But that video card has existed for about 3 years now. I think that's bad. As it's basically borderline false advertising.

why do they even bother? the review should be one line "Refer to 8800 review"

Guru3D and Driverheaven just lost any semblance of credibility they had left in my eyes.

LOL, can someone explain to me the ****ing point of these reviews?

it earned them a shiny gold star from nvidia

One observation: The "GTS 250" has gone through a die shrink. So it should run cooler than my "old" 8800GTs and draw less power. Still that would only give me 256 Steam Processors compared to something like the 275GTX with 240 on a single card. The problem is that we all know SLI doesn't always give you 100% performance increase. In some cases it's only about 40%. And with a 275GTX selling for less than 2 GTS250s, I'd say these cards are for the Uninformed! Even the 192SP 260GTXs offer a superior value.

I dare say it, but it would seem that the increase was limited more by cpu then anything as SLI on the Core i7 platform seems to definitely double the FPS.

Ok, but what game are we talking here? Some games do great with an SLI rig, others don't work at all. Now I've set up most of my SLI rig again (just need to get the second video card back out of one of my other computers - which will happen some time tomorrow). So I plan on overclocking that setup, a Q9450, and we'll see how much difference that makes. (That's with a pair of G92s - so it's basically the 65nm version of these GTS250s with slightly lower clocks.)

But if they don't do that well, compared to my new GTX275. I'll get another 275 and use the old cards for Dedicated Physics. My bet is on the GTX275. Still I'm willing to see if it's close... See they're both clocked at 650MHz and the GTX is clocked at 666MHz. They both have 1GB of memory and the GTX has 896. And Combined they have 256 Stream Processors and the GTX has 240. And I can probably clock the C2Q to around 3.2GHz, so both CPUs will be running the same speed.

We'll see... I guess I'll have to load up something like Fallout 3 and Mass Effect, or maybe some Call of Duty 4, and UT3. Just don't ask me to bench Crysis, cause I don't have a copy (never have!). I don't buy games that don't play well. And I'm not a pirate.

im talking any game you throw at it., some of the newest titles gain from 10-15FPS using SLI with i7 over the SLI on a C2Q system.