or u could just sell off ur 640mb and just top up a little bit to buy 2x320mb for SLI...like this even cheaper

Bigger buffer size is better for widescreen instead of getting 320MB....

Anyway, I think that u shud get an SLi motherboard and just get extra 1 640MB GTS card.... Better than replacing ur 640MB GTS and buy 2 8800GTs....

AArrrrggghh.... Stop the poison. I'm dying....

wahh..sudah jadik thread SLi motherboard

But we're still talking bout GCs.... 8800GT oh yeah!! 3 more days then I can taste the performance....

the pcie x1 bus speed will be increased?

i tot it will be ETA 10 days for EVGA SSC edition that you ordered from Luteva.
sitting in the same boat with you

whooaaaa.very nice one

I dunno la... He told me that it will come on Fri... Maybe u can ask him when is urs coming??

eh not advisable

remember than on sli rig even though the mem is mapped for 640mb for both 320mb ... but u can only use 320mb

to sli 320 mb is just pure power with little mem...
It will suffer badly on FPS games which require a lot of mem to load...

thats y if the 8800gt 1gb version or 8800gts 1gb version comes out.. we are talking about OWNAGE..

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Added on November 6, 2007, 9:44 pmyeah bro but soundcards actually dont need to be runned at PCI-EX

and also say like the PCIE 2.0 sig i wonder how its gonna work on it.. definately buggy.

the problem with the 680 mobo last time was first was the nvidia Linkboost was causing massive problems with it
then came the GPU-EX
turbo stuff etc



This post has been edited by cstkl1: Nov 6 2007, 09:44 PM

the PCIe X-Fi has been out quite awhile ler (not in this country though)...but no ones buying it coz its the extreme audio which is an absolute con case. its just a rebadged low end Audigy2 chip (either the Value or the LS chip...cant remember) ...EAX processing is software based or sumthin like that...forgot.

either way...xtreme audio is the one to avoid for x-fi at all costs...better to get the Audigy 4. so the introduction of the PCIe X-Fi is absolutely negligible....for now....

hopefully they produce a PCIe version of the Xtreme Music (which is compatible with my mobo's PCIe x1 slot)...now that would be something id buy for muh gaming rig

This post has been edited by mADmAN: Nov 6 2007, 10:01 PM

im not an audiphile, but i agree with madman.
audigy 2 and above (except for Xtreme auido) are good, as they are using EMU10k2 sound processors which supports up to EAX 4.0

if you wanna be a hardcore, go for X-fi models (again, minus the Xtreme audio) to enjoy EAX 5.0. But hor... i think there's no games out there optimized for EAX 5.0 yet. i might be wrong thou....

There are games with EAX 5.0 support. Can't remember which one as I'm not at home.

Aiya... Use built-in also ok mah... Mobo nowadays normally hav 7.1 built-in... If not, Audigy 2 and above ok already lor.... Most important thing is that ur comp dun lag when playing games... That's my opinion...

please try an x-fi with same speaker you use with the built-in...

even if you not an audiophile, you will notice the difference...

and can assure you never want to go back to built-in sound....

I have Audigy 2 but my GCs took all the space for PCI so I can't use... I used SB all the while..... What I'm trying to quote is built-in sound nowadays are better than last time.... I'm not so into audio... At least decent performance will be enuf...

Of coz sound cards are better than built-in... But for those ppl that doesn't much care about audio, decent performance will be ok....

How about u try having 2 GTX's or Ultras (or just 2 GCs that have 2 slot cooling) stuck in ur mobo and those GCs just block every PCI slot u have, then u will understand that feeling.... Then u will have to resort to built-in whether u like it or not.....

the reason some say sound cards are better than in-built are becoz they have dedicated sound processor. this will take some load off from the cpu for sound processing. another reason is in-built cards will have alot of inteference within the mobo itself. the only advantage is newer inbuilt sound cards supports 5.1 (some even 7.1) speaker system where as older sound cards may only supports up to 5.1

check my siggie, i've got 8800GTS in sli mode and a SB Live! (very old sound card) and i dont have any problem with it cramping in the middle of 2 heat-emitting creatures or what so ever.

err... i think we are sailing too far off from this thread. lets stick back to the discussion before moderators/TS start making noise.

cheers.

This post has been edited by VT-Ten: Nov 7 2007, 03:46 PM

why dont u use external sound card? such as philips aurilium or audigy nx?

This post has been edited by khaidani: Nov 7 2007, 08:32 PM

anybody OC the 8600GTS on stock cooler?? how high can it go?? i can only reach 700/1100MHz.. at 700/1150 artifact and hang..

still on topic wat....sort of la.coz thers still talk of GCs lol.

aaaaaaaaannyway..its possible for u (and me) to have a soundcard in between our GC's because our mobos have 1 PCI slot thats right above the bottom PCIe slot. most other mobos dont have this...and when going SLI, ur other expansion slots are practically useless coz its blocked by the GC. this has been an issue with SLI mobos for quite sometime.