I have a friend whos building a SLI setup on a ASUS mobo. We have disided for now to get a single 6600gt and then later on get and identical card to do SLI. Do you have any reccomendations for which 6600GT to get? at the moment we are looking at a Gainward Ultra 1960 (says 2ns ram) or Asus Extreme N6600GT. Athough we are open to ideas tyvm slater..
Sorry Slater, but I'm high jacking your thread. I'm also doing a SLI set up on a MSI K8N neo 2 mobo, but at the moment 6600GT's are a bit thin on the ground in Thailand at the moment, and I couldn't find anything from XFX. So my question is: is there anything wrong with a Gigabyte 6600 GT; bearing in mind I don't want to overclock? Also I have two absolute noob questions: What is the difference between a PCI socket and a PCI-e socket? And Can I run a SLI set up with one card on the AGP socket and one card on a PCI socket? Feel free to flame me for those last two questions . I feel like a moron for having to ask them .
im more than happy with my leadtek 6600gt, not looked at any others to compare first hand but well impressed now doh! just read this again with my eyes open, mines a agp card, dunno if that'd effect the performance of the pciE card. just thought id give leadtek a thumbsup anyways
If you don't plan on overclocking at all, find the cheapest card around. As for pci it should not be used as it has VERY little bandwidth(not sure exactly but very, very slow) and thus is very slow compared to AGP or PCI-e. AGP is about average with 8x being 2.1GB/s but PCI-e is fastest at 4GB/s up and downstream. You can only run 2x PCI-e cards in SLI and it has to be supported by your mobo.
