With some new awesome games coming out I'm thinking of upgrading the video card. I have a 7600GT and to buy another and SLI them will be around $115-120 or should I get something like a single 8600GT for around $130.

Opinions, comments and slander all welcome.

Your 7600GT performs about the same as the 8600GT. 8600gt has Dx10 support and is a little slower to boot.

Get another 7600 and SLI them for much better performance.

depending on the res you are going to be running the games at, I currently have sli 7900gtx's and i'd rather have a single 8800gtx cause it's faster.

I'd never go sli again

Ticman I have SLI'ed 7600GT's (2 x 256mb versions) and have no problem with games running between 1280/720 and 1440/900. I play ETQW, all the HL2 engined games all at max settings witn 2x AA and 4x Anisotropic filtering at 1440/900 and it runs perfect.

Sell off your card and upgrade to the 8800GTS

I've got 2 BFG 8800GTX 768M PCIe Video Cards sli'ed and its amazing. Max out every setting and it runs like a dream =)

You run like a dream Tanaka.

I've got 2 BFG 8800GTX 768M PCIe Video Cards sli'ed and its amazing

That's where SLI actually comes in handy. When you have too much money and the fastest card at the time isn't fast enough, so you get 2 :)

But after a year or two, it's usually cheaper and faster overall to get a single, faster card.

but what about physics? and havok FX?

but what about physics? and havok FX?

Wake me up when these things become relevant :)

I've got 2 BFG 8800GTX 768M PCIe Video Cards sli'ed and its amazing. Max out every setting and it runs like a dream =)

Geez, I'd be jealous if there actually was something out, or even potentially in the next few months that a single card couldn't already do that.

Waste of monies that was.

I'm trying to convince work to set up a physX enabled machine on demo so that people can actually see it in action. No one is ever going to buy a card that they've only ever seen screenshot's of. Hell, I've even offered to buy the games to install on the system.

You run like a dream Tanaka.

TK is a dream (mm dreamie..)

I run stuff at 1680x1050 but if it chunks up I don't mind dropping some detail down. I think I'll go the SLI option purely because if I get an 8x00 series then I'll want to SLI that since I'm never satisified :)

I'll take your old one ?