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    SLI Card Help please

    Hello all was windering if you can help

    Basically i am looking at doing 3 way SLI but my problem is i cannot find the card i require on the web

    Basically the cards i have at the mow are

    BFG GTX 260 OCX MAXCORE 896MB PCIe 2.0 (BFGRGTX260MC896OCXE)

    bfgtech.com/bfgrgtx260mc896ocxe.aspx

    Now the only card i can see that looks identical except for it has a 55nm GPU

    BFG GTX 260 OCX MAXCORE 55 896MB PCIe 2.0 (d)

    bfgtech.com/bfgegtx260mc896ocxde.aspx (BFGEGTX260MC896OCXDE)

    (sorry I cannot post the full URL links 5 post rule) BUT. Would the new card even with a slightly different GPU work with the current 2 cards i have or would i need to start again with new cards

    Thanks for the help

    Chris

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    Re: SLI Card Help please

    I played around with SLI on two GTX260's, one was an older one with fewer streams and different manufacturer and it worked fine, just found it didnt give me much of an uplift so I dropped it. So I would imagine the die shrink should make no difference

    If memory serves me Toms had a good report on this and going from 2-3 made a minimal difference compared to going from 1-2 so all u will be doing is payin through the nose for ur leccy

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    Re: SLI Card Help please

    It's your money, but I do have to wonder why you're doing it. As d3fiant says the scaling beyond two GPUs is poor. Additionally, you'll get some driver problems with any SLI solution (even if they're as mild as not having a game profile yet).

    You'd be better going for one fast card, I would have thought.

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    Re: SLI Card Help please

    thanks for the replies

    basically i was doing it to see if i could keep the two cards that i have a little more up to date I.E with new games still being able to play with everything set to max in say 6-9 months down the line.

    I havnt hit any problems with running SLI but since my MOBO supports 3 way SLI i thought i would look in to it and see how much it would cost and what i could gain.

    After reading about it though i think i will just save up for new cards seems to be the more sensible route.

    Thanks for the input

    Chris

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