Hi again folks,

Ok I am in a dilemma, Nividia seem to have managed to make things extremely complicated for purchasing a new graphics card! I currently have a Fatality XFX 8800 320 @ 660 Core and 2000 (effective) mem. I am looking to upgrade the card in the near future and am not sure about the benifits of a 9800 GX2 on a 19 inch wide screen (1400X900) and after reading some things from my last post ref the 9800 (power hungry, size and cost). So I have looked at the 8800 GTS 512, the 8800 GT 512 and the 8800 GTX 768. All of which do different clock speeds, memory and different amounts of stream processors!! I enjoy gaming, mainly FP such as CoD 4, even Crysis, but it's a bit choppy on the card I have now. Also car games such as Test Drive Unlimited.

Can anyone advise me on a upgrade, something that is going to give more grunt than the card I have now and last for a little while, until the next upgrade!!!!!! I have a amd X2 6000+ @ 3.1 gig, 2 gig OCZ DDR2 800 RAM.

Mick.

Mick, there isn't a whole lot of difference in the cards you listed, with the exception of VRAM. Depending on your system configuration and SW configuration, you may get the same choppiness from any of these NVidia offerings.
I'm running the 786MB VRAM version of the 8800 GTX, and will still get some of the indicated behaviour from some of the SW you've mentioned.
Of course I'm running a socket 939 X2 system, so the GTX is not necessarily the bottleneck. The biggest thing is if you are going to go SLI, and getting the best bang for the buck there seems to be the 8800 GTS 512MB offerings.

Gerritt

Gerritt, cheers for the info, I am on a AM2 board but had a socket 939 before this one. Forgive my ignorance but what is a VRAM version of 8800 GTX? I havn't got an SLI board either. I just wanted the best single card for my monitor size.

Mick.

Wow, I'd have expected that we'd have more input from the HWA community than the zero we've had as of yet. I'm pretty sure its DDR3, but the clocking not withstanding, it seems that the concencis is that the GTS offerings at 512MB are the best bang for the buck, while leaving the top end open for the GTX board. In a dual or better SLI arrangement, it seems the GTS wins for the buck.

Gerritt

Ok, so for best performance I should go for the GTX 768, best bang for buck, the GTS 512?

Mick.