maximus wrote:

That's a premium build, man. Very similar in design philosophy to something I have planned: […]
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That's a premium build, man. Very similar in design philosophy to something I have planned:

P5NE32-SLI -or- Asus Striker Extreme
Pentium D 965 3.73 GHz
2x 7900 GTX

Just barely one step back from your build, but a world of difference in terms of CPU and GPU architectures. Would be interesting to compare benchmarks 😀

I would like to have an Extreme Edition Pentium-D 965, I only have normal Pentium-D 950/945 but I never seem to find a 965 for a fair price.
I will have to use 7800 256MB GTX SLI for my 2005 build, I have plenty of those.

I finally got the time to install another 8800 GTX for SLI today!

Getting SLI up and running was not as strait forward as I would have hoped as the Asus card pictured above in the thread was dead. I dug deeper in the treasure boxes and found another Asus and an Inno3d card. The second Asus card was just as broken as the first but the Inno3d card was working.

Here is a picture showing all the cards.

3dmark 06, 8800 GTX SLI

3dmark Vantage, 8800 GTX SLI

An 8800 was a dream of mine back then.

But who'd have thought (well obviously technology progresses) that my current 7 year old gfx card is 2.5x more powerful. Crazy! 😊

Blurredman wrote:

An 8800 was a dream of mine back then.

But who'd have thought (well obviously technology progresses) that my current 7 year old gfx card is 2.5x more powerful. Crazy! 😊

Then I must be doing something wrong because 7 years ago the G80 on the 8800 GTX (and Ultra) was still the fastest GPU in the world 😉
But I guess you mean the 6.5 year old GTX 280, it should perform about the same as Geforce 8800 GTX SLI if its benchmarked with the same CPU.

Skyscraper wrote:

Blurredman wrote:

An 8800 was a dream of mine back then.

But who'd have thought (well obviously technology progresses) that my current 7 year old gfx card is 2.5x more powerful. Crazy! 😊

Then I must be doing something wrong because 7 years ago the G80 on the 8800 GTX (and Ultra) was still the fastest GPU in the world 😉
But I guess you mean the 6.5 year old GTX 280, it should perform about the same as Geforce 8800 GTX SLI if its benchmarked with the same CPU.

I kinda meant the standard, (and single) 8800. 😊.

2004 up through 2009 was pretty epic in their own way and to some extend the last of the great hardware mods for overclocking ect. Now days everything is canned and limited by software profiles 🙁