Replace my 7800gtx sli setup with a single 9800gt?

[recklessftw]

Hey,

what do you guys think? Will I gain a lot of performance going to a single 9800 gt? I have a 24" monitor and I cod5 seems to tax my sli setup... I was thinking of a 9800gt but I'm not sure if it benefit me at all....

I have an amd x2 2.3 ghz, 2x 2gb sticks of ram with this system running xp and vista, soon to replace vista with 7.

Thanks

[CMetaphor]

Hi reckless, your bottleneck might not neccessarily be your graphics setup. I've noticed that you said your processor is an AMD X2 @ 2.3Ghz. Thats a little on the slow side for today's games. It's possible that your sli setup is "starved" for bandwidth from the 2.3Ghz processor.

[recklessftw]

Originally Posted by CMetaphor

Hi reckless, your bottleneck might not neccessarily be your graphics setup. I've noticed that you said your processor is an AMD X2 @ 2.3Ghz. Thats a little on the slow side for today's games. It's possible that your sli setup is "starved" for bandwidth from the 2.3Ghz processor.

I didn't think of that... I guess I could see what the task manager says for my CPU consumption when I play. If I'm at 100% the whole time then maybe that's a good indicator.

[CMetaphor]

Originally Posted by recklessftw

I didn't think of that... I guess I could see what the task manager says for my CPU consumption when I play. If I'm at 100% the whole time then maybe that's a good indicator.

Sounds like a plan to me .

[jcmaz]

The 9800GT is old tech, either buy the GTX260 or w8 till the next gen cards come out in Q4

[sa seba]

If you give us your full specs and tell us your budget, we will be able to help you better ;-)