.
Asus has one which has 2x GTX285 dubbed MARS.

iTz SWAT · Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2009 1:04 am Post subject: