Dell brand 7800GTX... as good as reference design?

Damascus

Damascus

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I'm browsing around for a good, cheap, Dx9 card for a customer's machine, they want to upgrade from a GF 7200 (IIRC) to something with more raw power for Dx 9 games (they are using XP, and don't want Vista).
I've found a Dell brand Geforce 7800GTX for $75, but it looks much different than what I remembered the PCB to look like on the reference Nvidia design... at least the large piece of PCB sticking off the rear of the card which seems to be there for no reason other than mounting purposes... also the price... seems a little cheap for real 7800GTX, even if it is several models behind...
Here's the link:
http://www.ascendtech.us/itemdesc.asp?ic=VCDELGEF7800GTX

This card will be going into an AMD Athlon 4000+ (single core), DFI LP NF4 SLi mainboard, 2GB DDR400, 600w PSU, and is mounted in a full-tower case, so card size shouldn't be a problem...
What do you guys think?
 
Nice - thanx for the replies! I've been out of the game for a long time... the last time I was into gaming PC's I had just shucked out $350 for an eVGA 7800GTX Superclocked edition... and back then, the 7800GTX and the x1950xt were the "fastest" cards out there... Now, they're selling for $40... man... :eek:
So, you think a 8600GTS would outperform a 7800GTX?? I know the 8600 is DX10 ready, and the 7800 is only DX9 - but my customer is running XP and has no intention of upgrading to Vista any time soon, so he'll only be running DX9 games, or DX10 games running on 9... Wouldn't the 7800 have a little more raw power (especially on high resolution and/or AA/AF) than the 8600?? I remembered the 7800GTX I had on my last system could run the latest games at the time (FEAR, HL2, CoD4) at my monitors highest res (1400x1050) with all details maxxed, usually with a good bit of AA and always 16x AF, and never get "unplayable" framerates... now I know that games like Crysis, etc, would smoke the 7800 - but they'd smoke an 8600 too, correct??
Basically, I just need to find the best card for this customer's computer for around $100.. just so he can play games, doesn't need to max details or anything. Thanx for the help!
 
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