GeForce 8800 GT 1024MB - £200!!!

[synixx]

b grade can mean a number of things...it might be as new with 1 cable missing...or it might come with just the bare card in a generic box

which is basically what OEM is right?

also b grade could be a reurned item, because of incompatibility with their setup or whatever. so pretty much new.

 

[RobH]

is that worth an extra £30?

You can get the 8800 GTS 512MB for an extra £30 which is worth it considering you'll actually see some performance increase.

for 24" monitor would the 1gb be a big difference over a 512mb GT?

I highly doubt it, spending the extra £30 on the 8800 GTS would be faster.

 

[willhub]

1GB GT's are a 100% waste of money even at high res from what I've seen.

 

[Biohazard]

Nah doesn't sound like its up to much then..

 

[WatchTower]

OCUK sell me B grade stuff even when that's not what I paid for all the time. lol

 

[blackninja]

My Question to OcUK:

**B Grade** Hyundai W240D-PVA 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - G:

What makes this item B Grade?

Response from OcUK:

it can mean anything from a little physical damage or cosmetic damaged or missing parts

Regards,


There you go - the 'B Grade'question definitively answered

 

[tom_e]

My Question to OcUK:

**B Grade** Hyundai W240D-PVA 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor - G:

What makes this item B Grade?

Response from OcUK:

it can mean anything from a little physical damage or cosmetic damaged or missing parts

Regards,


There you go - the 'B Grade'question definitively answered

Do you actually expect them to go hunting down that exact item and telling you specifically what is wrong with it? That would take far too many man hours with people asking all the time

 

[steve258]

If you want to spend £200 get the £199 GTS on sale this week, much better value. Otherwise add extra £10 for the B-grade GTX if you are playing very high resolution and like your AA & AF.

Otherwise get the £159 GT 512Mb. I'd even say 1Gb is slower since the mem won't overclock as well as the 512Mb variant.

*EDIT* 8800GT 1Gb slower than 512Mb in Crysis

 

[bloodline76]

Do you actually expect them to go hunting down that exact item and telling you specifically what is wrong with it? That would take far too many man hours with people asking all the time

It wouldnt take much time to note down faults or missing parts for components that come back if they were organised. Then just mark them up. Sounds straight forward to me and would give the customer a better understanding of what they are buying.

 

[Biohazard]

Otherwise get the £159 GT 512Mb. I'd even say 1Gb is slower since the mem won't overclock as well as the 512Mb variant.

Thats a fair point also.

 

[jambus]

honestly no point getting it. It's simply a marketing scheme where they believe people are gonna flog there hard earned out just because it suddenly has twice as much RAM, which it doesn't utilize anyway, which has been proven by poor benchmarking.

 

[Amonlym]

also dont forget, if your on a 32 bit os, having 1gb of graphics ram will eat even further into the available mem space. SLI 1 gb gfx cards + xp 32bit + 4 gig installed ram = less than 2 gig useable system ram.

 

[willhub]

How will more graphics ram be used in 32bit if the game is 32bit too? Why will it be less than 2 gig? As far as I know you dont loose ram for GPU memory

 

[platinum87]

And that doesnt make it go faster?

more traction

 

[Kmodo]

I'm not convinced, however if they were the same price ofc I would pick the one with the larger memory

 

[opet616]

What he said.

Its not going to touch the 8800GTX due to having 2/3 of the memory bandwidth, it just won't be able to use the gig effectively.





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Yes. It's just like the 512mb version of the 8600 - which is useless since it only has a 128bit bus.

 

[Bossk128]

How will more graphics ram be used in 32bit if the game is 32bit too? Why will it be less than 2 gig? As far as I know you dont loose ram for GPU memory

In a 32-bit OS, which can only address 4Gb in total, you lose the equivalent system memory from your 4Gb (if you have it....) that you have in all other devices (usually graphics cards, but I think Audigy X-RAM counts too).

e.g.

4Gb system RAM, 512Mb GFX card = ~3.5Gb systrem ram to Windows XP 32-bit

2Gb system RAM, 1Gb GFX card = still 2Gb RAM to 32-bit OS

4Gb system RAM, on board Intel card lol = ~3998 Mb RAM to 32-bit OS

4Gb system RAM, dual 1Gb GFX cards in SLI = 4Gb system RAM to 64-bit OS.

 

[willhub]

Well actually in XP 32 the reason I have 3.5Gb ram available is because to see the full 4GB you need a 64bit OS.

And in Vista 32 I'm sure I had 4GB ram yet I have a 512mb card.

32Bit only addresses something like 3.5Gb.

 

[Gerard]

Near sure ive read in some reviews of the 512mb varient that the only thing holding the gt back from being faster is the frame buffer, surely 1 gig would be an improvement?

 

[willhub]

Near sure ive read in some reviews of the 512mb varient that the only thing holding the gt back from being faster is the frame buffer, surely 1 gig would be an improvement?

Looking at the benchmarks it does not appear to.