dual 8600 gts or 8800 gt

imonestupidazn · 12-30-2007, 06:57 AM

I'm having trouble figuring out which graphics cards to pick from. I'm going to be buying a custom made computer from cyberpower pc and so far the configurations look like this

CPU: Intel Dual ® Core™ 2 Duo E6750 CPU @ 2.66GHz 1333FSB 4MB L2 Cache 64-bit
Power Supply: 800 Watts Power Supplies
Mother Board: MSI P6N SLI-FI nForce 650i SLI Chipset LGA775 FSB1333 DDR2 Mainboard
Ram: 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory

My question is it better to have dual NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB 16X PCI Express (XFX XXX Edition Powered by NVIDIA) or a single NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB 16X PCI Express? Or perhaps dual NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 512MB 16X PCI Express? And depending on which graphic card set i get do i need to pick a different mother board? The one i have supports sli and has two pci express x16 slots. Should i go with asus motherboard?

Thanks a lot!

abramuz · 12-30-2007, 10:43 AM

single 8800GTS will be faster then dual 8600GT.

[-0MEGA-] · 12-30-2007, 01:16 PM

Either an 8800GT or the 512MB 8800GTS would be better then dual 8600GTS'.

oscaryu1 · 12-30-2007, 03:19 PM

8800GT will be greatly faster.

12-30-2007, 06:57 AM	#1 (permalink)
imonestupidazn New Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 1	dual 8600 gts or 8800 gt I'm having trouble figuring out which graphics cards to pick from. I'm going to be buying a custom made computer from cyberpower pc and so far the configurations look like this CPU: Intel Dual ® Core™ 2 Duo E6750 CPU @ 2.66GHz 1333FSB 4MB L2 Cache 64-bit Power Supply: 800 Watts Power Supplies Mother Board: MSI P6N SLI-FI nForce 650i SLI Chipset LGA775 FSB1333 DDR2 Mainboard Ram: 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory My question is it better to have dual NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS 256MB 16X PCI Express (XFX XXX Edition Powered by NVIDIA) or a single NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB 16X PCI Express? Or perhaps dual NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT 512MB 16X PCI Express? And depending on which graphic card set i get do i need to pick a different mother board? The one i have supports sli and has two pci express x16 slots. Should i go with asus motherboard? Thanks a lot!

12-30-2007, 01:16 PM	#3 (permalink)
[-0MEGA-] Diamond Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Concord, NH Age: 19 Posts: 27,069	Either an 8800GT or the 512MB 8800GTS would be better then dual 8600GTS'. __________________ Desktop // Laptop Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 4.0GHz // Core 2 Duo P8400 2.26GHz Asus Rampage Formula X48 // Intel PM45 ATI 4870X2 2GB GDDR5 // 512MB GDDR3 9800M GTS 4GB (2x 2GB) DDR2 940 // 4GB DDR3 800 750GB SATAII w/32MB // 200GB SATAII 7200RPM Creative SB X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty SilverStone 750W +12V@60A 3DMark06: 21391 // 9179

12-30-2007, 03:19 PM	#4 (permalink)
oscaryu1 VIP Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Houston, Texas Age: 13 Posts: 10,043	8800GT will be greatly faster. __________________ Core 2 Duo E2140 1.6GHz @ 3.04GHz GA-P31-DS3L pqi Turbo CL4 DDR2-800 2GB Sapphire HD3850 256MB Sony Writemaster DVD Burner EIDE Seagate Barracuda 80GB 7200.9 8MB SATII

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12-30-2007, 10:43 AM	#2 (permalink)
abramuz New Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 11	single 8800GTS will be faster then dual 8600GT.