SLI compatibility

[Madcat2092]

Newbie to the forum here. In my current system I have a XFX 8800GTS 640mb and a friend of mine just bought a XFX 8800GTS 320mb Fatal1ty Edition card and wants to get rid of it for cheap. My question is can I run this in SLI mode with my current card. Thanks

 

[Ham]

In theory yes, but it seams to be a bit hit and miss...

 

[Madcat2092]

Thats not exactly the optimistic news I wanted to hear. The thing is if I want to buy it I have to decide because if he wants to return it for a 768mb xxx edition he needs to do it in the morning. I wont have time to try by then. Anybody else have any thoughts suggestions or whatnot.

 

[Madcat2092]

Do you have any personal experience in trying it HAM? Also what are the problems associated with it.

 

[Ham]

Not personal but its been discussed and tried before here.

 

[FarFarAway]

Well if it's cheap and you have money lying about not doing anything else maybe

SLI does give a performance increase, but not in everything and in some games it's downright buggy

 

[Madcat2092]

Not personal but its been discussed and tried before here.

Thanks for the link.

 

[Madcat2092]

Don't have any money but he only wants 290 for it. Trying to play Crysis and I cant turn it to very high settings and I would really like too. My buddies rig has sli on 2 ultras and it looks and runs sweet. But I cant afford those cards right now.

 

[darkorb]

Madcat i tried it with those 2 cards. EVGA 8800GTS 640mb Superclocked and a XFX 8800GTS 320mb Fatal1ty. didnt work. tried everything

 

[Madcat2092]

Madcat i tried it with those 2 cards. EVGA 8800GTS 640mb Superclocked and a XFX 8800GTS 320mb Fatal1ty. didnt work. tried everything

HMMM. Not sure if I want to try it since I havn't heard or read about any really good news on looking into it. Too bad.

 

[Madcat2092]

I tried calling XFX about it and they said that it will definitely not work. You have to have they same cards and they must have the same memory capacities.

 

[FarFarAway]

Long and the short of it:

Don't buy the extra card:

It's not worth the extra money

It's not gonna improve performance in all games

It will give you issues

In a few months time a card will come out that spanks everything on the market

 

[Madcat2092]

Very true. Not going to buy the card. Thanks for all the responses.