Upgrade to 8800GTS/GTX or stick with SLi??

[BubbySoup]

You are going to be bottlenecking the 8800 at that res I'm afraid.

[acrobat]

You are going to be bottlenecking the 8800 at that res I'm afraid.

They said they are moving to 1680*1050 soon.

Also, wouldn't lower resolutions just allow you to push a game to higher settings and switch on the full AA/AF etc? In which case, there will be games to make good use of an 8800 at lower resolutions.

There was a review of the 8800GTX on a fast C2D playing Flight Sim X. And it said that the card still struggles if you crank the game to maximum and fly over a city etc.... And games are just going to continue to get more and more demanding (Crysis, Alan Wake, etc..). So surely an 8800 will be made good use of, even at lower resolutions? You just have to crank all the settings of these more demanding games, to make full use of the card.

[htid]

They said they are moving to 1680*1050 soon.

Also, wouldn't lower resolutions just allow you to push a game to higher settings and switch on the full AA/AF etc? In which case, there will be games to make good use of an 8800 at lower resolutions.

There was a review of the 8800GTX on a fast C2D playing Flight Sim X. And it said that the card still struggles if you crank the game to maximum and fly over a city etc.... And games are just going to continue to get more and more demanding (Crysis, Alan Wake, etc..). So surely an 8800 will be made good use of, even at lower resolutions? You just have to crank all the settings of these more demanding games, to make full use of the card.

I thought the same, but I wasn't going to argue since I thought I may be wrong

[Clunk]

Maybe its a limitation of its directx9 power? Maybe directx 10 wont have that problem? Who knows?