No one recommended crossfire kid.
CoolIce, a 4850 is probably your best bet looking at your hardware. Why do you have a CD-ROM listed in your sig but no CPU?? Also, ignore Rave Tech's answers. WRONG!! I am pretty sure he is clueless about hardware.
BTW, I am pretty sure RaveTech thinks it is "cool" to SLI. What he fails to comprehend after being told many times is that the cards don't scale 100% and therefore performance per price is lower than the 4850 or GTX 260 Core 216. There is really no reason to buy a 9600GSO unless you are building a budget rig, and I can't really see any reason to buy a 9800GT at $149. The 8800GT/9800GT was a great card.....I used to own one. But that was a year ago.
It's an email promotion, you have to sign up to be on newegg's mailing list to recieve it. Anyone can do it.
the guy has a 680i board and you are recommended crossfire? are you serious?
lol
hey bro i just built a 680i SLI board.....here is benched results for you to use while you choose:
680i SLI board:
2x9600 GSO's -
crysis all high no AA 1280 x 1024 = 32 FPS
3dmark06 = hdr - 6280, sm2.0 - 6127
2x8800GT's -
crysis all high no AA 1280 x 1024 = 48 FPS
3dmark06 = hdr - 8200, sm2.0 - 8127
the processor i used was a conroe E6700 2.66 ghz, overclocked to 3.52 ghz...
there you have it!
9600 gso = $77.99 brand new from newegg 768 mb ram
8800 gt - discontinued
9800 gt - same as 8800 gt, $149.99 new from newegg 512 mb ddr3
do you know that an SLI board is setup for nVidia? running an ATI on it would be ridiculous...
So I just sign up and get different codes whenever they have an offer?
Hey everyone,
Can anyone recommend a great video between $100-200?I have a 680i SLI ready motherboard.