Which video card

[Dead Bodies]

Originally Posted by Eloricth

To Dead Bodies: I ran SLi for a good while. Across both 6x & 7x series nVidia cards. They STILL don't have SLi to a point where it outperforms a single card config enough to justify the money needed to get two cards. You'd do better to take the money from the dual 7800's and buy a single 8800GT 512 (G92). Best-bang-for-your-buck card on the market at the moment.
-Elo

8800GT 512 (G92). -Its going to be something like 280$ and according to all reviews I find it is barely a step below the ultra/gtx of current design. If i was going to spend the money and get a single card id hold out for GTX series or wait for 88xx it should be falling under 300 soon.

(yes i know its worth 400+ but the gtx prices have ben falling steady.)

so thats why i spend 70 bucks a peice and run two...




The 8800 GTX is still the fastest card. It's just that the number of stream processors make a much bigger impact on performance than width of the memory bus, especially on the 8800's which already have alot of bandwidth.


... i really got to get around to building that new case MORE COLD AIR!

Dead Bodies

[Smeghead]

Well I just bought this:

Processor Type: Intel Pentium D processor 925
Frequence: 3.0 GHz
FSB: 800 MHz
Cache: 4 MB

2GB 800MHz DDR2 PC6400 RAM Memory

and im probably going to get:
Nvida GeForce 8600GT 8600 GT PCI-E

[Eloricth]

Cool. Yah, the prices on all of the 88xx Gxx cards will be dropping since the 9xxx cards are just around the corner with DX10.1 and whatnot... And yah, if you've got the extra cash to drop for GTX's, by all means, go with that, but most of us don't. Though I bet we wish we did! lol

Anyway, it's an awesome technology, but it's not perfect...yet. Look at benchmarks for SLi enabled games. From what I've seen, you're only looking at a 10-15 FPS increase AT MOST for another $250-$400. Not QUITE worth it to me.

-Elo

Originally Posted by Dead Bodies

8800GT 512 (G92). -Its going to be something like 280$ and according to all reviews I find it is barely a step below the ultra/gtx of current design. If i was going to spend the money and get a single card id hold out for GTX series or wait for 88xx it should be falling under 300 soon.

(yes i know its worth 400+ but the gtx prices have ben falling steady.)

so thats why i spend 70 bucks a peice and run two...




The 8800 GTX is still the fastest card. It's just that the number of stream processors make a much bigger impact on performance than width of the memory bus, especially on the 8800's which already have alot of bandwidth.


... i really got to get around to building that new case MORE COLD AIR!

Dead Bodies

[Davy]

Just save up and buy a stacked laptop. That's what I play on. Basic intel gfx, 1gig ram.