What should I do with this SLI board?

SkyBum · Dec 10, 2004, 09:00 AM

I just got a schweet discount on an Asus a8n Deluxe SLI board (thats the only reason why I bought an SLI board...) only to find out that the X800s perform very poorly on that platform. Now I am thinking I should either sell the motherboard or sell my aX800XT and pick up a couple of 6800gt's. Damn tough choice there cause I REALLY like ATI. Specs below what would you do?

Review here: http://www.hothardware.com/viewartic...leid=612&cid=2

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Early on in our testing, it became very obvious to us that our ATi Radeon cards were at a considerable disadvantage running in the nForce4-driven ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe board. This isn't so much a knock on ASUS as it is just indicative of the fact that NVIDIA highly tunes its chipset obviously for optimal performance with their graphics cards.
The ATi/nForce4 combination disadvantage was so pronounced over what we had seen in testing with ATi cards on other platforms that we felt it wouldn't even be close to a fair comparison of graphics subsystem performance.

BWX · Dec 10, 2004, 09:08 AM

I would sell it and buy some beer

drakesteakn · Dec 10, 2004, 04:05 PM

why dont u try ur card in the mobo first, then get ur own conclusion wether its bad performance.

Chaos · Dec 10, 2004, 06:35 PM

yes i would at least test the X800XT in it, I hear newer revisions of that board are fine

SkyBum · Dec 14, 2004, 11:06 AM

It's all set up. I'm really glad I stuck with ATI. Have not had time to do much more than install windows but I'll post some pics and specs later....

Dec 10, 2004, 09:08 AM	#2
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drakesteakn boo!!!! Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: Ft. Meyers, FL Posts: 2,041 Rep Power: 0	why dont u try ur card in the mobo first, then get ur own conclusion wether its bad performance. __________________

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Chaos Number Nine Join Date: May 2002 Location: Nova Scotia Posts: 5,268 Rep Power: 167 System Specs	yes i would at least test the X800XT in it, I hear newer revisions of that board are fine __________________

Dec 14, 2004, 11:06 AM	Thread Starter #5
SkyBum HardwareHeaven Lover Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Look up! Posts: 234 Rep Power: 0	It's all set up. I'm really glad I stuck with ATI. Have not had time to do much more than install windows but I'll post some pics and specs later.... __________________