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9800 GTX Reviews

Skeeter said:
If you have a GTS, why would you buy a GTX to SLI with anyway? just buy another GTS....

Your request comes down to "can I buy 2 8800GTS's and SLI them and throw £50 into the bin?"
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You've wasted enough money buying just one nvidia card, let alone 2:)

From a 3870xt owner:p
 
J.D said:
Just flash the BIOS with 9800GTX BIOS and sell it on as a new GTX :D.

Getting rid of the X2?.
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Yeah, X2 is a great card, but the rest of my rig is silent and the X2 stood out like a sore thumb, and with no 3rd party coolers anywhere near I have decided to go back to a GTS and wait it out til Jun/July when the GT200/RV770 appear and i'll grab one of those.

As for why i've had so many 8800's:

1st - 8800GTS 640MB - Bought on release because the GTX was so massivly expensive and at the time the GTS easily cut through everything.

2nd - 8800GTX 768MB - Bought 2nd hand for a great price at the time and served me well

3rd - 8800GTX 768MB - 8800GTS came out, prices started to dive on the GTX's, so I sold my previous GTX for a good price, then waited a week and bought annother for far cheaper = profit :D

4th - 8800GTS 512MB - Had sold my GTX in preparation of getting a 3870X2, but after initial reviews came in saying it was loud and the first benchies didn't look all that good I grabbed a cheap 8800GTS instead with the intention of skipping the X2 all together, however new drivers came out, the card picked up considerably, so I thought i'd take a risk on it knowing that the rest of my rig was damn quiet... the X2 was great, performance wise no fault, but the cooler design imho really let the card down, if only they had fitted a quieter fan and used heatpiped sinks instead of just blocks, so I sold it on without any real plan of what I wanted next.

5th - 8800GTS 512MB - Just ordered this, should arive tommorow, I plan on clocking the nuts off it and waiting to see what the propper next gen bring.


TBH looking back, if I had known then what I know now I would have just stuck with my first GTX.

But meh, you live and learn, and I wouldn't have had the fun of trying out all these new cards :D
 
Well done to Nvidia, their April fools joke (the 9800GTX) seemed to have got everybody.


It had to be a joke, their couldn't be any other explanation really.
 
HeX said:
4th - 8800GTS 512MB - Had sold my GTX in preparation of getting a 3870X2, but after initial reviews came in saying it was loud and the first benchies didn't look all that good I grabbed a cheap 8800GTS instead with the intention of skipping the X2 all together, however new drivers came out, the card picked up considerably, so I thought i'd take a risk on it knowing that the rest of my rig was damn quiet... the X2 was great, performance wise no fault, but the cooler design imho really let the card down, if only they had fitted a quieter fan and used heatpiped sinks instead of just blocks, so I sold it on without any real plan of what I wanted next.

5th - 8800GTS 512MB - Just ordered this, should arive tommorow, I plan on clocking the nuts off it and waiting to see what the propper next gen bring.
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Why not just get an accelero S1 for £20 then you have a powerful and quiet card? Rather than selling that just so you can get another BFG that uses the same reference cooler :confused:
 
lozzick said:
wait, why on earth are you buying so many. You're going from 3870x2 to 512 GTS :(. I don't know how many of you know about him but maxishine went from

SLI GTX's > SLI Ultra's> TRI Ultra's> Quad 9800Gx2s !

Some people really are crazy days.
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Maxishine has something seriously wrong with his head, imo he just gets all this crap to make vids and post it on youtube for some kind of e-peen extension.
 
steve258 said:
Why not just get an accelero S1 for £20 then you have a powerful and quiet card? Rather than selling that just so you can get another BFG that uses the same reference cooler :confused:
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You missunderstand.

Between the GTS's there was a 3870X2, the 3870X2 was the card that was too loud for my tastes.
 
HeX said:
Yeah, X2 is a great card, but the rest of my rig is silent and the X2 stood out like a sore thumb, and with no 3rd party coolers anywhere near I have decided to go back to a GTS and wait it out til Jun/July when the GT200/RV770 appear and i'll grab one of those.

As for why i've had so many 8800's:

1st - 8800GTS 640MB - Bought on release because the GTX was so massivly expensive and at the time the GTS easily cut through everything.

2nd - 8800GTX 768MB - Bought 2nd hand for a great price at the time and served me well

3rd - 8800GTX 768MB - 8800GTS came out, prices started to dive on the GTX's, so I sold my previous GTX for a good price, then waited a week and bought annother for far cheaper = profit :D

4th - 8800GTS 512MB - Had sold my GTX in preparation of getting a 3870X2, but after initial reviews came in saying it was loud and the first benchies didn't look all that good I grabbed a cheap 8800GTS instead with the intention of skipping the X2 all together, however new drivers came out, the card picked up considerably, so I thought i'd take a risk on it knowing that the rest of my rig was damn quiet... the X2 was great, performance wise no fault, but the cooler design imho really let the card down, if only they had fitted a quieter fan and used heatpiped sinks instead of just blocks, so I sold it on without any real plan of what I wanted next.

5th - 8800GTS 512MB - Just ordered this, should arive tommorow, I plan on clocking the nuts off it and waiting to see what the propper next gen bring.


TBH looking back, if I had known then what I know now I would have just stuck with my first GTX.

But meh, you live and learn, and I wouldn't have had the fun of trying out all these new cards :D
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LMAO :D What a journey. Well even though the GTX would have done you from start to finish you at least have knowledge about all these cards and with you being a regular on these forums it can only help other people with problems and your knowledge.

I'm thinking about getting the X2 myself. Still not sure. GTX plays everything well but has problems with Call of Duty1 and I play it quite frequently still (community of us that all play it). 8800GTS 640mb/512mb, 8800GT, 8600GTS/GT all have the same problem in CoD1. I might just wait though. I have a 2900Pro that overclocks 850Mhz core and 1000Mhz (2000Mhz) memory and that plays CoD1 perfectly lol. Just a hassle switching cards for me although I don't mind and have done so a few times already.

Well I hope you enjoy your 9800GTX 2moro :p. I hope you overclock the snot out of it and then see how your GPU serves next to a similarly overclocked 9800GTX. That is the thing I'm looking forward to the most.
 
I have to say those overclocks are wild, 2500 on the memory is insane no matter how you put it, my GTS won't do anything over 2K, plus that core clock is higher than my GTS too. So basically if money is no concern this does have some merit, still hate Nvidia for not bringing out some proper new tech though.
 
It's interesting to see that the little ol' 8800GTS I bought is going to last significantly longer than I originally expected and I got it new for the nice price of £150. Seems it will have at least another 6 months on it. Nvidia need to buck up their game!!!
 
Interestingly, this also means that the 3870 X2 is still technically the fastest card on a single piece of PCB. >>
 
Gerard said:
Doesn't matter its still a single pcb and not 2 cards bolted together.
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People don't care.......

Picture this situation:

Retailer: So you're here to collect your 9800GX2?
Customer: Yeah
Retailer: Here you go, enjoy your cards!
Customer: Wait, there are two graphics cards in there?
Retailer: No, just two boards assembled together into one unit which fits into one PCIE slot
Customer: Okay, why do I care?
Retailer: Because Gerard thinks it matters.
 
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Shocky-FM said:
People don't care.......

Picture this situation:

Bestbuy: So you're here to collect your 9800GX2?
Customer: Yeah
Bestbuy: Here you go, enjoy your cards!
Customer: Wait, there are two graphics cards in there?
Bestbuy: No, just two boards assembled together into one unit which fits into one PCIE slot
Customer: Okay, why do I care?
Bestbuy: Because Gerard thinks it matters.
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Considering nvidia couldn't do it, its something that many reviews have noted so they obviously found it worth mentioning. It may not make a difference to overall performance but from a technical stand point its pretty impressive.
 
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Won't be long on XS until someone flashes a 8800 GTS with a 9800 GTX bios.


Asus GeForce 9800 GTX 512MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail

675MHz Core, 512MB 2200MHz GDDR3 Memory, 128 Stream Processors, SLi Ready, 3yr Warranty with Asus.


My old ASUS 8800GTS 512mb was faster than this.

It doesn't deserve the name.

ATI will get my money next time I think.

This is ethically wrong.
 
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9 and X on post-it notes, turn your 8800 GTS 512mb into a fully fledged 9800 GTX, all for an unbelievable £50, (yes a saving of £50+), thats an unbelievable £25 per post-it note!!!




BUY NOW
 
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