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8800GT to GTX 260 216sp?

I think it would be a worthwhile upgrade for you, the extra bandwidth on the 260 compared to the 8800 series makes a lot of difference at your resolution. To go one step higher again costs a lot more money so for "bang for buck" increase the 260 would be great.
 
you'll get 5-10% more FPS for 55% more cash even stepping up to the 275. If you went for the 285, you're looking at 20-25% more fps for 100% more cash.
 
zytok said:
you'll get 5-10% more FPS for 55% more cash even stepping up to the 275. If you went for the 285, you're looking at 20-25% more fps for 100% more cash.
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In my experience it isnt the outright max fps that makes this improvment worthwhile, It's the improvment in MIN fps that makes this card run a lot lot smoother than the 8800 series. also as I have said before you can run a lot more AA and AF filters withe the 260 series. I did this swap myself all be it at a slightly higher res and I found the difference well and truly worth it
 
widdyst said:
In my experience it isnt the outright max fps that makes this improvment worthwhile, It's the improvment in MIN fps that makes this card run a lot lot smoother than the 8800 series. also as I have said before you can run a lot more AA and AF filters withe the 260 series. I did this swap myself all be it at a slightly higher res and I found the difference well and truly worth it
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sorry, didn't make myself clear, I was trying to say that the 260 is all he needs and that there is no point going any higher... Would defo recommend the 260 over the 8800.
 
If you are someone like myself who does not play games on a PC but uses his PC for Multimedia and especially Adobe Photoshop work the the added CUDA design will enhance the use of the graphics card.
Not every small upgrade is a big loss. CS4 makes use of the OpenGL interface on the Nvidia interface. It also works with the latest ATI cards employing Shader model 3 and above. So there has never been a better time to be a Photographer or a Graphic artist.
 
I made the same upgrade but with a couple of added steps, 8800GT SLI and the 192sp model of the GTX260. Which made it perfect for evaluating how good the move was. The 8800GT SLI setup was slightly faster but the 260 provided a better gaming experience (Except in Crysis and Crysis warhead which just seemed to FLY on the SLI rig). Slightly better minimum framerates with less spikes, generally more consistent across the board.

So compared to a single 8800GT the 216sp GTX260 provided a welcome boost in a lot of the games I play. However I think the 8800GT still holds up a lot better than some here would like to admit, even at 1920 x 1200!

If you want an easy visual for how large the upgrade was (I seem to recall anyway) run Vantage on your single 8800GT and then again on your GTX260. The opening scene framerates should be enough to convince you!
 
8800GT is still a great card, very smooth gaming upto 1680x res and acceptable in some games at 1920x, tho if you like max quality and atleast 4x FSAA it doesn't quite cut it at 1920+ resolutions all the time (min fps is gonna be below acceptable even tho average and max are ok).

I went 8800GT->8800GT SLI and I would have stuck with the 8800GT SLI performance wise only I ran into VRAM limitations so I upgraded to a 260 maxcore and its deffinatly smoother overall than the 8800GT SLI but performance is very slightly slower, then I upgraded to 2048x res display so I put another 260GTX in for SLI (cost me less than a 28x card for 60-70% more performance).
 
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