- Joined
- Dec 3, 2004
- Location
- VT... or MD
I'm getting tired of my old x1950xt, it does its job most of the time, but I fear its showing its age in some of the newer games I sometimes think about picking up. Hell, it could never even run an instance of EQ2 at max settings in each monitor. I won't be dealing w/ ati when it is replaced as I'm tired of the random driver issues.
The system is a Q9550 w/ 8gb of ram (ram increase happening at the same time or before the GPU). Its also running 6 HDD's, so there is probably decent load on the PSU at times. I think i upgraded the 610w to something in the 850w range, but I can't remember.
Anyway, I'd like to switch to a two video card setup for under $300 put into the cards. Is there anything out there from nVidia that will do more than a pair of 9800GT's with LESS power? Using less power is the key here, not overall efficiency due to the unknown / probably limiting situation with the PSU that I'd rather not replace, lol cheap.
The system is a Q9550 w/ 8gb of ram (ram increase happening at the same time or before the GPU). Its also running 6 HDD's, so there is probably decent load on the PSU at times. I think i upgraded the 610w to something in the 850w range, but I can't remember.
Anyway, I'd like to switch to a two video card setup for under $300 put into the cards. Is there anything out there from nVidia that will do more than a pair of 9800GT's with LESS power? Using less power is the key here, not overall efficiency due to the unknown / probably limiting situation with the PSU that I'd rather not replace, lol cheap.
