I'd say stick with the 8800's until the 9 series passes us up, or until they release a better 9 series card which proves to be a useful upgrade.
I wonder about that motherboard though, pricey anyways.
Probably means I can get an older model for dirt cheap.
Well, here's the one on newegg:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130338
GeForce 9800 GX2 1GB GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready
GPU - GeForce 9800 GX2
Core clock - 600MHz
Stream Processors - 256 (128 per GPU)
Memory Clock - 2000MHz (effective)
Memory Size - 1GB (512MB per GPU)
Memory Interface - 512-bit (256-bit per GPU)
To name a few things.
That is double the stream processors, this thing is basically two video cards slapped together, I think in SLI It might have benefits in general.. but not really in the games that we play today.
Cant wait to see how these work in Crysis, hate that game, but I know that there was still struggles with the 8800's.
I won't buy one ATM for a few reasons.
*The drivers most likely suck.
*The price will drop in a while.
*They will release better versions of the card later
*No games benefit from these cards really, at the moment. All it does is take what we have now and over kill it, which is pointless.
Also:
http://techreport.com/articles.x/14355/1 The more I read on in this article, the more and more I see this cards benefits actually.
Kind of a funny thought, but if this card could ensure that I would get 60 freaking FPS in Guild Wars while in Kamadan, then It's worth the money to me. Always been a war between me and that game to find a card good enough to out-last all the congestion, but that's me.
