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    Sli 512 video or 1 gig video

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by icon007, Oct 20, 2008.

  1. icon007

    icon007 Notebook Evangelist

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    SLI . . . .
     
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    ArmageddonAsh Mangekyo Sharingan

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    i would go for the Sager, i would think that the 9800m GTX is better then dual 9800m GTS
     
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    The single 9800M GTX is probably really close to the SLI 9800M GTS cards, and you won't have any problems with SLI scaling/stuttering issues with the single 9800M GTX. 1 really powerful card is better in this case.

    -J.B.
     
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    then why the hype about having a sli system if there is a stuttering problem or imbalance with 2 cards
     
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    Because there is money to be made.

    That's the answer to many questions in life ^_^
     
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    the machine i like to get is the toshiba x305-706, has dual video card but only running 2.26 ghz speed. somepeople on here think that might be alright for games like cod4/ bio shock or crysis, but wouldn't a 2.53 or higher be better?
     
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    CPU doesn't bottleneck games nearly as much as GPU. Sure a higher clocked CPU would be better, but 2.26GHz should be more than fine for games, even the bigger guns since rare are the games which stress CPUs that much(rarer are the games which take advantage of multi-core technology).
     
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    but 2.26GHz should be more than fine for games. you don't sound to sure of it.
     
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    as i understand it, a cpu shunt th data off of the disk or hd to the video card, so the greater the speed, the better the data is resent thru the gpu for better gaming. not sure if this wright but it was what was told to me.
     
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