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should i go with a 9600 gt 512 or keep my 8800 gts 320?
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wheelstb
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5. April 2008 @ 13:48 |
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i found a great deal on a pny 9600 gt 512 should i get that of stick with m evga 8800 gts 320, and just overclock it?
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5. April 2008 @ 14:18 |
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I would go with it. The extra amount of memory will help, and since they're pretty cheap you can pick up another down the road for SLi - they are great performers in SLi.
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5. April 2008 @ 16:50 |
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The 9600GT is a decent card, but really, it's not much of an upgrade from your 8800GTS. Either get an 8800GT or don't bother.
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5. April 2008 @ 18:28 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
The 9600GT is a decent card, but really, it's not much of an upgrade from your 8800GTS. Either get an 8800GT or don't bother.
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5. April 2008 @ 18:43 |
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heres my situation. I can sell my gts for about $120 and buy the 9600 for the same price with a rebate. does that change things? i have been looking to upgrade my card and get a decent preformance upgrade with out spending to much cash. What would u guys do?
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5. April 2008 @ 18:45 |
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5. April 2008 @ 19:12 |
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same performace as 9600GT so amek a choice between them if your not going for 8800GT
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5. April 2008 @ 19:18 |
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no it isn't. We've been over this, the 9600GT only equals the 3870 if AA is applied. Without AA, the 3870 is significantly faster.
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5. April 2008 @ 19:39 |
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5. April 2008 @ 19:47 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
no it isn't. We've been over this, the 9600GT only equals the 3870 if AA is applied. Without AA, the 3870 is significantly faster.
whats AA?
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5. April 2008 @ 20:23 |
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anti aliasing - It smooths out jagged lines on the screen and is a huge performance killer.
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6. April 2008 @ 05:40 |
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It's also worth mentioning that nvidia cards don't render AA as well as ATI ones do, which is why they suffer less of a performance drop.
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6. April 2008 @ 07:53 |
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6. April 2008 @ 09:59 |
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There's some dodgy drivers going on there, because those tests are completely wrong:
The performance of the 9600GT relative to the 3870 is nowhere near as significantly different in these tests:
http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/02/21/n..._gt/page13.html
And as far as I'm concerned, THG knows how to test stuff properly.
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6. April 2008 @ 10:05 |
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omg sam, youve got tunnel vision. what you say has to be correct; other peopel must be wrong.
hell i gave you a range of sites and results yet you beg not to belive it.
wtf.
mate you have red colour glasses painted on dont ya?
and read most of the other results and youll see they are matched, with out AA about 40% 3870s are better.
you think crysis is a crap bench (which youve said before) then you link me to it.
i remain non bias by putting results of heavily played games, and it shows the 3870 and 9600GT the SAME.
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6. April 2008 @ 10:59 |
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And you come stating facts you saw from random site and assume them to be entirely accurate.
Crysis is a bench which is skewed in nvidia's favour, which is why it isn't entirely accurate - even more meaningful then that the ATI card performs better under it. Overall, the difference between the 9600GT and HD3870 is very slight, but very slight differences seem to make the world of difference in this world of fanboyism, see 8800GTS vs 8800GT and 8800GT vs HD3870. A 10% difference is nowadays considered significant, a downside of the stagnation of the graphics industry, everybody is grabbing at the single extra frame per second, it's pathetic.
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6. April 2008 @ 17:40 |
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thanks for all the advice. all after seeing $200 8800 g92 witha a free witcher game i dont think i can pass it up.
its an msi,from what i understand its a great card, i hope its not going to be completely outdated by a price drop in 2 months. what do u guys think?
i think its a great card for the cash but will it be instantly outdated if i buy this week?
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6. April 2008 @ 17:42 |
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Being outdated uber-quick is inevitable unfortunately, getting an 8800GTS G92 kind of prevents that. for $200 you should go for it.
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6. April 2008 @ 18:57 |
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Personally i would stick with what you have got. All said and done there is not that much difference to render the upgrade to be honest.
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6. April 2008 @ 19:03 |
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The upgrade is going to be slight, but it really depends on how much wheelstb feels he/she needs the upgrade. You're probably only really looking at a 20-25% performance boost unless you're running out of VRAM. Unless you're using resolutions higher than 1280x1024, it would be wise to hang on to the old card or spend more. If you are using higher resolutions though, the new card may well help you out a lot.
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6. April 2008 @ 19:29 |
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I agree with sammorris personally i don't think it is worth the upgrade as you would not notice that much difference. If your wanting to game hard then spend a little more as this upgrade you would hardly notice.
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6. April 2008 @ 19:49 |
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u guys have given me great things to think about. if ido upgrade ill go with the g92.
the msi card comes with a game i figgure i can swell the game for $30 on ebay and i ve got a $40 rebaiot coimming, so it realy wouldnt coast me anything out of pocket. to upgrade.
or i could just wait untill there is a decent new card that comes out that steals the show. cards that are 2 yrs. old are still pretty much the way to go.
i am surprised the gtx is still the best proformer for the price.
is there anything comming out in the next few months i should keep my eye on?
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7. April 2008 @ 04:45 |
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There's rumours around for this that and the other, but I haven't heard anything that convinces me enough for me to consider it truth. Your best bet is to wait around and see what happens, a new generation of graphics cards is supposed to be in the pipeline, not sure how long away it is. The way I see it, don't upgrade your GPU for the sake of it, if you're struggling to pull a decent frame rate in a game using settings you'd ideally like to use, then don't wait for eternity to upgrade, but think hard about what your frame rate will be like in the same circumstances after an upgrade. A 30% increase in frame rate if you're only making 18fps only puts you at 23fps. As far as I'm concerned that doesn't really turn unplayable into playable. I usually stick with graphics upgrades that offer me near double the performance, if not quite there.
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wheelstb
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7. April 2008 @ 19:07 |
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think i am going to wait. i was looking to upgrade becase my card is a little weak althogh it works well for me and i could do it at realy no out of pocket coast. this my first time buying parts for a gaming rig and i fear i under estemated the power of the graphics cards i should have bought.
i might overclock my current card. but going to go with something from the 10 series without waiting too long.
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