Prey:
For our Prey tests we ran them on standard settings (No Anti-Aliasing) as well as 4X Anti Aliasing which is the max setting the benchmarking software we’re using allowed for, thankfully they gave us some very useable results even on such low video settings.
For the No-AA tests we see a difference between the standard and OC cards of around 4.2% in the top resolution, though this drops as the resolution comes down, similar to some of the Quake 4 results. The is only a minor difference between the two SLI setups, and only at the very top resolution, a whole 2% difference – Whoopty do!
The 4xAA tests show a bit more of a difference between the cards, but not a whole lot, the biggest difference is around 6% between the single cards at 1600x1200 and 1280x1024, the SLI setups showed an increase across the range for the OC cards, but only VERY minor in the low resolutions up to a maximum difference of around 4.1% up high.
Crysis with a single card @ 4xAA has a really poor frame rate. Must have been very jerky.
What processor/MB would you recommend to get a single 8800GT or GTS (512) to work with higher frame rates?