GTX 260 SLI performance

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#1 00jcooper
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How much of a performance increase can i see if i add another gtx 260 to my rig?

Igame at 1680x1050 and my cpu is currently at 2.66.

Thanks

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#2 BlackShirt20
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[QUOTE="00jcooper"]

How much of a performance increase can i see if i add another gtx 260 to my rig?

Igame at 1680x1050 and my cpu is currently at 2.66.

Thanks

Not a tech wiz. but it should be pretty big. wont be mind blowing, but will be greatly noticed.
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#3 osiris667
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assuming there's no bottleneck, it would perform just short if not the same as a gtx 295

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#4 nofriekinlemons
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on their site it said 2x the performance in sli and 2.8x the performance in tri-sli

so what ever frame rates you get now double it and thats what you should expect

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#5 00jcooper
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wow nice, does it have to be the EXACT same model card? As in same manufacturer etc?
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#6 Lach0121
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wow nice, does it have to be the EXACT same model card? As in same manufacturer etc?00jcooper

does not have to be same manufacturer i believe, but same model card otherwise...

i could be wrong, but im running on two (OCX versions of) BFG 8800gt in SLI.

and realistically you will receive a 35-60% performance increase in games... not double.. sorry..

i dont even think fermi SLI will give you double, even with its superb scalability. (though it comes close, around 50-85% increase with 2 instead of 1 fermi, from what i read)

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#7 nofriekinlemons
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[QUOTE="00jcooper"]wow nice, does it have to be the EXACT same model card? As in same manufacturer etc?Lach0121

does not have to be same manufacturer i believe, but same model card otherwise...

i could be wrong, but im running on two (OCX versions of) BFG 8800gt in SLI.

and realistically you will receive a 35-60% performance increase in games... not double.. sorry..

i dont even think fermi SLI will give you double, even with its superb scalability. (though it comes close, around 50-85% increase with 2 instead of 1 fermi, from what i read)

ya......more or less its near double

note that this is not a 260 in sli but this is what you can expect, but then again maybe the gts250 is just really good

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#8 FUBAR24
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for SLI it has to be the same card, same manufacture, same chipset, same video memory
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#9 04dcarraher
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for SLI it has to be the same card, same manufacture, same chipset, same video memoryFUBAR24
No it does not, You can have any brand, any clockrate, and or memory. But it does need to be the same chipset. In SLI, if you have different speeds/memory amount the higher ended card will lower itself to match the other card.
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#10 Lach0121
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well, if it is then it is, but i realize what the benches say, and im saying that actual game perfomance may very, but sli usually does not add double the performance on most games out, (it will however increase the performance significantly, just not double, sorry

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#11 SamiRDuran
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yeah go for it you'll get a nice boost in performance but try to overclock your cpu at 3ghz+