And he does it again! --> My newly ordered hardware upgrade! ;)

[Sardaukar]

Earlier this morning I decided to go ahead and upgrade my GPU.. and through a bunch of research I came up with purchasing the: XFX 8800GTS XXX Extreme 320MB PCI-E.

RUnning me $339, prices just dropped a damn good amount (over a hundred dollars) and will be a neat upgrade to cover my old XFX 6800GT 256MB PCI-E.



I'll let ya all know how it goes when it gets here.. heres a link for the curious!


XFX PVT80GGHD9 GeForce 8800GTS 320MB XXX DDR3 PCI-Express Video Card w/Dual DVI HDTV-Out Retail at ZipZoomfly

[MentaL]

[Rishwin]

heh not a bad price, and a dam good card too... goodjob :P

[Sardaukar]

COnsidering that even if I wait for the 8900's to com out, there will still be a bottleneck between my current CPU and the newer GPU's, so this card will about top my system out before I give myself another year to save up for a brand new gaming rig.. top of the line.



I woudl recommend anyone using any older 7600's or before, to go ahead and throw up the money now to get one of these.. its the right time for it, and these neweer games are resource hogs for GPUs :-)

[deadly2003]

its a realy good card shorter then the 8800gtx and gts (the higher ones) and uses 1 power molex :P also it seems to run at the same lvl of the higher gts maybe a little lower on more intensive games and higher rez it will still kick the 7xxx cards asses

here is a link on the review:
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB XFX XXX & BFG OC

its worth buying i say

i should of bough two of these instead of the 8800gtx :/ i would of saved money and have better gfx :/

[KongoIL]

Thats just the "Omg It Runs" G. Card atm.

Gratz 'course!

[NoPeace]

COnsidering that even if I wait for the 8900's to com out, there will still be a bottleneck between my current CPU and the newer GPU's, so this card will about top my system out before I give myself another year to save up for a brand new gaming rig.. top of the line.



I woudl recommend anyone using any older 7600's or before, to go ahead and throw up the money now to get one of these.. its the right time for it, and these neweer games are resource hogs for GPUs :-)

There's still a bottle neck with that card and your CPU. =P

Sucks tbh. All that GPU power and can't fully use it unless you have a large monitor. Never the less it's a nice buy. Once you get yourself a new rig pop in another one of those and it'll be really flying.

Much better then my single 7900GTX. :cry:

its a realy good card shorter then the 8800gtx and gts (the higher ones) and uses 1 power molex :P also it seems to run at the same lvl of the higher gts maybe a little lower on more intensive games and higher rez it will still kick the 7xxx cards asses

here is a link on the review:
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 MB XFX XXX & BFG OC

its worth buying i say

i should of bough two of these instead of the 8800gtx :/ i would of saved money and have better gfx :/

Shorter then the 640mb GTS? All the stuff I've read about says both GTS's are the same aside from the memory chip density. =P

But yeah those 320's are really worth it. Makes DX10 reach able to more people.

Not bad pricing nVidia is going to have.

$600 - 8950 GX2
$550 - 8900 GTX
$500 - 8900 GTS
$450 - 8800 GTX
$400 - 8800 GTS 640mb
$350 - 8900 GS
$300 - 8800 GTS 320mb
$250 - 8600 Ultra
$200 - 8600
$150 - 8300 Ultra
$100 - 8300
$80 - G78 (7300 w/ die shrink)

They are going to have a card no matter your price rage. A pair of the 8900 GTX's are very tempting. Probably will get them if the 8800 GTX's don't drop sub $500 before the release or the x2800XTX is vastly better then 2x 8800 GTX's (single x2800 uses 240w and that's to hot for my liking and who knows if CF will be good or not). :icon6:

NoPeace - out

[deadly2003]

:O why would u want a 8900? the 8800 is already fast enough XD

[George]

im happy with my 3d1
i dont play games
and those i play run smoothly under 1280x1024
some months before i used to run under 1200x1600 (i loved my crt)

[NoPeace]

:O why would u want a 8900? the 8800 is already fast enough XD

It should be as fast as SLI 8800GTS's =P

So when you are thinking of getting a card you can choose for more power if you have the money. Not to mention the x2800XTX is going to be faster then the 8800GTX so nVidia will want to make something that's just as good. And the 8900's are on 80nm. So less power and runs cooler.

So you get more speed and it uses less power and runs cooler, which also means quieter, for just $100 more. ;)

Good deal in my mind. But yeah. The 8800 GTX is already so fast that it's at the point of being to fast. And with DX10 games it should run then even faster then DX9 games. O.O

NoPeace - out

[kip0130]

yea i may upgrade to pcie and get dual 320 mbs
or should i get dual 768's

[deadly2003]

no point getting the 768mb now... just buy 2X gts 320 it should beat the 768 in some ways + u get twice the performance

[NoPeace]

no point getting the 768mb now... just buy 2X gts 320 it should beat the 768 in some ways + u get twice the performance

Unless it's from Evga. ;)

You got to love the Trade Up Program that they off. Buy a card and if in the next 90 days something better comes out you can upgrade at the difference in cost.

So if you buy a 8800GTX for $600 and the 8900GTX comes out next month for $550 or the 8950GX2 for $600 you'll get a free upgrade to either of them + the cost of tax and shipping. So basically you pay $40 for a better card.

Pretty sweet deal in my option. Totally forgot about that and might just figure out a way to get some 8800 GTX's sooner and then upgrade them to 8900's or 8950's. Just imagine getting a total quad system. Quad SLI with a Quad Core with 4 sticks of memory with 4 HDD.

Also if you are thinking about getting dual 320's I'll wait. The 8950GX2 will be faster as it has higher clocks and more RAM.

NoPeace - out

[kip0130]

Unless it's from Evga. ;)

You got to love the Trade Up Program that they off. Buy a card and if in the next 90 days something better comes out you can upgrade at the difference in cost.

So if you buy a 8800GTX for $600 and the 8900GTX comes out next month for $550 or the 8950GX2 for $600 you'll get a free upgrade to either of them + the cost of tax and shipping. So basically you pay $40 for a better card.

Pretty sweet deal in my option. Totally forgot about that and might just figure out a way to get some 8800 GTX's sooner and then upgrade them to 8900's or 8950's. Just imagine getting a total quad system. Quad SLI with a Quad Core with 4 sticks of memory with 4 HDD.

Also if you are thinking about getting dual 320's I'll wait. The 8950GX2 will be faster as it has higher clocks and more RAM.

NoPeace - out

im waiting for evga to RMA my 6600 it freezes XP
so i should get 8900gx2s????

[NoPeace]

im waiting for evga to RMA my 6600 it freezes XP
so i should get 8900gx2s????

If you have a C2D e6600 or higher, an FX62 or higher, or a PD EE 3.74ghz and 2-4gb of memory.

If not then forget about it as it will have a massive bottle neck.

NoPeace - out

[kip0130]

If you have a C2D e6600 or higher, an FX62 or higher, or a PD EE 3.74ghz and 2-4gb of memory.

If not then forget about it as it will have a massive bottle neck.

NoPeace - out

oh ok ill upgrade my pc first