buying a new gfx card for Â£100-150 is this ok for the price

Gimp Mask · Post by **Gimp Mask** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 1:34 pm

8800GT 512MB GDDR3 256bit Dual DVI PCI-E Graphics Card

its got dual bits and chit is it decent
or would you recommend something else instead

Core Clock Speed 650 MHz
RAMDAC Clock Speed 400 MHz

its got dack ram as well

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 2:01 pm

That's a lot of numbers and abbreviations so it must be good stuff.

It sells on amazon for Â£120-ish, so that's probably a fair price.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 4:13 pm

8800 GT is a solid choice, although a witsy-bitsy little bit outdated by now. Go for it, mang

rabidpeanut · Post by **rabidpeanut** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 4:55 pm

Try to get hold of an 8800 gts 512.

*512* and NOT 320 or 640 because they suck.

The 512 is the fastest 8800 next to the ultra and in some cases even beats that.

And if you can get the xfx xxx edition too, you get a SWEET card for next to nothing.

But i dont think you will really be that pleased with anything below a 4870 if you want to play crysis.

Warhead, despite it's DRM and 'optimization' which makes it fucking gorgeous about a metre away from you and look like diakatana any futher, is a very cool game.

I just wish i could un-optimize it. I will ask the guys at crymod, or maybe just copy the old quality configs from vanilla crysis.

And they fucking changed the detail setting to a whole bunch of really gay names, like enthusiast, gamer, mainstream and swell guy. swell guy being the one that everyone at EA's pr department uses. I SWEAR i will hack it and change it all back to how it was.

NE WAY.

If i were you sikka i would save up for a little longer and wait for inte's GPU to come out and rape the market, thus making every good card near worthless. I watch the Pc market constantly and i am willing to bet that intel has something KILLER on the way. SO just stick it out for a while onger, and then when you get the upgrae the games will be cheaper too thus saving you oodles of munny.

I hate intel, but i am willing to bet the larrabee is going to rape everything out there.

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 5:44 pm

You don't need a gfx card to play Killa.

Gimp Mask · Post by **Gimp Mask** » Sun Sep 21, 2008 7:47 pm

thanks guys i would like to buy it but since im a cheap bastard i most probably will just procrastinate for another few months and ask again and get the exact same replies

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 3:56 am

get ati

entertainer · Post by **entertainer** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 6:38 am

don't get ati

jetbaby · Post by **jetbaby** » Mon Sep 22, 2008 7:15 am

Do get ATI. I'd have to catch up but I preferred them WAY more when I bought this rig. Need to start looking into stuff again since I need a new machine.

As for that card, don't. Get a 9800 for about the same if not less?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814150314

I dunno what prices on PC hardware are like over the pond, but why get an 8000 series when 9000 are cheap as dirt?

S4ur0n27 · Post by **S4ur0n27** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 3:04 am

Sometimes, bigger numbers are not always better.

Redeye · Post by **Redeye** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 6:01 am

Sometimes they give you double ram but it is cheaper, slower ram and the pipes connecting the chips are often the same number as with the "lesser" card, and slower as well.

Usually happens with things called "turbo" or "x" or "2000"/etc.

MR Snake · Post by **MR Snake** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 1:57 pm

umm. the new Nvidia 9800 something 1GB costs NOTHING. Like 200 euro? Why not go for that?

rabidpeanut · Post by **rabidpeanut** » Wed Sep 24, 2008 10:56 pm

WAIT.

The longer you wait the better your computer will be.

Wait for larrabee to launch. When that hits the fan everything's price is going to fucking plummet.

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 5:03 am

If you go for the "wait for better shit to come" -route you'll end up waiting forever and never having a computer.

rabidpeanut · Post by **rabidpeanut** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 10:41 am

THat is true too, but right now is not the time to buy. I know it looks like it is, but larrabee is coming, you guys don't seem to get quite how significant this is.

MR Snake · Post by **MR Snake** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 8:39 pm

Larrabee is the codename for a graphics processing unit (GPU) chip that Intel is developing separately from its current line of integrated graphics accelerators. The video card containing Larrabee is expected to compete with GeForce and Radeon products from NVIDIA and AMD/ATI respectively. Larrabee will also compete in the GPGPU and high-performance computing markets. Intel plans to have engineering samples of Larrabee ready by the end of 2008, with a video card hitting shelves in late 2009 or 2010.[1]

Cool stuff.

rabidpeanut · Post by **rabidpeanut** » Thu Sep 25, 2008 11:40 pm

DAAMIT NVIDIA IS GETTING RAPED BY INTEL.

VasikkA · Post by **VasikkA** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 10:47 am

MR Snake wrote:
Larrabee is the codename for a graphics processing unit (GPU) chip that Intel is developing separately from its current line of integrated graphics accelerators. The video card containing Larrabee is expected to compete with GeForce and Radeon products from NVIDIA and AMD/ATI respectively. Larrabee will also compete in the GPGPU and high-performance computing markets. Intel plans to have engineering samples of Larrabee ready by the end of 2008, with a video card hitting shelves in late 2009 or 2010.[1]
Cool stuff.

Since it's a new product line, expect at least 2 years of driver/compatibility issues. Game developers have to adapt as well.

Urizen · Post by **Urizen** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 6:01 pm

http://techreport.com/articles.x/15559

rabidpeanut · Post by **rabidpeanut** » Fri Sep 26, 2008 7:56 pm

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/10226/amd ... index.html

Waiting is a good thing.