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A bit confused over the NVIDIA range.

YZFAndy

YZFAndy

YZFAndy

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I’m a bit confused as to what the numbers mean within the NVIDIA range! Bigger numbers use to mean better cards.

What I’m looking at is something along the lines of 7900 7950 or 8600’s. What I don’t get is why are 7900’s going for more than 8600’s where my understanding is the bigger number is better as well as the clock rates look a lot higher on the 8600’s?

To add to my confusion I recently I built a similar system as my computer for the office at work, if not a better spec mother board and bench marked it. It was pretty much the same performance except for the graphics.
My board takes both agp and pcie and with a 6800GT OC AGP in it and this other pc has a 7600GT PCIE, mine had a lot better score.

What card should I be going for, can’t really stretch to a 8800 at the moment?
 
8800 GT, wait till you have the money for the 512 MB one, it offers near to 8800 GTX level of performance.

2900 PRO is a choice but if you are gonna buy something i suggest the 8800 GT

its the best by far in the bang for buck
 
I've gone and done it BFG NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS OC2 320MB. Was planning on getting some Xmas presents this month but :rolleyes:.

What are they like? Got a feeling it won't fit in my case T.Take Soprano?
 
the new 8800gt cards are quite a bit faster than the 320 and even the 640 gts cards, plus theyre round the same price bracket as the gts, btw the gts should fit ok in the soprano as its the same size as the tsunami i have and gts fits fine
 
Ideally I would have the best money could buy but I have to stick with the best I can afford.
The way I look at it I can stick it on evil bay in a few months upgrade and not lose much if anything.
 
YZFAndy said:
Ideally I would have the best money could buy but I have to stick with the best I can afford.
The way I look at it I can stick it on evil bay in a few months upgrade and not lose much if anything.
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i know the feeling just after changing to a 24 inch monitor and now i have to wait and gather funds for a graphics card capable of running it properly, so ill be stuck with the gts for a while as well but, the gts is still a very capable card and copes with pretty much anything, you can always drop details, res etc.
 
You are honestly throwing money away if you buy an 8800GTS 320 now, the 8800GT was just released today (available tomorrow afaik) and it totally destroys the current mid range NVidia range (GTS 320/640) and it costs the same if not slightly less than the 8800GTS 320 series.

It even competes with NVidia's high end 8800 GTX in some software titles so in all honestly its a total bargain.
 
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