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Who's downgraded?

Tom|Nbk

Tom|Nbk

Tom|Nbk

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I know the whole 8800GT thing is a bit old now but since It's pretty dead atm on the games front (I'm only playing BF2 & TF2 atm and don't need a GTX for that) and due to me using my pc less and less atm. I have decided to downgrade to an 8800GT and use this as a cheap stop gap.

Got my GTX up on the bay and managed to fetch £195 which was pretty good going. Posted off the GTX today and my GT arrived today, great timing!

Managed to pocket £65 from the downgrade to go towards the next gen fund for whatever is the next big show stopper card.

Went for the uber cheap POV card which comes with the bare essentials but who cares it's all the same PCB.

8800GTX & GT side by side (GT is actually bigger than I expected)

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GT in = :D

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Done a quick run in TF2 and the GT is barely slower at all infact almost the same sort of FPS @ 1680x1050 16xAA,AF. Very pleased with my purchase. Anyone else done something similar in anticipation for the better cards later this year or purely because the games you play don't require massive power or maybe like me you don't use your rig as much anymore?
 
Just started to clock her up

got to 700/2000/1500 (Will touch shader later on)

It's keeping @ 71c load

What a cracker of a card!

Just testing for artifacts, aiming to find the max clocks tonight.
 
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I've managed to get 710|1700|2200 on the stock bios. 30 mins ATi Tool stable

Seems like a good clocker especially the memory, this is without doing the bios hack.

Will prob do the bios hack over the weekend to really see what she's made of. Now I've found max clocks on the stock bios I'm off to play a few games :p
 
easyrider said:
£65 Towards new gen is nothing. lol

I would have just kept the the GTX if selling now in todays current market.

Upgrades should either bag you money so upgrading to next gen cost very little.

Thats easyriders way :D
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If £65 is nothing then why are you telling me I should have sold when I could have got £50 more for my GTX. :confused:

Strange little man ;)
 
Athanor said:
Eh? Then why bother trading it in to save £65? With no real replacement in terms of raw power and memory bandwidth on the horizon your GTX would only have proved to be better and better compared to other cards, especially if you ever plan on going to 24". /shrug
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Erm because circumstances change?

I won't be going 24" if I don't use my rig much now why would I consider a 24", if I do get a 24" it will be when the new cards come.

The GT comes very close and sometimes matches my GTX overclocked at my res and I have £65 in beer tokens. I only use my rig at weekends for gaming as that is the only time I cba/have time for gaming. I'm happy with my decision.

Athanor said:
Don't get me wrong, I doubt i'd buy one brand new now if I was upgrading from say AGP, unless it was a stonking deal, but to trade one in you've already taken a hit on the price for seems an odd decision given you don't regard the money you saved as particularly significant.
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Who said I don't regard the money saved as sigificant?

I'm very chuffed with the saving as it is more money to go on petrol/beer

It sounds like you think your reasoning for keeping the GTX would apply to me when it obviously doesn't.
 
Athanor said:
You did....
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Doesn't mean I'll not take the cash if offered. I put my GTX up someone offered the cash and I had the oppourtunity to take it and walk away with a bit of cash in my back pocket yea the money isn't a lot maybe but I barely use my rig for gaming these days therefore it was worth it this time where it wasn't worth selling my GTX when Easy said so a good few months back..
 
easyrider said:
Just read post 31


Missed the true ethic of the easy shuffle.

lol
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If everyone followed the way you work the world would become a very strange place fast.

I change hardware depending on my needs. I've released some tied up cash in un used hardware as my needs have changed.
 
Easy quit being a weirdo for once,

I didn't justify the 65 for next gen upgrades but merely said it may be put towards that and if so what is the problem with that?

I didn't downgrade for a gain. The clue is in the name 'downgrade' I don't play many games anymore, the main few being TF2 and BF2 which I have actually noticed no loss in performance, at least nothing noticeable and have walked away with some freed up cash.

I paid less for the 8800GT than it is is here at OcUK.
 
Well that's great for you Tute, but I couldn't justify having a Ultra end card, I play TF2 and BF2 both of which fly along on the same level as my GTX did, or near enough.

No point keeping top end hardware if it's unused. I thought this was obvious
 
Athanor said:
Just seems like a lot of time and effort,
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It didn't take any time and effort other than the five minutes to create the Ebay Ad :confused:

Athanor said:
especially if you take into account you may have saved £65 now, but your new GT is likely to sell for less than your GTX would have done when you trade it in reducing the saving.
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The GT and GTX both depreciate at the same speed, they certainly have thus far - it's all relative. I'll end up no worse off but instead - freeing some cash early like I have done. Freeing up cash is the price I have paid but I think if I don't use stuff may aswell free up the tied cash to put on something I DO need right now.

Athanor said:
Given the spec of the rest of your machine it seems an odd decision at this point to go for lower performance for a saving of what in the end could be £20-£30 towards a new card that's likely to be £300+ /shrug
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Lower performance in my case being 5 no 10 fps at the most. The performance loss really is negligable at this point, I expect that gap to close once I volt mod and I'll still be £65 better off.

Athanor said:
The only time it might have made more sense was back when the GTX still commanded a premium second hand price.
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So long as I pocketed cash from the GT downgrade it made sense to me :)

Athanor said:
Either way if you're happy and you have a good use for the cash you saved then great although tbh it sounds like you started the thread looking for reassurance you did the right thing.
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Lol!

Totally not the case it seems you're trying to push the reasons you've kept your GTX on to me and thinking it may apply in my circumstances when it doesn't.
 
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Any excuse to try and get one up Easy.

No one cares Easy. Your credibility is lost in these parts as evident from peoples attitudes towards you. You seem to bring it on yourself from your constant pointless trolling in order to try and better yourself above everyone else, I've told you the reasoning behind my downgrade so how about listening to someone else for once instead of yourself in the mirror?

You are infact Old news my friend.

You know where the door is
 
My main reason was not to wait for next gen but infact to free up cash for stuff I do need at the moment

I don't need the GTX but I did need a decentish GPU. The 8800 was the best comprimise whilst freeing up cash. What part don't you get?. Infact no I'm not wasting anymore time with you. It's the same old story
 
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