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I saw a website somewhere pit dual 6600gts against a single 6600gt and an ultra 6800gt annd the 6600gts only scored more in the higher resolutions with less dropped frames but the overall score was basically the same other than when you increase to really really high resolutions,
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And whats the point of all this if not to play at high-res?
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Every benchmark and test I ever seen shows the 6800 ultra beating the 6600GT SLI
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And what benchmarks are you looking at?
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=2284&p=13
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In most test the 6800 GT also beated it except on a game like doom3 with 1280X1024 AFX8 or higher settings.
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Well if stands to follow if the 6600GT-SLI wins over the 6800U then the 6800GT doesnt stand a chance.
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in some cases the 6600gt single outperformed the 2x 6600gts in sli...
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That does make sense although that is because of the overhead introduced by the bridging connector. Rest assured those performance drops occur at low-res and usually account for a whopping 2fps, compared to potentially a 30fps+ improvement
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I also read that most games especially the not-so-popular ones don't have drivers written for them to utilize sli
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It has been about 15 years since games use their own drivers for the most part.
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what exactly is wrong with the av-8 other than the lack of those features, is there something directly wrong with it that I should know such as failure or anything?
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Ya the simple fact that it uses the K8T800Pro chipset -- the same as the one ive got. If you're looking at the AV8 then I strongly urge you consider the MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum (nforce3Ultra, handsdown dominant AGP board for A64)
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You also didn't answer my question about the Power Supply which I really need to know id appreciate it if you could help me out.
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The wattage doesnt matter as much as the voltage stability (which is why I suggested you look somewhere esle than Raidmax for solid PSUs). For the record and comparison, im using a 420W Vantec Stealth and its more than capable of reliably powering what ive got here + lots more
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My budget is around $1600, if you can tell me where I can find a config with
AMD Athlon 64 3500+
1GB DDR Ram @400Mhz
nForce 4 Motherboard
sound blaster live 6.1
200gb 7200rpm hdd 8mb cache
16x dvd+/-rw dual layer
thermaltake fan
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That shouldnt be too hard to find all around... oh yeah about the soundcard .... your K8T890 comes with plenty-good onboard sound ... and having the addin card doesnt allow you to have two soundcards (and yes there are uses where dual soundcards may be useful ... a very serious peev I have with this board) ... so you can save money there. Also you said something about 7.1 sound ... 7.1 speakers with 6.1 soundcard isnt gonna be pretty.
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At first glance I was going to get the nforce4 but it's more expensive and I heard that it didn't offer that much of a performance upgrade because of the 8x8 pipes?
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The NF4U is the 6800GT of mobos, excellent performance on its own, excelent price and modability to NF4SLI as for pipe-age, like i said earlier, AGP4X is a minor handicap so PCIex8 isnt a handicap at all -- theres tons of room to move (why do you think weve not seen cases were Dual 6800Us are saturating the bandiwdth and getting bottlenecked?)