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8800GTX vs GTX 260

TheSwede

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Presently I have a 8800GTX, but thinking maybe to upgrade it.. question is though, would it be a significant difference between the two card? Tried to find a comparison between the two cards but my google skills aren't that good. :(

Have seen a 2nd hand GTX 260 for around £100, think it sounds like a good price, seller saying he only had them for a few months. But not sure if it is worth it?

Usually I use my PC to watch TV/Movies, play games such as AoE III, Civ4, SimCity4, CivCity Rome and similar games, and of course browse OcUK (:p) and the rest of the Net..

Any and all suggestions/advice are as always, really appreciated! :)
 
Hmmm, I traded up from a 640mb GTS (BFG, OC'd to GTX speeds) last month to a GTX260 and frankly I was a bit disappointed. I'd guess on a 25% to 50% improvement in frame rates on average.

TBH, given the chance again I probably wouldn't have bothered (esp as my old card only raised £40). At least not without a CPU upgrade as well because I suspect my E6600 is partly responsible for the less than stellar increases that jumping 2 generations should have brought...
 
Thank you for your replies guys! And yes, just had a look round in the MM and it seems like they been going for around £80. Would you say that is about right then? Not sure if he would accept such offer, but hey, you never know unless you ask! (That is if it is around the right price class for a 2nd GTX260?)
 
Khrest said:
Hmmm, I traded up from a 640mb GTS (BFG, OC'd to GTX speeds) last month to a GTX260 and frankly I was a bit disappointed. I'd guess on a 25% to 50% improvement in frame rates on average.

TBH, given the chance again I probably wouldn't have bothered (esp as my old card only raised £40). At least not without a CPU upgrade as well because I suspect my E6600 is partly responsible for the less than stellar increases that jumping 2 generations should have brought...
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One generation, the 9 series doesn't really count as it was pretty much identical to the 8 series, most were identical even on the same manufacturing process.

Same way the HD 2- HD 3 barely counts, though there was a die shrink and price drop involved. :rolleyes:
 
Khrest said:
Hmmm, I traded up from a 640mb GTS (BFG, OC'd to GTX speeds) last month to a GTX260 and frankly I was a bit disappointed. I'd guess on a 25% to 50% improvement in frame rates on average.

TBH, given the chance again I probably wouldn't have bothered (esp as my old card only raised £40). At least not without a CPU upgrade as well because I suspect my E6600 is partly responsible for the less than stellar increases that jumping 2 generations should have brought...
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Something not right there....

My GTX 275 is almost twice the speed of my 8800gtx

Just looked up some benchmarks

Res evil 5
8800GTX = 27
GTX 260 = 45
GTX 275 = 52

Crysis
8800GTX = 24
GTX 260 = 37
GTX 275 = 43

COD4
8800GTX = 58
GTX 260 = 84
GTX 275 = 94
 
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Khrest said:
Hmmm, I traded up from a 640mb GTS (BFG, OC'd to GTX speeds) last month to a GTX260 and frankly I was a bit disappointed. I'd guess on a 25% to 50% improvement in frame rates on average.

TBH, given the chance again I probably wouldn't have bothered (esp as my old card only raised £40). At least not without a CPU upgrade as well because I suspect my E6600 is partly responsible for the less than stellar increases that jumping 2 generations should have brought...
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As mentioned previous must be something wrong with your setup - or your playing at very low res... E6600 at stock would be a slight bottleneck but only very minor.

I upgraded from 2x heavily overclocked 8800GT in SLI - each of which were faster than a stock 8800GTX - to a single 260GTX due to needing the extra VRAM and it was only slightly slower than the SLI setup - so minimum 65-70% faster than a single card.
 
Thank for all you replies guys!

If I am understanding things correctly, if I buy a GTX260 it would be a minimum 65-70% increase in speed compared with my 8800GTX, is that correct? (Sowee for being such a n00b! :o) Ohh and I have a E6750 at stock, if that matters?

Also, would around £80 be a decent offer for a 2nd hand?
 
£80 is right for a 216sp gtx260, the 192 sp needs to be less.

Oh and the gtx260 overclock very well and gives you gtx285 performance. From memory I had my gtx260 at 730/1596/2300 on air.

And yes 65-70% would be the improvement. Not a bad cheap upgrade when you factor in what you will get for your 8800gtx.
 
Thanks Greebo!

It is this GTX260... Linky, now this is probably a very n00bish question but when I visit the website it reminded me that it says that the card has PCI Express 2.0 GPU. So I am wondering will it still work on my mobo? I have a Gigabyte P35C-DS3R.
 
TheSwede said:
Thank you reflux! *pondering off to make an offer....*
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*which wasn't accepted....*

So my question now is if I would be looking at a 2nd hand card, would a GTX260 216SP be the best 2nd hand to look for? (That wont break the bank I mean) What I have read a GTX250 is not really worth it, or is it?

Also, what GPU's from ATI would you guys recommend? TheRealDeal suggested a 4890, which in his opinion is faster then a GTX260 and around £80-85, which is the highest I think I will be going, if I would do an upgrade. Never used ATI card's before though, so is there much diferenc beetween nVidia and ATI GPU's?
 
Sorry for bumping an "oldish" thread, but thought it was better then creating a new one!

I just bought myself a Powercolor 4890 1GB PCS+ card, will come with the drivers on a disc but thought I would download the newest drivers right away so I have them ready when the GPU arrives. Now, when I go to ATI website it has several options. Should I just download the drivers or should I download the whole suite?

Actually looking a bit closer I guess all I need is the drivers and maybe the Catalyst Control Center? Would you recommend that I download the CCC as well?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated now, since I never had a ATI card before, so will be a first for me! :eek:

Edit: Ohh and if one of these "power calculators" that you can find online isn't wrong I should still be ok with my Corsair HX Series 520W Modular PSU with this card, right? Have this presentlöy in my PC..

6 HDD's
ASUS Sonar D2
1 DVD Writer
1 Blue-Ray & HD DVD Drive
1 Floppy
(8800GTX)
 
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