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My Next Video Card, 8800 or 9600?
Replies: 40 — Last Post April 5 10:21am by Dickij03
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Quote: from Dickij03 at 3:06 pm on Mar. 28, 2008
Well Ill be ordering my new motherboard and 9600gt next tuesday so should have em on wednesday... Not really looking forward to a reformat though :\

I'll post some results then :P

I hate reformats. Vistas not nearly as bad if you have the right drivers though.

Whats your processor? I want to know how similar spec we are.

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Amd Athlon AM2 6400+ @ 3.4Ghz 1.55v
Geil 4x1GB ddr2 800mhz ram




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Actually the above may change around the same time of ordering my parts... Seems that there are no SLI AM2+ boards out atm and well really i have enough to get a SLI 650i board and a Q6600 G0.

So it might be a bit later than Wednesday depending on when i get some money in.

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Quote: from Dickij03 at 12:20 pm on Mar. 29, 2008
Actually the above may change around the same time of ordering my parts... Seems that there are no SLI AM2+ boards out atm and well really i have enough to get a SLI 650i board and a Q6600 G0.

So it might be a bit later than Wednesday depending on when i get some money in.

Yeah, Im waiting on the SLI for my Phenom.

Intel (nvidia) has released the chipset, I just havent seen any manufacturers using it yet.

Im going to Google around and see if I can figure out when it is released.

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get the 9800 gtx. They're just starting to come out.  

I got the 8800gt because of a budget and it's working fine on high demand games. Just pick one soon because ATI is  releasing a new 3870x2.

Pricing and release is still up for grabs though/

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Quote: from blitzerdog at 1:26 am on April 1, 2008
get the 9800 gtx. They're just starting to come out.  

I got the 8800gt because of a budget and it's working fine on high demand games. Just pick one soon because ATI is  releasing a new 3870x2.

Pricing and release is still up for grabs though/

Price is a HUGE issue.

I cant drop $600 on a video card.



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Same. Id much rather get two 9600gt's for $400 and get better performance :P

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Quote: from Dickij03 at 8:09 am on April 2, 2008
Same. Id much rather get two 9600gt's for $400 and get better performance :P

Actually, they arent nearly as expensive as once thought.

They are only $320. I could see myself buying one now.  

Even more so that my rig cant do SLI (grr, no Phenom SLI boards...still!).  

As far as performance, I hear its about the same (9800 is just an SLI 9600 on the same board.)

Edit: Scratch all of that! I was going on what I read on Engadget the other day. $320 my ass!

They are about $600!

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The answer is easy. Are you a hardcore or casual gamer? Can you handle playing future titles at medium-high settings? Or must you have every game play at ultra/high settings on high resolution?

Hardcore=8800GT 512MB about $200 bucks

Casual= Go with the 8800GTS 320MB about $115 after MIRB

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Okey got my 680I lt Motherboard installed with a Q6600 to go with it. Clocked it to 2.8 Automatically and plan on Priming it all night so it has a good burn in :D


Plus my second 9600gt will come tommorow so i can see me doing some benchmarking once i find top q6600 overclock and top overclock for 9600gt's

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Damn overclockers messed the order up so it's comming Monday instead... Ohewell its given me enough time to get my q6600 @ 3Ghz and my ram up to 950mhz Cas5.

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