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JustJohn
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 Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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| 4870 stomps the 9800 though. You should be comparing it to the 260. And if prices stay at what they just dropped to I'd go with a dual 8800GT setup. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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| JustJohn wrote: |
| 4870 stomps the 9800 though. You should be comparing it to the 260. And if prices stay at what they just dropped to I'd go with a dual 8800GT setup. |
Right.
The 4870 ($300) is comparable to the GTX260 ($450....soon to be $400).
The 4850 ($200) is comparable to the 9800GTX ($200-$230).
A dual 8800GT setup would be very tempting at those new prices. If two 8800GT's 512mb can be had for as little as $300!................ That's tempting indeed. But, of course, you need an SLI-ready motherboard and a pretty hefty PSU.
Here's a link showing just how powerful two 8800GT's can be....
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3341&p=13
They beat the GTX280 in Crysis!! By 6fps!
Increasingly, especially with ATI, multi-GPU set-up's seem to be the way to go. I know that the next motherboard I buy will definitely have two PCIe-2.0-X16 slots.
I'm still a little put off with the teething problems in the drivers of Crossfire/SLI but those complaints are becoming less common.
Edit: A quick check on Danawa shows that these exciting new price drops only exist outside Korea!! 
Two decent 8800GT's will still cost an average of 440,000won in Korea. $422!!! |
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cubanlord
Joined: 08 Jul 2005
Location: In Japan!
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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[quote="eamo"]
| JustJohn wrote: |
Edit: A quick check on Danawa shows that these exciting new price drops only exist outside Korea!!
Two decent 8800GT's will still cost an average of 440,000won in Korea. $422!!! |
Korea = Home of the monopolistic butttttholes. |
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JustJohn
Joined: 18 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 6:10 pm Post subject: |
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| That's because they JUST happened. With any luck those price cuts will hit Korea within a week. |
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Temporary
Joined: 13 Jan 2008
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| Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 6:43 pm Post subject: |
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Wanna see something effin crazy...
Go to Lenovo.com Korea and USA or Canada.
Then check out the prices for a ThinkPad T61P |
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