Question about 8800 GT cards.

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Kewl Munky

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For christmas I'm going to be getting an 8800 GT card, but I'm not sure which one to pick.

I know for sure I'm getting an EVGA model, but I'm not sure about getting the factory over clocked ones. I've heard they are tested and guaranteed to run without issues, or else you get a new one.

The thing is, I have no solid proof really. I'm hoping it's true because then I might consider getting one.

Another issue I'm worried about is how much extra power they use, and how much extra heat they put off. Because if they put off an incredible amount of extra heat that would defeat the purpose of getting one since that would only slow it down.

Can anyone give me any information?
 
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A GT card is good any way you look at it. The heat can always be taken care of by a fan (case fan or PCI slot fan), which would be highly worth it of course. I've never had a problem with a manufacturer that wouldn't replace a broken part if you simply explained to them the circumstances (except for the XBOX which breaks all the time) as computer part manufacturers are generally nicer about it. Manufacturers know they make defective stuff sometimes.

That said, since you don't sound like you're going to overclock the card manually, and if you really jus wanna have one to say you have an overclocked card, then buy one. The GeForce 8800 GT card is good enough on its own and I don't plan on overclocking it cuz frankly it doesn't need it. But if you decide to buy one that is factory overlocked, manufacturers usually put out products with "heat" taken into consideration, so it shouldn't worry you too much.


A question I have is, since I have a Core 2 Duo E6750, is it a good idea to buy a GeForce 8800GT? Or is the video card just too much power for the CPU, making the CPU a huge bottleneck? Kinda like if I had an old 486 processor, I wouldn't expect to plug in a GeForce GTX and start playing Crysis (slight exageration of course).

Any thoughts?
 
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Well, my case has two 80mm side cool air intakes, a 120mm back fan, and a 80mm top fan. And I have a 120mm fan/heatsink combo over my CPU, so I have a lot of cooling. My card will be sitting right next to my GFX card so I think that could help the heating. The reason why I want a SSC is because I found one on tigerdirect for the same price as a regular one on newegg, so I thought it'd be a good deal. I'd rather have them OC it since they actually know how to do it correctly and know that the card can handle it rather than me try it and **** it up.

As for the 360, they gave free 1year warranty to everyone who has the ring of death. And at least they admit they **** up unlike sony >_> and don't "fix" the issue by releasing a new version of the console that people have to buy.

Anyways, as for your CPU, I don't know much about graphic card compatability with a CPU, but it looks like it could work fine. I don't know what factors to check to see if the card will overpower the CPU, so I can't really help you =/
 
mrbigsexy said:
A question I have is, since I have a Core 2 Duo E6750, is it a good idea to buy a GeForce 8800GT? Or is the video card just too much power for the CPU, making the CPU a huge bottleneck? Kinda like if I had an old 486 processor, I wouldn't expect to plug in a GeForce GTX and start playing Crysis (slight exageration of course).

Any thoughts?
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that would be fine, that cpu is very good.

i have a pentium D 945 and im about to get an 8800 GT, and im not expecting any problems.


in answer to Kewl Munky, i doubt you will have any heat issues, as you have case fans, and yeah... its pretty much up to you whether you get a factory overclocked card, obvisously if the price is much more then dont bother,
but where i am all ther 8800 GTs are out of stock so i dont really care which one it is. and the standard and overclocked versions are pretty much the same price.

so if you arent planning to overlclock and the price is about the same then just go with the factory clocked version. cant hurt to have a bit more power. even though it doesnt need it.
 
So if I understand, you have one video card already?

I see the one SSC on tigerdirect, it is a GTS card though, and is $339. Is that the one you mean?

Also you have PLENTY of fans. I used to run my computer with only a CPU fan and that was enough. So don't worry about the heat issue at all.
 
Well it's certainly a nice card, and if someone will buy it for you for Christmas that would be great. Congratulations! Someday hopefully soon I will get my own card, hehe.

By the way, does anyone know how much 8800GT cards started selling for when they first came on the market recently?
 
I was looking at an ATI with better statistics a while ago, but I looked at some Crysis tests on tomshardware and it did far worse, plus it needed at least a 600 watt power supply. Was about $40 cheaper though.
 
The regular 8800GT runs crysis with everything on max and AAx4 at a resolution of 1024x768 at about 37FPS. So I'm hoping with this KO or SC edition I can pull off more, plus I'm going to buy a sound card for $80 that's supposed to boost your FPS by 10-15.
 
Why would you pay someone to do something you can do yourself? The 8800GT G92 core is really overclockable, can manage 700Mhz easily, just buy an 8800GT at stock frequencies and then overclock it yourself.
 
i was only saying that cos where i am theres no differnce. some overclocked ones are even cheaper. so i just try and get whatever cos not many places have stock
 
Kuzba said:
mrbigsexy if you cant quite afford the 8800GT then take a look at the ATI HD3850

if you look at these benchmarks its almost as good as the 8800 GT but a fair bit cheaper.
http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics_2007.html?modelx=33&model1=1061&model2=1057&chart=275

on newegg.com the 3850 is $90 cheaper than the 8800GT

so that would be worth looking at
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But at high resolution 8800GT smokes HD3850

check this
http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics_2007.html?modelx=33&model1=1061&model2=1057&chart=278
 
i know. but for me its not about price vs performance. its about just what i cna actually afford.
 
I absolutely REFUSE to buy an ATI card! I NEVER have, and NEVER will! I'm an NVIDIA fan ALL TEH UBERWAY!!!!

But the thing is, I used to only build economical systems. I used to build celerons and durons, and I would use whatever video card was closest to $80. Only one time a long time ago I bought a GeForce GTS card and it was $300 back then. OOoh man was that a good card! That and my 3DFX Voodoo 3000 card! And then another time I bought an Athlon CPU, but even that was around $100.

So basically, I'm building my current system with premium parts. But the max I will be running the games at will be 1600 x 1200 but with the highest quality settings.
 
Kewl Munky said:
The regular 8800GT runs crysis with everything on max and AAx4 at a resolution of 1024x768 at about 37FPS. So I'm hoping with this KO or SC edition I can pull off more, plus I'm going to buy a sound card for $80 that's supposed to boost your FPS by 10-15.
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A sound card is not going to boost Crysis (or any game) 10-15 FPS. The most you will see is 1-3, and even that is stretching it. This is especially true if you have a multi-core processor.
 
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