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    8800m gtx SLI = no good (yet!) ??

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Carbonseed, Mar 3, 2008.

  1. Carbonseed

    Carbonseed Notebook Enthusiast

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    anyone knows if there are any laptop which has the SLI 8800m GTX option that actually works like it SHOULD ?

    Under vista (my concern) or even Xp ?
     
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    It is not that it doesnt work as it should, it is just that games are most oft the time NOT optimized to run under sli or can only use a share of the performance boost that is available
     
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    uhm.. so does it means it is still better than ONE card or does it makes it worst ?
     
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    Well, it defenately doesn't make it worse. You are getting raughly 15-20% performance in the games. But as it has been said before games are not optimized well for it. And drivers are not perfect yet. Laptop in my sig has SLI 8800GTX.
     
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    Break it down for us, whats your idea of "working like it should". If you mean does it double your frames per second answer is maybe...if it gives you better performance than a single card answer would be, depends on the game. If the game supports sli then you shouldn't expect more than 50% performance increase.
     
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    As mentioned above, the SLI function is dependent on the games, rather than the laptop or the OS. Since you emphasized the word 'should', then the answer is ALMOST no. Look for a review that Chaz made on a Toshiba with SLI'ed 8700m-GT, only Quake Wars (if not the point is that only one game) out of many games he reviewed really worked like it should: doubling the performance. The rest of the games gave a boost between -4% to 40% (yes, one gave a lower perfomance).
     
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    If I remembered right it's most games atm that don't yet support SLI. :(
     
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    would anyone give me advice as to what to choose between :
    an upgradable notebook with SLI dual 8800m gtx NOW ((for big bucks!) i got the money tho')

    OR same upgradable system with a single 8700 now, and maybe l8r this year go for SLI 9800 for big bucks !
    considering the SLI right now isnt really used in many games and that its not much of a performance gain
     
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    No guarantee any system can be upgraded to sli 9800. Really need to take a few min and read the gpu guide.
     
    Rorschach, Mar 3, 2008
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