New WoW Machine

[Concillian]

Hi,

I agree with you.  See this post and my reply.  I had overlooked the potential for SLI, and it is big. :)

Thanks for the input, that's why I started this thread -- there's a whole lot more knowledge in Lounge than in most any five computer stores I can think of ;)

--Pete
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Generally 1x 6800GT > 2x6600GT. The 6600GTs start to struggle at high res with low memory bandwidth and the only reason to want more than 1x6600GT at this point is to be faster at high res.

Also it doesn't seem to have a huge impact on WoW specifically:
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=NzkzLDg=

Just like EverQuest II, we did not see a large performance increase with two 6800s in SLI over a single 6800 in this game. A single MSI GeForce 6800 played best at 1280x1024 with no AA and 16XAF. Unfortunately, when we put two cards in an SLI configuration, we simply did not see a big performance improvement. 2XAA at 1280x1024 was barely playable with the SLI configuration. Like EverQuest II, the single GeForce 6800 GT is faster than the 6800 SLI configuration.

They have other SLI articles, but the 6800 was the closest to a 6600GT that had an SLI test for WoW.