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Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Its rumored that the 4850 will be around the 250 mark. |
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cubanlord

Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Location: In Japan!
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 7:35 pm Post subject: |
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| Nvidia just moved its NDA. June 2nd is official review release date for new Nvidia cards and 17th is the Official retail release. I believe ATI is launching on the 24th or the 18th. |
right, but, I wonder how much cheaper the 8800GT will get?! What, $10? |
You'll be sorry if you buy an 8800GT. It's slipping fast down the GPU charts. By the Fall it will be yesterdays card. |
Yes, but for the money, it's what i can afford. What would you recommend, then, around the 200 marker? Why would you even buy a 9 series when it has virtually the same architecture as the 8 series. Furthermore, if you weigh the performance difference between the 8 series and 9 series and compare the price for each, well, it just isn't worth it imo. |
http://techreport.com/discussions.x/14745
True. Just a little over what you are quoting. If that is the case, I may just buy that one. However, I need to compare the two. Hold on... |
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cubanlord

Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Location: In Japan!
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kprrok
Joined: 06 Apr 2004 Location: KC
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 7:55 pm Post subject: |
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| What would you recommend, then, around the 200 marker? |
I've read several places where the 9600GT OC is just as fast as a stock speed 880GT and it's normally at least $50 cheaper.
Prices may not fall much, but I'd still wait until the newer cards come out and see how they perform. Yeah, the 4850 is rumored around $225-250, and the GT200s will be much more expensive!
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eamo

Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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These days, 200-250 clams can get you a great card (8800GT/HD3870/9600GT) which will play most of todays games at high or very high settings.......
......but they are already in league two. The premier league cards start at around 300 bucks, as they have done for the past few years and probably will continue to do. The 9800GTX and the 3870x2 are 360,000 or more today. They outperform the above 200$ cards by quite a margin. When the next-gen are released this summer.......you might hope those 360,000 cards drop below 300,000......but in Korea???? I doubt it.
Best bang for buck at the moment seems to be the 9600GT. They seem to be really cheap on Danawa. An XFX 9600GT extreme 512MB is 160,000!!!! Great deal for a card that's within a hair of matching the 8800GT/HD3870. |
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cubanlord

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Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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These days, 200-250 clams can get you a great card (8800GT/HD3870/9600GT) which will play most of todays games at high or very high settings.......
......but they are already in league two. The premier league cards start at around 300 bucks, as they have done for the past few years and probably will continue to do. The 9800GTX and the 3870x2 are 360,000 or more today. They outperform the above 200$ cards by quite a margin. When the next-gen are released this summer.......you might hope those 360,000 cards drop below 300,000......but in Korea???? I doubt it.
Best bang for buck at the moment seems to be the 9600GT. They seem to be really cheap on Danawa. An XFX 9600GT extreme 512MB is 160,000!!!! Great deal for a card that's within a hair of matching the 8800GT/HD3870. |
Man...the 8800GT just gives you more for the money.
Okay. So, the 8800GT Alpha dog edition or the 8800GTS. I've been looking at the performance rates of these and they aren't that different. It looks like the extra almost $100 isn't worth it for the 8800GTS. Thoughts? By the way, the Alpha dog edition is differen than the standard 8800GT in that it is factory OCed. |
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eamo

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Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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You want to pay extra for a factory OC'd card when you could get the stock version and do it yourself in 10 seconds?
It ssems you're determined to get an 8800GT. So I'd say get the cheapest 512mb version out there. Then OC it. |
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IncognitoHFX

Joined: 06 May 2007 Location: Yeongtong, Suwon
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Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 7:34 am Post subject: |
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I agree that you should wait til the new cards come out in about 3 weeks, prices will come down then...
Here's a pic with some Crysis settings that'll give you an idea about the 8800GT. I got it from [H]OCP.
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I run it with all high settings on my 8800GT and I have absolutely no problems, spare the occasional chop-up which I think only happened with the vanilla version. |
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Nowhere Man

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Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 9:16 am Post subject: ... |
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| For me, Crysis was a nextgen version of Farcry. Looks nice, but I didn't find it terribly interesting. |
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keetrainchild
Joined: 06 May 2008
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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 4:18 pm Post subject: New system specifications |
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My motherboard was damaged during the trip home, so it gave me a good excuse to sell my old parts on Ebay and build a new computer (actually, get a new CPU and video card, as well as a motherboard and RAM).
My new specifications are a Q6600 at 3Ghz (why overclock it more? I can't tell a difference, really), P5N-D, 8800GT, 4GB DDR2/1066. Crysis is smooth almost all the time (so my guess is about 45fps average) with everything on high in DX9. I play using the Natural modification, so that might change it a bit, too.
I also know why my system was choppier before: I was playing it in DX10 on my 4200+ and 8800GTS, and DX10 definitely yields lower framerates than DX9. I'm running Vista x64, by the way. Anyway, I finally beat the game, and wow, was it lovely and smooth. |
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JustJohn

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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:22 pm Post subject: |
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| If you had the physics quality up maybe it was your CPU that couldn't handle it before. Also I hear running it in dx10 will give you a pretty noticeable performance hit. |
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