Updating soon, thoughts?

it\'s been that way since forever. that\'s the case with 6800 and 7800 GTX, that\'ll be the case when the next ones come out. does that mean you should never get an sli system today because the ones next year will beat it with just one card?

XFX will sell this 580 / 1730 mhz clocked 512mb 7800GTX in about a month   ;

The cooler is the same dual slot as the QuadroFX4500\'s to keep all that memory cool. The fan is a big low rpm one, so it shouldn\'t be noisy.

no, avatar

it means, it\'s stupid to buy 1/2 a SLi solution now, and say i\'ll just buy a 2nd card a year from now.  

if you\'re going SLi, buy both cards now

Originally posted by EviscerationX
I\'m getting the 4400 model this month with a 7800GT.

The 3800 is easily overclocked to match a 4400 X2, but go ahead.... it\'s your money

speaking of money, it\'s purdy stupid to pay twice as much today for performance you don\'t even need. if next year you find that you need an extra bit of power, plunk down for another card and by that time it\'ll be half the price of what you payed for. you end up with almost 2x performance for 50% more money.

if you absolutley can\'t hack being second fiddle, rip out your old card and replace it with the new model for the same price. you get over 2x performance for 100% more money.

either of these options are better then getting under 2x peformance for 100% more money.

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exactly, mm is a knob. You don\'t need 2 7800GTX cards, hell 1 is plenty. But in 6 months to a year when i may or may not need another card. I\'ll buy it for less and still keep on top. It\'s retarded to buy 2 7800GTX cards right now when u don\'t need that much power. It\'s a huge wank factor for benchmark whores.

Ooo and Souly, nVidia is working on a scheme where you don\'t have to have the exact same card for SLI to work. So you could possibly use your 7800 in tandem with the next one too!

they must not teach reading comprehension in oz

it\'s stupid to buy 1/2 a SLi solution now, and say i\'ll just buy a 2nd card a year from now.

welcome to stupid
lol, buy a 2nd card and still be on top
:lmao:

oh, and hold off till final specs of the 500mb GTX are released

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ehh i understand fully what you\'re talking about. Try learning a little comprehension yourself. It\'s stupid to buy 2 cards now when theres no need. Understand?   i\'ll buy another 7800GTX when i need to.

go troll another thread.

[GmanJoe]

Man, I haven\'t upgraded since I built my AMD 1.4gHz PC about 4 or 5 years ago.

Been out of the hardware loop for a while.

But...well...considering I play console games and use the Mac for editing stuff, I think I\'ll stay with the 1.4 gHz a bit longer.

soully, you\'re missing the point

you\'ll buy a 2nd card for 10% performance and still be 6 months/years behind?

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no, i\'ll be paying a lot less and getting more performance rather then having to pay for the current highend pricey card.

Why pay 2x as much now when i don\'t need it..

[Paul2]

hmmm, honestly somehow i agree with Soulgrind\'s reasoning on this one.

you end up with almost 2x performance for 50% more money.

That is simply not true at this point in time..

Actually mm said it best, (abit extreme  may I add:

You\'ll buy a 2nd card for 10% performance

SLI has yet to prove itself as a doubling performance solution. Sure in certain situations SLi can achieve 70-80%. For the most part SLi economically is a waist of Money, and is really only benificial for the uber geek who wants to run his game at insane resolutions with AF/AA.

IF next gen ATI Crossfire or SLI can offer an 80% perofrmance increase without having the limitation of only being able to acheive this in certain settings, but rather as an overall performer, then and only then would I consider making the leap into purchasing a setup.

I reckon the Advantage to Multi Gpu setups is so that instead of throwing away your previous gen card, you can continue to utilize your invensment by enhancing it\'s performance for half the price of what it would cost for a new State of the Art gen Card.

you\'re not going to pick up another 7800GTX in 6 months/year for 50$

it\'s not even a consideration