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Should I sell my GTX now?

easyrider said:
Selling the GTX a month ago would have been worth it.

You have sadly now missed the boat.

Keep the GTX and pick another one up cheap when the GTS hits.

If I could get a a 8800 GTX for 170 ish then I would sell my GT tomo.

Unfortuately the GTS will be the card to get making the GTX redundant very soon.
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Hardly, the 8800GTX was around £300-350 even before the 8800GT and still is, as for the 8800GTS, it only has a 256bit bus so the 8800GTX/Ultra still have an advantage here and that’s enough to differentiate them and help them maintain a high price tag, plus it has 768MB of memory which is also an advantage over the 512MB version of 8800GTS, I see no reason why the 8800GTX/Ultra will lose their price premium but yes they will probably drop slightly but not much.
 
I'd hang onto the 8800GTX for now and get another one later second hand. I expect that in a couple of months you'll be able to pick up another 8800GTX for the current (rather inflated) price of a 8800GT. That way you have decent power now and SLI power in a few months.

Ginga
 
ebilcake said:
Hardly, the 8800GTX was around £300-350 even before the 8800GT and still is, as for the 8800GTS, it only has a 256bit bus so the 8800GTX/Ultra still have an advantage here and that’s enough to differentiate them and help them maintain a high price tag, plus it has 768MB of memory which is also an advantage over the 512MB version of 8800GTS, I see no reason why the 8800GTX/Ultra will lose their price premium but yes they will probably drop slightly but not much.
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They already have dropped.

In MM they are becoming increasingly difficult to sell for 200+

Its all about bang for buck.

Fact is the GT offers close to GTX perfromance for a fraction of the cost.

Regardless of the 256 Bus.
 
I'm a bit late here but I would sell it quick while it's still worth at least a little more than a GT. I sold my GTX for £250 recently and bought myself a GT and the GT OC'ed is quicker than my GTX OC'ed was by quite a bit.

The only trade off is that it struggles in Crysis with antialiasing on, but that's worth saving £100 to me. :)

Edit: The "wait until they drop in value a bit more and buy a second GTX" option sounds even better. I would have done that myself but I wanted to reclaim £100, and buying a second GTX would put me in the red.

(Not financially in the red, just in regards to the money I set aside for upgrades.)
 
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I'm feeling a bit crazy too, what option should I go for? Note that I'll the running the cards at stock settings on a screen at 2560x1600.

1) 8800 GTX -> GTS -> 9800 GTX
2) 8800 GTX -> 9800 GTX
 
sunderland said:
well i could be wrong but ive never seen a review were the gt is faster than a gtx but i could be wrong,and thats if both are overclocked
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The GTX has the advantage with high resolutions and antialiasing enabled, that's about it.

When it comes to overclocking, my GTX did something like 600/1000 and my GT (so far) does 700/1000. At my native resolution of 1680x1050 and those clocks, my GT creams my GTX in situations with little or no AA and leads it nicely in 3D Mark 06 too. Though 3D Mark doesn't really mean much.
 
easyrider said:
They already have dropped.

In MM they are becoming increasingly difficult to sell for 200+

Its all about bang for buck.

Fact is the GT offers close to GTX perfromance for a fraction of the cost.

Regardless of the 256 Bus.
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Only dropped slightly, there basically there same price if your buying the cheapest, still £300, they were the same before 8800GT arrived.

It's nothing to do with bang for buck, this thread is about selling a 8800GTX to buy a 8800GT, the overall gain from doing so is a slower card and £25-50 which isnt worth it.
 
ebilcake said:
Only dropped slightly, there basically there same price if your buying the cheapest, still £300, they were the same before 8800GT arrived.

It's nothing to do with bang for buck, this thread is about selling a 8800GTX to buy a 8800GT, the overall gain from doing so is a slower card and £25-50 which isnt worth it.
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Easy wasn't talking about buying an 8800GTX new, he was talking about second-hand.

If you're selling a GTX to buy a GT, like you just said the thread is about, then you'll find that easyrider is right and the value of a pre-owned 8800GTX is dropping like a sack of bricks.

I was lucky to get rid of mine when I did. A week later and I would've lost out on up to £50.
 
ebilcake said:
Hardly, the 8800GTX was around £300-350 even before the 8800GT and still is, as for the 8800GTS, it only has a 256bit bus so the 8800GTX/Ultra still have an advantage here and that’s enough to differentiate them and help them maintain a high price tag, plus it has 768MB of memory which is also an advantage over the 512MB version of 8800GTS, I see no reason why the 8800GTX/Ultra will lose their price premium but yes they will probably drop slightly but not much.
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All valid(ish) points however they are doing a 1Gb GTS card as well so there goes the memory advantage.

And secondly even with the 256bit bus, the fact you will have oc'd GTS cards running at 760 core and 2100+ memory will more than compensate and will beat both a GTX and a Ultra.

Throw in less power requirements (only 1 6 pin connector), cooler and everything is in favour of the new GTS.

However, people are still buying 8800 GTS 320Mb cards cause they think they are better than GT cards so they will still sell GTX and Ultras even if they don;t drop the price.
 
Ulfhedjinn said:
Is this the 128sp version you're talking about? If so I'll definitely be keeping my eye on them! :D
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Yep :D

I do quite fancy a G92 128sp GTS with 1gb running at 760/2100.

Might even run Crysis reasonably well......then again maybe not ;)

Might need two of them :p
 
Greebo said:
Yep :D

I do quite fancy a G92 128sp GTS with 1gb running at 760/2100.

Might even run Crysis reasonably well......then again maybe not ;)

Might need two of them :p
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It's G92 as well? I thought the new GTS were all going to be G80. :eek:

If they're definitely using G92 cores in them and 1GB RAM I will be buying one even if it costs.
 
Greebo said:
All valid(ish) points however they are doing a 1Gb GTS card as well so there goes the memory advantage.

And secondly even with the 256bit bus, the fact you will have oc'd GTS cards running at 760 core and 2100+ memory will more than compensate and will beat both a GTX and a Ultra.

Throw in less power requirements (only 1 6 pin connector), cooler and everything is in favour of the new GTS.

However, people are still buying 8800 GTS 320Mb cards cause they think they are better than GT cards so they will still sell GTX and Ultras even if they don;t drop the price.
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It's still an advantage over the 512MB version which I stated, and even 2100 memory with 256bit bus does not match the bandwidth of the GTX or Ultra so thats also still an advantage, nothing you said changes this.

Also, this is about selling the 8800GTX for a 8800GT, not which is faster as we all should know the answer to that, 8800GTS is still an unknown as we don't know for sure which core it's using or where it will be priced.
 
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