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8800GT for gaming

JonJ678

JonJ678

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It's overclocked, but I fear may be rather inadequate. Considering getting into pc gaming for the first time, and aside from peripherals I believe this to be the biggest issue with my computer.

What's an 8800GT capable of? Usefully I don't know what games I'll be playing yet. COD4 is likely, as is l4d. 1680x1050 resolution.

If the card is inadequate, how will two of them fare?
 
Hey JonJ678, the Geforce 8800GT is an excellent entry-level gaming card. I've used one at 1280x1024 for playing Crysis/High and 1920x1200 for playing Team-Fortress 2, Portal, COD4 etc

If you load all the latest games and run at 1680x1050 with all the eye-candy switched to max then your gonna have problems but with a little tweaking of the various graphic options the 8800GT will perform well! :cool:

Certainly good enough to let you dip your toes into some light gaming before the next wave of GPU's arrive! ;)
 
This sounds good to me. I'm quite happy turning down the beautifying options, since I still think the N64 graphics are rather good. That it can run cod4 at higher res than I have is excellent news.

I don't think I'll be jumping on the next wave, more likely to accumulate increasing numbers of 8800gt I think. Would sli perform significantly better?
 
The 8800gt is a very decent card jon, 2 in sli would be even better, theyre pretty cheap now on auction sites etc, a single card would cope well at 1680x1050, i used the 512mb gts which was very slightly better than the 8800gt and im on 1920x1200 resolution, cod4 is a very scaleable game, and very good, it runs extremely well on a wide range of hardware, for example my workmate plays against me on an e6400 @3ghz with two 7300gt's in sli (it aint pretty but hes ok to play it) and it runs fairly smooth, tbh the only games ive found that push any modern rig are crysis and arma2.
 
Yeah the speedup from two cards in games that support it can be rather good, only downside being more heat and power used (££).

We were all freaking out in October 2007 when the nVidia released the G92 8800GT, it seems to perform better than the king of the hill 8800GTX which caused confusion as the 8800GT was a cheaper part. It turned out that although the 8800GT was actually faster in a lot of games at normal resolution the 8800GTX clawed back some FPS when running at high res 1920x1200 etc due to the extra memory and extra memory bandwidth.

I been using a second-hand 8800GT for a few months now as a stop gap card and it still handles games well. It's certainly not a GTX260, GTX275 etc but for you it sounds ideal! :cool:

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I like my 8800GT!
 
Nice gpuz shot, mines at 725 core but wont run folding stable at 750. Might do now it's less hot. But then its under water.

The affection for it is more being able to use quadro drivers with it than anything else, and this is why I'll probably get a second. 860W psu here (don't ask) so that's not an issue, and electricity is included in my weekly rent. So alls good, just need to find a second hand one with an ek block and I'm good to go

Did you by any chance sell your normal card, then start using this one while you wait for the next generation of graphics cards?

Cheers again for the good news :)
 
I had one originally at launch in 2007 and then a few weeks later the word got out and the price went from £150 > £200 so I sold it for ferengi profit! ;)

Been on Radeons mostly since then with a 6-months stretch running soley on onboard graphics (Intel® GMA X4500HD). I got back a little into folding@home and saw that nVidia were the best, I also heard WJA96 getting very excited about CUDA so I was curious to give it a look, hit the OcUK members market and picked up a Palit 8800GT 512MB and was impressed by its GPGPU performance at folding and Video transcoding.

Having been using an IGP for gaming the 8800GT was like a Quad-SLI setup in comparison! :p
 
The 8800gt is a very decent card, a while back my nephews old 7800gtx died and he needed a card quickly, he works part time repairing pc's and his boss had an 8800gt going spare which he gave to him, he games quite a lot at 1680x1050 and the difference from the old gtx was like night and day.
 
I am using a BFG 8800GT at the moment and i can play COD4 and nearly any new game at a higher res of 1900x1080 no problem at all
 
The 8800GT is a great little card!

I managed to play Crysis with most things on high at 1680x1050, and it was smoothe as butter :P, with a stock Q6600 as well.

It should be able to run most games on high no problem
 
Yeah still great little cards... I used to run 2x 8800GT in SLI and it demolished everything... if your running resolutions upto 1680x you can still pretty much max out the graphic settings and get great fps, but it starts to struggle at 1920x and you might have to turn some stuff down... I still use a couple of them (split my SLI) in workstation PCs that get used for the odd bit of gaming - infact they still cope quite admirably on my 2048x displays that I use for programming, etc.
 
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