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POV 8800GTS 320MB -> BFG 8800GTX 768MB - worth it?

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As the title suggests, been offered a BFG 8800GTX OC 768MB for £90, I can find similar ones on an auction site for maybe £100, question is, would the performance increase be worth it? I have 2 x 19" 4:3 monitors, so only game at 1280x1024 maximum.

Cheers in advance :D
 
Crazy wrong price for an 8800gtx, you can an ultra at that price.

At that res, and for that price, not worth it.

For £60 for the gtx, it's probably worth it.
 
It would be a nice ypgrade but £90 is a bit much to pay for an 8800GTX, they go on MM for £65-£75.

For not much more new you could get a Radeon 4850 or 9800GT, in fact the 9800GTX+ is only £115 on
overclockers :)

But at your res id imagine your GTS should be ok, what games are you struggling with?
 
I'm selling my 9800gtx for that price atm, which is slightly faster than the 8800gtx, and also brand new in plastic packaging.

Really not worth the ££
 
You would be able to slap oodles of AA/AF on, increase texture details, and not have to drop the resolution lower sometimes, as you will have a lot more memory to play with, as 320mb is just not enough, even for that res, but id say the GTX isn't worth that price, as you can get a brand new 9800 GT for only £85. :)
 
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well I just picked up Crysis Warhead and it struggles with that :(

I play L4D with everything maxed out, so I guess I dont need it, but with Empire coming, Dragon Rising in the near future and everything else I thought it might be a decent cheap upgrade...

I guess its probably not worth it then..
 
LoadsaMoney said:
You would be able to slap oodles of AA/AF on, increase texture details, and not have to drop the resolution lower sometimes, as you will have a lot more memory to play with, as 320mb is just not enough, even for that res, but id say the GTX isn't worth that price, as you can get a brand new 9800 GT for only £85. :)
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Agreed.

Basically, almost *any* high end 8xxx or 9xxx card will be enough to max things at that res. Just avoid anything that is x600 or x500 and/or has less than 512MB ram and you should be fine :)

Crysis, however, will chug on almost any system.
 
At that res, I can imagine it destroying most games at max settings, but i agree with the others, £90 is a little too much to pay for a 2nd hand 8800GTX.
 
I think £90 is about right for a card that if it dies (and a lot of them are at the moment), they send you a GTX260 as a warranty replacement.

There are very few cards that will beat an 8800GTX, certainly nothing around the £100 mark new.
 
LoadsaMoney said:
You would be able to slap oodles of AA/AF on, increase texture details, and not have to drop the resolution lower sometimes, as you will have a lot more memory to play with, as 320mb is just not enough, even for that res, but id say the GTX isn't worth that price, as you can get a brand new 9800 GT for only £85. :)
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I'd still take a 2nd hand GTX over a new 9800GT for similar price full stop.

I'd say 80 quid would be a reasonable price for a used GTX tho tbh.
 
God will the 8800GTX never die! :D

As far as I can see there are only two main positives this old veteran has:

  • 768MB Memory
  • 384-bit Memory interface
Now the advantage of having 768MB of memory has erroded away with newer card featuring 1GB+ . . . that just leaves the 384-bit memory interface which obviously will handle the high res + lots of AA better than most 256-bit memory interface, however this memory bandwidth advantage is also being erroded by the fact newer cards are featuring GDDR5 with amazingly fast frequency!

I suppose now the value has decreased below £100 for a used 8800GTX it will hold appeal to some, I'm gonna need to check out some benchmarks to see how the 8800GTX compares to the HD4800 series! :)
 
I'd like to see memory bandwidth compared old to new, I have a fear of low bandwidth ever since owning a bfg 8600gts though it was good otherwise
 
WJA96 said:
I think £90 is about right for a card that if it dies (and a lot of them are at the moment), they send you a GTX260 as a warranty replacement.

There are very few cards that will beat an 8800GTX, certainly nothing around the £100 mark new.
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I hope my one die soon but it is working perfectly even overclocked.

I went from a GTS 320 to a 8800gtx and it was worthy but I play at 1680x1050 and 320MB is not enough.

Regarding crysis, I played it with both cards at high settings at 1680x1050 but with the 320MB used medium settings for shaders and have to lower the settings towards the end of the game.
 
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