8800 512mb Stock Gt vs. 8800 gts 640mb Superclocked by evga. Which is better?
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hermeslyre
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Meaning you don't care the price? The GT is better, even when the alternative is overclocked. Most people here, including I, will generally advise away from pre-overclocked cards.. as the overclock can easily be applied yourself.
RampageCole6
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Stay with the old unless you want to go with the 8800ultra 768Mb if you have the money...plus it has DirrectX 10
JLV2k5
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Stop recommending these, the 8800 768mb cards. The additional performance you get for several hundred $$s more just inst worth in. And ALL Geforce 8000 series cards are DirectX10.
elitehacker
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Exactly, ANY card from the 8 series HAS DX 10. The 8800GTX is pretty much phased out in Australia, they cost a fortune and very hard to find, the G80 core in them are more than a year old man. Definitely the NEW G92 8800GTS will beat the older generation 8800GTS hands down, they have a totally different fabrication process and architecture.
elitehacker
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Memory is not everything, same goes for frequency as well, its there are a whole range of other factors that determine performance like the fabrication process, architecture etc etc.
Just thought I'd chime in...I'm Stepping Up my 8600GTS 256MB for a G92'd 8800GTS 512MB stock version. It should arrive Wednesday. Looking at memory bandwidth alone, I'll be moving from 32GB/s to 62GB/s.
There's just no percentage in purchasing the old G80 cores. I can't believe the price hasn't fallen out from underneath those things. I think that in the right system, an 8800GTS 512 will come close to something like an Ultra. A user-OC'd GTS will definately give those old behemoths a serious run for their money.
If you want my serious advice, take your $700+ a buy two of the new GTS's. Yeah, SLI isn't a great price/performance deal, but if money REALLY isn't an issue...
...then all you have to do is overclock your quad-core straight to hell in order to max out your performance celing, and load up on the RAM.
Or you could just get one 8800GTS and use the money you would have spent on an array of wunder kards to pay your rent.
There's just no percentage in purchasing the old G80 cores. I can't believe the price hasn't fallen out from underneath those things. I think that in the right system, an 8800GTS 512 will come close to something like an Ultra. A user-OC'd GTS will definately give those old behemoths a serious run for their money.
If you want my serious advice, take your $700+ a buy two of the new GTS's. Yeah, SLI isn't a great price/performance deal, but if money REALLY isn't an issue...
...then all you have to do is overclock your quad-core straight to hell in order to max out your performance celing, and load up on the RAM.
Or you could just get one 8800GTS and use the money you would have spent on an array of wunder kards to pay your rent.