HELP HD3870 OR 8800GT i am buying 2 and SLi or Crossfire

hey i really need help with this one i am a gamer and been using a 8600gt for a while now and its fine

i am buying my new computer its a Q6600 2.4ghz
Gigabyte P35-DS3P mobo

but i am either gunna get 2 8800gt or the 3870

i see the 3870 has a faster core clock faster memory as it is gddr4

and it supports DX10.1


it has many bonus compare to the 8800


but the 8800 cost more and everyone is saying to get it


i need some real help on this one please tell me which one is better

 

Simple is better


Geforce 8800 > x3870
^
Geforce 9600 (cheaper than both of them)

The best combination possible is two 9600's in SLI:
9600 GT OverClocked << Product Details << GALAXY Technology

and if you get it cheap you should be able to get two of them for $400-500

 

yeh mate i got a galaxy 8600gt right now with my opld pc and its pritty awsome

i mostly need help on the two stated

how could the 8800 beat the 3870 when the 3870 has better suport and faster?

as u can see here the 3870 is better too

 

Hmm, ok guys. Lets read up on our chipsets next time lol. First off with a p35 chipset motherboard you won't be able to SLI. That automatically get rid of your issue. You can SLI ONLY on nvidia chipsets. Another issue you will find is that the p35 does not support two full x16 pci-e ports. You will get either one 16x and one 4x or two 8x. Either way your cards will be bottle necked. You would want to look into a different chipset (like a 680i or 780i if you want to SLI or an x38/x48 if you want to crossfire.)

 

The 8800 isn't even listed on there... And paper specs rarely mean much unles you are compairing similar items. The architecture is completely different, as well as the shaders clocks being HUGELY different.

What you have listed there is a 9600GT which is NOT a 8800 and does NOT perform at the same level of an 8800.

 

lol sorry bout taht forgot that the comparison was diff


and also i didnt know that intel could xfire like that

so i found a new mobo
the
ASUS P5N SLI

 

Which one? The reason being that ASUS put quite a few P5N boards out. P5N-E, XT, D, MX. Whichever one you get, make sure you don't get an x50i chipset mobo. You want an x80i chipset. That will give you full SLI support. The 650i chipset still doesn't support the full bandwidth, it's like a p35 chipset without as great overclockability but with the ability to SLI on.