gts250 sli

[theantman2006]

hey friends im watching a gts 250 on ebay (has about 2 hours left) would you say its worth picking up for some sli pwnge and hold me over for a while, OR put the money towards a 560ti for later on?
many thx

[Zero82z]

Save up for a better single card. The GTS 250 is old enough at this point that I don't think it's worth going for an SLI setup unless you can get it for a really low price. The $50 range would be my limit.

[rafal_iB_PL]

250 SLI at best matches about GTX285 - so about the level of GTX 460. At worst, it's a single GTS 250 of course. No go, unless really cheap.

[John Doe]

^ That's right. Even for that, you need to close AA and keep it under probably 512 MB framebuffer. -had a 9800GX2- G92 chips don't have much raw power, so such setup would base it's power on SLi, causing slowdowns whenever SLi can't scale well due to the weakness of GPU's(ex. Crysis).

While a Ti 560 would do well, I assume that you're also bottlenecked by CPU on S775. Most probably on a problematic 680i mobo that can't OC properly. As such, you may need to replace the whole system for "ownage". ;)

[theantman2006]

^ That's right. Even for that, you need to close AA and keep it under probably 512 MB framebuffer. -had a 9800GX2- G92 chips don't have much raw power, so such setup would base it's power on SLi, causing slowdowns whenever SLi can't scale well due to the weakness of GPU's(ex. Crysis).

While a Ti 560 would do well, I assume that you're also bottlenecked by CPU on S775. Most probably on a problematic 680i mobo that can't OC properly. As such, you may need to replace the whole system for "ownage". ;)

i am making a new build atm it WILL own...2600k :)

[McSteel]

i7 2600K is overkill for gaming, unless you're going for GTX580 tri-sli on triple-monitor setup. i5 2500K is plenty for gaming, and will be for quite some time, I'd wager. Especially when you consider that 80+% of new games are console ports.