Looks like a solid setup. No Audigy 2ZS to fill it out?

Very nice, keen to see how you go with building that beast.

I found 7800 gtxs for $18-20. For $5-9 more than two of those you could get a gtx 285 for $45 which should be quite a bit faster.

awgamer wrote:

I found 7800 gtxs for $18-20. For $5-9 more than two of those you could get a gtx 285 for $45 which should be quite a bit faster.

pointless for what I'd play on it a pair of 7800GTX's will smoke it.

The most advanced game will be Medal of Honor Pacific Assault

Private_Ops wrote:

Looks like a solid setup. No Audigy 2ZS to fill it out?

honestly going to look for an Xfi PCIe card for it instead. Why not get EAX 5.0

candle_86 wrote:

awgamer wrote:

I found 7800 gtxs for $18-20. For $5-9 more than two of those you could get a gtx 285 for $45 which should be quite a bit faster.

A 8800 GTX is faster than 7900 GTXs in SLI: http://www.computerbase.de/2006-12/bericht-nv … 8800-gtx-sli/8/, 8800 GTXs go for $35 on ebay, so cheaper, faster and much less power required than 7800 GTX SLI.

candle_86 wrote:

pointless for what I'd play on it a pair of 7800GTX's will smoke it.

GTX 285 is akin to 8800 GTX in SLI, so no.

awgamer wrote:

A 8800 GTX is faster than 7900 GTXs in SLI: http://www.computerbase.de/2006-12/bericht-nv … 8800-gtx-sli/8/, 8800 GTXs go for $ […]
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candle_86 wrote:

awgamer wrote:

I found 7800 gtxs for $18-20. For $5-9 more than two of those you could get a gtx 285 for $45 which should be quite a bit faster.

A 8800 GTX is faster than 7900 GTXs in SLI: http://www.computerbase.de/2006-12/bericht-nv … 8800-gtx-sli/8/, 8800 GTXs go for $35 on ebay, so cheaper, faster and much less power required than 7800 GTX SLI.

candle_86 wrote:

pointless for what I'd play on it a pair of 7800GTX's will smoke it.

GTX 285 is akin to 8800 GTX in SLI, so no.

again i dont need that kind of power a pair of 7800GTX's will smoke any game I will use on it. As for an 8800GTX being lower power, who told you that lie. 7800GTX has far lower max power demands. If i was to upgrade the video it would only be to a pair of 7900GTX's

>who told you that lie.

Power meters.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/geforce- … -gtx-sli,3.html

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/200 … 8800_gtx_g80/18

Those down clocked 7950gx2s are less power though, they go for $57.

Here's a direct comparison between 7900 gtx sli vs 8800 gtx.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/2116/22

nice build. the windsor 6000 was really something. the only thing i would change is the video card. i think a single 8800gt would be best in terms of reliability, ease and period correctness. 8800gtx had a bad habit of burning out.

awgamer wrote:

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>who told you that lie.

Power meters.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/geforce- … -gtx-sli,3.html

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/200 … 8800_gtx_g80/18

Those down clocked 7950gx2s are less power though, they go for $57.

yea using two different system configurations to measure power draw from two different sites, not even close to empirical data.

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/graphics/dis … -indepth_6.html
NVIDIA recommends a 350W and higher power supply capable of yielding 22 amperes on the +12V rail for a system with a single GeForce 7800 GTX.

http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail … and-8800-gts%3F
8800 GTX:

This graphics card requires:

PCI Express®-compliant motherboard with one x16 graphics slot

2 6-pin supplementary power connectors

Minimum 450W or greater system power supply (with 12V current rating of 30A)*

I'm sorry but no.

sgt76 wrote:

nice build. the windsor 6000 was really something. the only thing i would change is the video card. i think a single 8800gt would be best in terms of reliability, ease and period correctness. 8800gtx had a bad habit of burning out.

Nah for me they will work great, I got a good deal on them, a pair of Dell 7800GTX's, $22 dollars for both in working condition.

If for someone reason i find my 7800GTX's lacking though I will likely jump to a GTS 250 SLI setup. I don't trust 8800GT's.

I have two 7800 GTX cards as well:

Apart from V2 SLI, I actually never played around with any Nvidia SLI 😊

A single 7800 GTX is fine for pretty much all the XP games. Maybe F.E.A.R. at 1600 x 1200 not so much, but for everything else it's a great card.

I think I have a similar SLI board to yours, but I might just go all out and use a modern AM3+ board 🤣

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

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I have two 7800 GTX cards as well:

Apart from V2 SLI, I actually never played around with any Nvidia SLI 😊

A single 7800 GTX is fine for pretty much all the XP games. Maybe F.E.A.R. at 1600 x 1200 not so much, but for everything else it's a great card.

I think I have a similar SLI board to yours, but I might just go all out and use a modern AM3+ board 🤣

mine look as thus

And my motherboard I had one back in 2007 and loved it. I forgot to put the e after M2N, so its really Nforce 4 for AM2 aka Nforce 500 SLI.

I think your cards might actually be 7800 GTX 512.

They are clocked much higher, perform on the level of the 7900 GTX, double the RAM and a nice cooler.

PhilsComputerLab wrote:

I think your cards might actually be 7800 GTX 512.

They are clocked much higher, perform on the level of the 7900 GTX, double the RAM and a nice cooler.

I also own a Dell branded Geforce 7800 GTX with that cooler, mine is the normal 256MB version. Dell probably used the 512MB version aswell but the cooler is not enough to say it's a 512MB version sadly.

Interesting, good old Dell 😁

Yea they are 256mb cards bot the cooler should let me oc

SLI generally is not a good idea. AMD stuff too.

Tertz wrote:

SLI generally is not a good idea. AMD stuff too.

SLI is great and whats wrong with AMD?