WANTED: For Stoop (Nvidia 7900GT/OC)

rob[GL] · Post by **rob[GL]** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 10:38 am

We're at work right now, he wants to run SLI, anyone have one for cheap, or know of one for sale?

SCETR · Post by **SCETR** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 11:08 am

I have a 7900GT but I can't afford a new one, so I be keeping it.

Spyhop · Post by **Spyhop** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 2:59 pm

Tell Stoop to sell his 7900GT, add it to the money he was going to spend on another 7900GT, and get an 8800GT.

SLI is such a minimal performance gain and it's buggy.

rob[GL] · Post by **rob[GL]** » Thu Nov 29, 2007 4:45 pm

Dolphin wrote:Tell Stoop to sell his 7900GT, add it to the money he was going to spend on another 7900GT, and get an 8800GT.

SLI is such a minimal performance gain and it's buggy.

I already told him that.

Too bad that he could probably find another 7900GT for about $100, whereas a 8800GT is $300.

SCETR · Post by **SCETR** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:00 am

Yah, i can see your point but I ran SLI for like 2 years and you can't run two monitors. You have 4 fukn monitor plugs and you can only use 1. It really sucks, I love 2 monitors now. Also they don't do shit for directx games, opengl games seem to benefit the most (this is where I think ATI's solution is a bit better with directx, which is what most games use nowadays).

JohnyRico · Post by **JohnyRico** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:06 pm

besides that. the 8800 is still the better card for the minor increase in price.

Better than two 7900

Spyhop · Post by **Spyhop** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 12:48 pm

I generally consider SLI and XFire to be an epic failure.

AlphaDrake · Post by **AlphaDrake** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 2:02 pm

Dolphin wrote:I generally consider SLI and XFire to be an epic failure.

I rather like xfire...

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the chat program.

Spyhop · Post by **Spyhop** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 2:43 pm

r337ard · Post by **r337ard** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 2:47 pm

The only good thing I've seen lately to do with Xfire is it's multi display support. Pretty well the same idea as the Parhelia.

Outside of that niche tho xfire has only been marginally more disappointing than SLI.

rob[GL] · Post by **rob[GL]** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 5:28 pm

Dave didn't ask for your opinions, none of these posts have made him any closer to locating another 7900GT, so STFU.

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His response, not mine, believe it or not.

JohnyRico · Post by **JohnyRico** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 5:35 pm

Tell Dave, he can quit being a candy ass, and log on and say STFU himself... otherwise who gives a fuck about what some guys says off forums.

Spyhop · Post by **Spyhop** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 6:30 pm

lol, shit, JR beat me to the punch.

crazy1 · Post by **crazy1** » Fri Nov 30, 2007 10:45 pm

i see a 7900 gs at oem $169

eVGA N624 7900GS KO 256MB DDR3 PCIe

http://www.oemdepot.com/Itemdesc.asp?ic=VIDEVG%2DN624

i don't know sli too well but i know with xfire two of the same series work

rob[GL] · Post by **rob[GL]** » Sat Dec 01, 2007 2:28 am

crazy1 wrote:i see a 7900 gs at oem $169

eVGA N624 7900GS KO 256MB DDR3 PCIe

http://www.oemdepot.com/Itemdesc.asp?ic=VIDEVG%2DN624

i don't know sli too well but i know with xfire two of the same series work

Yeah... Except for $170 he'd be better off picking up a Radeon HD3850 (or a used 8800GTS 320MB) which would be approximately 2x-3x faster than his 7900GT. He's trying to minimize costs here, like $100 or less.