BFG 7950 512 SLI vs EVGA g80 superclocked single

The 8800 Ultra is just an OC'D 8800GTX with an over-inflated price tag. Get a liquid-cooled 8800GTX from MSI and OC it to Ultra speeds.

The GTx superclocked and Ultra are different cards, and I'm not doing liquid cooling, my room is a constant 65F Case temp is 36C, its pretty cool without it, further than that, my cpu doesnt give off much heat, currently running at 28C overclocked.

Actaully if you look at the specs of the 8800 GTX vs. the 8800 Ultra, they are the same card. There BIOSes are different. But all and 8800 Ultra is, is an overclocked 8800 GTX.

And whatever you do never buy an MSI product. They are terrible. Trust me 3failures in six-months!

Lucky... my room is a constant 30C

yeah that's the problem with air, bring all that hot room in the air into the case.

The Ultra shares the same GPU as the GTX with higher clocks. I didn't mean for you to get liquid-cooling, but meant to say that MSI and BFG sell GTXs with liquid-cooling setups on them in contrast to the HSFs found on others. That'd enable you to clock the GTX upto (and maybe beyond) the Ultra's speeds for a price less than the Ultra's.

The MSI and EVGA liquid cooling systems are flops, From reading reviews they cant get much higher overclocks than the gtx superclocked, and they cost more.

Hmm, didn't know about that. And the BFG one is almost as expensive as the Ultra. Talk about marketing hype! In any case, the Ultra is very marginally better than the GTX, but large price difference doesn't justify it.

All I can say is if you intend to get a new card. Make sure that it is eVGA. eVGA makes the best products. They are one of the largest partners with nVIDIA.

From what i can tell Dual 7900GTX cards in SLI are comparable to a single 8800GTX, not sure how reliable the charts at Tom's are but there numbers can't be that far off.

Why get two cards when one card can do their job pretty easily and by sucking lesser power too? An X1950XTX Crossfire setup is on par with an 8800GTX and beats a 7900GTX SLI setup as well, so logic dictates that the 8800GTX is faster than a 7900GTX SLI setup. The 8800GTX may also be quieter than aforementioned SLI and Crossfire setups and once OC'd, may crush them easily.

Just get 2 8800 ultra's in sli and it will solve all your problems. :approve:

Hehe, twite. No he should get SLi'ed eVGA e-GeForce 8800 GTX cards because they are really the same thing as 8800 Ultras.

Meh, those waterblocks specifically for 8800s are a waste of money. I'd rather get a good general GPU waterblock, and RAMsinks. That should do the trick.

They are not the same thing, the ultra outperforms the gtx in every category!

Not if overclocked, and that is the only thing an 8800 Ultra is! An overclocked version of the 8800 GTX. (With a minor BIOS mod that says GeForce 8800 Ultra instead of GTX)

Have fun stably overclocking a card that idle temps 60 degrees by 35% on air cooling.

Not the same card!

This is twice you have offended me. (Hehe twite and twice.)

I will refrain from flaming.

If you find the fact that i am correcting you in misinformed advice, then i think you are on the wrong website.

They are simply not the same cards.

But the performance gain is so small that it would be so stupid to spend the premium for the 8800 Ultra's.