320 or 640 8800

[chrispystix]

What is the benefit if going for a 640mb over a 320 mb 8800gts GPU. I am looking at a 19'' monitor for games and movies.

Also BFG asus or ocuk home brand??

Finally, cooling. big case and a good fan enough?

Cheers

 

[Paul11]

640 is more for higher res monitors.

for 19" id say you were fine with 320....

 

[Will_3rd]

as above the 320mb should be fine, the BFG comes with a lifetime warranty and the OCUK own brand 1 year afaik, cooling should not be a problem.

 

[smit101]

What is the benefit if going for a 640mb over a 320 mb 8800gts GPU. I am looking at a 19'' monitor for games and movies.

Also BFG asus or ocuk home brand??

Finally, cooling. big case and a good fan enough?

Cheers

The 640 version comes into its own when gaming at higher resoultions (16x1200+).

I'm assuming your monitor runs at 1280x1024,if so the 320MB version will easily give you plenty of headroom to run your games at max settings with AA and AF.

I'm running the evga oc 320MB version,currently running it on the stock cooler,it's virtually silent and It runs perfectly at 630/2000.

Over 12000 in 3dMark 06 and over 18000 in 05,not bad for a £200 card.

 

[chrispystix]

ok thats making sense....

now, OC or OC2......seems a slightly higher spec on the OC2. In the real world??

 

[BlastRadius]

Save money and get the OC. Only difference is a very small clock speed bump which you can do yourself. Some people argue the OC2 have been "binned" higher but I personally have never found that to be the case.

 

[wellibob]

what is the 320 meg like at 1680 x 1050 res ??

 

[RussZS]

I have the BFG OC 320MB version, and it runs all current games on max settings at 1600x1200 for me...

That said, I am looking at the 24" Dell now, and fear that I won't be able to continue on Max settings on Crysis...

If not, hopefully GTX will be down to <£300 by July.

 

[Marky]

I have an 19" with the 8800 GTS 320 and it runs great!

 

[jrodga2k5]

OCUK one comes with a 3 year warranty which imo is more than enough! The company who does the cards is Point of Veiw!

 

[Hamoodii]

pretty much down to what resolution you run at mate

320mb should be fine for resolutions up to 1600x1200

 

[Rroff]

RANT

The memory difference isn't just about resolution... if you plan to play the few games with ultra/high settings that use lots of high res textures (typically using 400+megs of texture data) and want some future proofing against newer games which are going to use progressively more texture and mesh data, etc. then you want the 640Mb card...

If you are happy to play games in medium to high settings, or can get away with texture compression in the games you play - then the 320Mb card will be fine.

/RANT

Try running oblivion with the 4096x texture packs (I assure you it makes quite a difference visually) and the other high res artwork and models on a 320Mb 8800 and it will cry - even tho the core is upto it - whereas the 640Mb version will handle it no hassle...