Everyone's talking about it. No, it's not the iPhone but NVIDIA's latest salvo, the GeForce 8800 GT. With 3D performance almost on par with the company's own high-end GeForce 8800 GTX but with a price tag that's only slightly more than its mid-range GeForce 8600 GTS, this is probably the most exciting development in graphics cards for the DirectX 10 era, at least for the majority of consumers who could only drool at the Ultra's and GTX's from afar. The GeForce 8800 GTX is almost twice the price of a single GeForce 8800 GT for a couple more frames at normal resolutions of 1600x1200 and below, it naturally begs the question of SLI performance for a pair of GeForce 8800 GT 512MB cards. - Hardware Zone

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB SLI Gaming Preview

Obviously, one of the main drawbacks of having two graphics cards is the amount of power required to maintain them. Fortunately, while the GeForce 8800 GT SLI did not require twice as much power, it does need a fair amount and while running our benchmarks, it rose to 358W, making it the most power hungry choice. You can also expect temperatures to rise with two such cards in your system, even if individually, we don't anticipate any anomalies. However, the combined heat output should stress your chassis ventilation and that should be something to beware before embarking on this.

So is SLI with the GeForce 8800 GT a viable choice? From a purely performance point of view, it delivers the goods. However, at this moment, the drivers from NVIDIA don't seem up to the mark, with our 3D games experiencing horizontal flickering bands that seriously disrupted game play. We have seen this before and believe it to be a driver issue that hopefully will get addressed along with proper SLI support for Crysis. Although the SLI performance looks enticing, the various related issues, from the heat and/or power consumption to possible screen artifacts mean it's not as convincing as the scores suggest.