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8800gt v 2900pro

The 8800 GT is pretty quiet and will use far less power.

Performance wise you might gain some on AA performance but may loose out without AA. Very much swings and roundabouts. Generally I would imagine you won't see much difference. Its certainly worth changing for the Noise and Power consumption but if they don't concern you I wouldn't bother. The 4850 is the one to look at if your after a change.
 
The 8800gt is a much much better card you goto remember the 8800gt is as good or faster than a 8800gtx and there is no way in the world a 2900xt was even in the same league.

I had a 2900 pro when they came out and clocked it too xt speeds but it was terrible when you applied aa a joke tbh, if you can pick up a cheap 8800gt i would go for it, i been playing grid on mine( got a cracking price for my 4850 and a free 8800gt) at 1920x1200 all on max with 4xaa and its sweet. The only game it really struggles with is crysis but what card doesn't.
 
Jabbs said:
The 8800gt is a much much better card you goto remember the 8800gt is as good or faster than a 8800gtx and there is no way in the world a 2900xt was even in the same league.
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The GT is NOT faster than a GTX. Less SP, less memory and a narrow bus. Must be about 30% slower at higher resolutions and even worse when you start applying AA.
 
The Asgard said:
The 8800 GT is pretty quiet and will use far less power.

Performance wise you might gain some on AA performance but may loose out without AA. Very much swings and roundabouts. Generally I would imagine you won't see much difference. Its certainly worth changing for the Noise and Power consumption but if they don't concern you I wouldn't bother. The 4850 is the one to look at if your after a change.
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I am nit-picking here but isn't the 8800GT faster than a 2900pro/XT in everything regardless of the AA level applied? IIRC it was the older G80GTS models that traded blos with the 2900XT dependant on the level of AA.

I agree on your second point though, the difference whilst there isn't worth the change.
 
oweneades said:
I am nit-picking here but isn't the 8800GT faster than a 2900pro/XT in everything regardless of the AA level applied? IIRC it was the older G80GTS models that traded blos with the 2900XT dependant on the level of AA.

I agree on your second point though, the difference whilst there isn't worth the change.
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From my understanding the 2900 series was pretty fast until you started applying AA. The 3800 series is a low power version of the 2900 series. I have a 3850 and I would say that seems on par with the GT without AA. Certainly not that much in it.
 
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The Asgard said:
From my understanding the 2900 series was pretty fast until you started applying AA. The 3800 series is a low power version of the 2900 series. I have a 3850 and I would say that seems on par with the GT. Certainly not that much in it.
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Sorry I should have put 'in reviews'. I agree in actual gameplay terms there wasn't much in it (both provided amply framerates) however most reviews I read at the time (when the HD3870/8800GT were the cards to get) the 8800GT was always faster.
 
The 8800GT is faster than even a 2900XT is everything with or without AA, don't touch the 2900Pro its awful. The 8800GT was seen to be on par or faster than a GTX at low res such as 1280x1024, at 1680x1050 there was not a massive difference at all between the two.
 
The 8800GT will match within 1% the 8800GTX upto 1920x the GTX only pulls away at higher res/high levels of FSAA. With overclocking the 8800GT is quite a bit faster than a stock GTX.

Neither the 2900 or 3850 are in the same class as the 8800GT even without FSAA... the only place the 2900 ever shone was 3D Marks 06 suicide shots on LN2. It is infact quite a buggy card (hardware wise) especially with DX10 I would avoid it.
 
I have my old 2900PRO flashed to XT in the machine I'm using now with a celeron E1200 @2.66Ghz...... it was going to be a server then I thought I'd try it as a 2nd gaming PC and keep the A64 X2 in the server.

I get > 40fps in the benchmark at 1280 x 1024 so it's hardly a write off.

Back to the OP

The 8800 isn't really a great leap forward, if you can pick up either a 8800GT 512MB or 8800GTS 512MB cheaply second hand then by all means.

The new 9800GTX is basically an 8800GTS 512 overclocked so that's too expensive for little gain.

The 4850 is not a good card and can be clocked nicely if you add a better cooler.

The 2900 wasn't as bad as urban legend continues to propagate... if the green team hadn't had the GTX it would have been the card to have.

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Rroff said:
The 8800GT will match within 1% the 8800GTX upto 1920x the GTX only pulls away at higher res/high levels of FSAA. With overclocking the 8800GT is quite a bit faster than a stock GTX.

Neither the 2900 or 3850 are in the same class as the 8800GT even without FSAA... the only place the 2900 ever shone was 3D Marks 06 suicide shots on LN2. It is infact quite a buggy card (hardware wise) especially with DX10 I would avoid it.
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Surely you're thinking of the 8800GTS 512 which was comparable to the GTX in benchmarks which weren't memory bandwidth limited.

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nope - there were a few games where the extra memory bandwidth/size pulled the GTX ahead but the SPs and shader clock difference wasn't big enough to make a huge performance difference (the GTX has more SPs but they run slower)... i.e. in trackmania benchmarks the GTX would get 40fps and the GT 39. Theres a few cases like COD4 where the fillrate on the GTX helps to pull the minimum fps up above the GT too. But overall theres very little performance difference between them for mainstream gaming.
 
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Main reason is to quieten my 'hoover down' If I get more grunt then the 4850 it will be.

Will there be any issues with my mobo - Gigabyte DS3 rev1

Are there any brands to avoid? Pallit for example!
 
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Surely you're thinking of the 8800GTS 512 which was comparable to the GTX in benchmarks which weren't memory bandwidth limited.

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Actually no he is right. The 8800Gt was sometimes dead even with the 8800GTX. The 8800GTX is the better card. but not by that much tbh.

I'd avise the OP to get the 4850. £20 more for a card which is 20% or more better.

Its what ATi call bang for buck :)
 
Loosly on the same sort of subject...

I've noticed OCUK have an 8800GT for ~50 notes.. paired with a 2.5Ghz Opteron 170 and 2GB DDR550... would a simple setup like that be ok to run 1080p images from a PC though to a HDTV?

Or is the 2900pro the better alternative?
 
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