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    9800gx2

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by tropic thunder, Aug 30, 2008.

  1. tropic thunder

    tropic thunder Notebook Enthusiast

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    is it just me or is this card godly? Ive seen all the benchmarks and its beat out the 280gtx. why is this? its only like 300 dollars to is this better then a 4870? You can quad sli these right?
     
    tropic thunder, Aug 30, 2008
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    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    The 9800GX2 is good, and better than the GTX280 in most cases. Per card, its cheaper than the 4870X2, but the 4870X2 is faster and more power efficient.

    I know you can quad crossfire the 4870X2, but that is beyond insane.
    I am not sure if their are any boards which can do Quad SLI at the moment. I think the max is tri SLI on an EVGA/XFX 790i board.
    I have an old gigabyte board which I had a quad SLI 7950GX2 array in, and they scaled really bad, I mean like a 3% increase in speed per additional card. It looked amazing in the case, but I ended up running them individually (non-sli)
    SLI still has scaling problems, and it does not perform as well as crossfire does on dual gpu configurations.

    Keep in mind you need a nvidia chipset board to run SLI, which are more expensive than the X38/X48/P35/P45 boards which run Crossfire.

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Aug 30, 2008
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    NAS Ghost Notebook Deity

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    Well, the 9800Gx2 is two cards slapped into one...
     
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    tropic thunder Notebook Enthusiast

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    so u cant sli to of yes beasts ? :(
     
    tropic thunder, Aug 30, 2008
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    K-TRON Hi, I'm Jimmy Diesel ^_^

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    yes, you can sli two 9800GX2's, but you cannot sli 4 of them (8 gpu's). At least I dont think any board yet can support it.

    K-TRON
     
    K-TRON, Aug 30, 2008
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