cheapest 8800 or the 7950GX2?

bimmerboii · 13 Nov 2006 at 00:51

A mate of mine is building his new pc. Unfortunately he cant post here so he asked me to post for him.

He's got a maximum budget of £350 and he's a bit of an Nvidia fan. with his money, I can push him a bit more to get the Leadtek GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB for £370.11 or the EVGA GeForce 7950 GX2 1024MB for the same price.

Which one of the two should i recommend to him?

Thanks in advance!

Rroff · 13 Nov 2006 at 00:53

8800... 7950GX2 is a good card but no point buying it if you (he) can afford an 8800.

fornowagain · 13 Nov 2006 at 01:00

The GTS overclocks well, keeps up with a GX2.

trojan698 · 13 Nov 2006 at 01:02

Where in the world... the-G-T-S, yeah!

fornowagain · 13 Nov 2006 at 01:09

trojan698 said:
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Id take that down if I were you, recently you can't even post indications of price.

trojan698 · 13 Nov 2006 at 01:32

really? BB is watching you! cheers for the heads up.

silversurfer · 13 Nov 2006 at 01:53

I know dx isnt a factor yet but it'd be silly not to buy the 8800 if you can. Obviously nvidia agrees as they have stopped making the gx2

bimmerboii · 13 Nov 2006 at 09:58

fornowagain said:
The GTS overclocks well, keeps up with a GX2.

you mean to say that the GX2 is better than the GTS?

Also, how about the Sapphire ATI Radeon X1950 XT-X TOXIC Slave Edition 512MB GDDR4? it seems to be in the same price range

melbourne720 · 13 Nov 2006 at 10:08

GTS definitely - why would anyone get a gx2 when it is the same price as 8800 cards?

trojan698 · 13 Nov 2006 at 10:09

Ati's offerring doesn't compete with these cards unfortunately. I'd go for the GTS, especially with DX10 just round the corner

ernysmuntz · 13 Nov 2006 at 10:24

Would be madness to pay £370 for a GX2 at this point, pure insanity.

The 8800GTS can be had for a lot than this if you shop around, and is a far better card. It might lose in some benchmark tests but thats not really the point, its a single card, so you've got no SLI compatability nonsense going on.

All your games will play well, not just ones optimised for SLI.

They supposedly overclock quite well too.

Do not buy a GX2, of all the graphics cards its got to be the worst one to get right now, I'm sure give it a few weeks and this card will be sold for peanuts, since it doesn't really have a place in nvidias lineup anymore.

bimmerboii · 13 Nov 2006 at 11:38

ok so i would definitely tell him to go for the 8800 gts

another thing.. the item description says "Finally 500W minimum for PSU and 600W+ is recommended."

My friend's cpu case is the antec tx1088 amg comes with 480 Watt TruePower 2.0 power supply. Is this not enough to power the 8800 or a psu upgrade needs to be done?

trojan698 · 13 Nov 2006 at 11:40

It should be fine imo

J.D · 13 Nov 2006 at 12:12

fornowagain said:
Id take that down if I were you, recently you can't even post indications of price.

It's a bit pathetic. If OCuk have the best prices and they want us all to shop with them over the competitors then why worry about who is selling what at said price as OCuk should beat them, right???. :rolleyes:

I understand why in some points but not as much in others.

ernysmuntz · 13 Nov 2006 at 12:34

The nature of the question means that a rough guide to prices has to be give, I'm just saying the GTS is cheaper than the GX2 anyway, to not say this would just be nasty, im not going to knowingly give dodgy info!!!

J.D · 13 Nov 2006 at 12:52

ernysmuntz said:
The nature of the question means that a rough guide to prices has to be give, I'm just saying the GTS is cheaper than the GX2 anyway, to not say this would just be nasty, im not going to knowingly give dodgy info!!!

Well it's a commendable service you've provided and will be appreciated.

I just hope the strictness comes down a notch. Thats why I hardly post. I've been trolling these forums for ages before I registered.

I accidentally made my sig over the size yesterday and got the message if that I don't change it that I could be banned. OTT as it was an accident. :mad:

fornowagain · 13 Nov 2006 at 14:16

J.D said:
It's a bit pathetic. If OCuk have the best prices and they want us all to shop with them over the competitors then why worry about who is selling what at said price as OCuk should beat them, right???. I understand why in some points but not as much in others.

I agree. But I'll still warn someone when they do it, hate to see someone banned cos no one told them. At the moment any reference to lower prices just brings down the Sword of Damocles.

gadget^ · 13 Nov 2006 at 15:46

i have 2 x 7950 GX2 - quad sli - just posted asking the question about swapping over to the 8800

for me i'd but the new and best i can afford - as for upgrading no point right now nothing out there to up my current spec

dale1uk · 13 Nov 2006 at 16:53

gadget^ said:
as for upgrading no point right now nothing out there to up my current spec

Hmm, sure sli'd 8800gtx's would beat your quad sli'd 7950gtx's

LoadsaMoney · 13 Nov 2006 at 17:01

It would do as Quad SLi doesn't work, even 2x x1950's in crossfire whoop Quad.