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Old Dec 13, 2006, 09:47 PM   #1
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Can anybody here give me an idea......

of what to expect with 2 8800GTX's in SLi?As far as 3DMARK06 goes.
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120fps solid across the board max settings?

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Old Dec 14, 2006, 01:01 AM Threadstarter Thread Starter   #4
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No way!With everything maxed out on the 7950's I'm getting 13500 or so.The 8800 couldnt make that much of a difference??????
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No way!With everything maxed out on the 7950's I'm getting 13500 or so.The 8800 couldnt make that much of a difference??????
A single 8800 will get like 16k If I remember reading right, its substantially more powerful than the 7950.
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From what I have seen, your single core FX-55 would be bottlenecked even OCed to the max.
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with 2 8800 gtxs in sli u'll get around 20k easily.Overclock ur cards a bit and ur proccesor a lot u'll get 22k and more easy.
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if you're on an intel core2duo overclocked.... expect the best performance!! but don't run sli on any AMD system.
I have been running SLi on an AMD CPU sence Moses was a corporal....with no problems til now.
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No way!With everything maxed out on the 7950's I'm getting 13500 or so.The 8800 couldnt make that much of a difference??????
Could, does, is

Read some reviews, 90% of them have benchmarks to go with it
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