Dual SLI Nvidia GeForce GTS 240

[QUOTE="MonsieurX"]Dual 4830 would be about the sameravenguard90

Err...no. 4830 matches the 9800 GT. A GTS 250 is a rebranded 9800 GTX, which has the 4850 as its competition. Hence, dual 4850's would be the same.

Yeah... I thought there wasn't such thing as a gts 240, so I assumed he was talking about the gts 250. I stand corrected :P

Can you link us to were you were going to purchase these card(s)?

no u should SLI 2 GTX 260 Core Editions

One last question I promise, would a Dual SLI GTS 240 beat a single GTS 250 in performance? Thank you very much to all who posted to help me.needhelppleasex

Single card solutions are always more desirable over multi-gpu setups.

I was also curious that with SLI, if the GTS 240 has 1GB, if I use SLI does the memory stack to 2GB because I have heard yes and no to this answer so I have no clue on what the true answer is.needhelppleasex

The answer to this question is NO. When you have 2 cards in SLI (or Crossfire), the effective memory is only that of 1 of the cards. The way SLI works is that each card has the same identical data in it's memory at the same time. There is a physical link (SLI bridge) that attaches the 2 cards together, so they can efficiently communicate with each other and keep track of which GPU/set of memory is doing to work for each frame (or each half of the screen, etc... there are several different methods used in SLI to divide the workload between the cards).

The bottom line is that with SLI, you get the benefits of 2 GPUs, but only the memory from 1 of them. My advice is that the only logical time to use a multiple video card setup is when it costs less and gives you equal or better performance than 1 higher-end GPU.

If 2 x GTS 240 cards are AS or More powerful, AND less expensive than 1 GTX 285 (for example), then SLI-ing the lower-end cards makes sense. But if the higher-end card is less expensive than the 2 lower-end cards combined, and performs at least as well, it makes sense to get the 1 higher-end card. That way you save the possibility to get another one of the higher-end cards for SLI later on (or Crossfire with ATI cards).