so basically if i only run on 17" or 19" widescreen sli can be said close to useless? i'm having a sli board now, but never make use of sli so far..

i don't think 8800GT can run tri-sli. coz they only have one sli connector, but some versions of 9800GT can. only those with 2 sli connectors on the gc can run tri-sli.

only certain version of 9800GT have. i forgot from which manufacturer already. but generally 9800GT doesnt support tri-sli.

wanna ask, can 2 same cards with different memory size be sli-ed? eg 8800GT 256MB sli with the 512MB model?

yeah, couldnt agree more with madman. good cable management also give better aiflow inside your casing, and looks more neat also

the cheapest and latest sli chipset mobo in market is 750i, priced around rm400-450. older chipsets would be cheaper, but hard to find now already.

If i use 8800GT as main card and 8500GT as my physx or secondary card, do i need to plug in the SLI bridge?

if sunyi sepi then we shall make it alive again..
yeah agree on what mavrix said about upgrading, that's what i do too whenever i wanna upgrade my pc. see which part needs an upgrade, , do some budget planning, and research for the best model that suits the budget. then when the time comes, go for it

if terburu-buru sometimes might run out of budget or overspend, then you might end up with a financial crisis.

mavrix, it's normal la when once we get something already then we want something better, i bet lots of people face this too

wanna ask, i've enabled sli with my 2 8800GT. both are different brands, one msi, another is xfx. the clock speed for msi is 6600mhz, and the xfx one 640mhz.

when i run 3dmark06, there's like red flickers or some distortion in the graphics. when the xfx is master, there's distortion, and when the msi one is master, there's red flickers. even when i run some games also it's the same.

and 3dmark06 shows a result almost similar to a single card only. can anyone help?

i see. it wouldn't be advisable to overclock or downclock either cards to match each other right?

eg like i downclock the msi to 640mhz to match the xfx one..

tried to sli again just now, still didn't work. although i already set both cards to stock speeds, but still get the same results. no succes in getting them to work smoothly.

could the culprit be that the cards are a different spec alltogether?
coz when i check on gpu-z, both have different pixel and texture fillrate. if not mistaken there's a slight difference in the bandwith too..

me too..what RegentCid mentioned earlier was definately right, gtx295 is dual gpu, so only can sli 2 cards. and gtx295 only has 1 goldfinger. how to tri-sli?

i demand pics as prove to her statement

@Odinn,
you can try going for 790i, 780i or 750i chipset motherboards
if you wanna go for 3-way sli as mentioned, then go for 780/790 series chipset.

This post has been edited by dlwl: May 26 2009, 01:51 AM

well if you really can't hold onto your budget, then option 2 is more realistic, as you have mentioned.

as for option 1, depends how long you save up, who knows prices might come down due to new stuff coming up. so you might be able to save a bit from there