neothaka

the only problem is getting an 8800GT, there's a major understock atm and retailers are really bringing up the price for the ones that are still available

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PowerGamer

wait a week or two, things will mellow down and the prices will drop.

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Ithian

Ok I've decided not to go with the 8800gt for pricing reasons.

So far I've understood that basically 2x 8600gts = 8800gt.

So if someone could tell me what the best bang for my buck is atm, that'd be great. I currently run on an integrated 6150. yes, lol. It sucks.

So thanks again for all the help, this is deciding where 80% of my money is gonna go

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neothaka

2x8600GTS = 8800GTS 640 mb
3/4x 8600GTS = 8800GT

again, the 8800GT is the best videocard available at a low price. And it performs like a madman.

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Mordar

actually the 3870 is only 10-20% below the 8800GT,

http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards....=547&card2=544

and is 20% above HD2900

http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards....=547&card2=518

at half the price of both cards, the 3870 wins hans down, and has something the above cards doesn't have, better power consuming management, that alone kicks them both out of the water as it doesn't force yoou to once again buy a new power supply just for those, remember the main part of a VGA it's his memory bandwith which as you can see kicks the 8800GT out

IMO at the same price of the 8800GT (around 300$ in newegg) with an extra 100$ you get 2 HD 3870 if you have the price and space and get almost 4 times the power of two 8800GT at half the power consumption, or just with 1 3870 you get nearly the same power of the 8800GT at half the price

I suggest you do your searchs in gpureview, they are pretty good when coming with comparisons

and who said otherwise ?

right now, I suggest you forget about nvidia's mid range cards as the geforce 8600GTS is almost the same price as the 8800GT and perform in a lesser way, for the same price of 2 8600GTS you can get 2 HD 3850 and these perform much better, or just get a single 8800GT, and if you cut your price by 100$ you can get the HD 3870 which is the ATI's novelty right now

PowerGamer

8800GT vs 3870
http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=703&p=0


12% cost drop does not equal 20% performance drop..
I'd rather pay the quite small amount of extra cash for that.

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Fox Company

holeh Shiest Nvidia Is Gonna Get Ati Out Of Business!

neothaka

it's a shame that AMD and ATI have been doing so poorly the past year.
i'm using AMD cpu's and they tend to be severely outperformed by intel ones.
f.e. the Phenom Quads aren't near as good as C2Q.

as for ATI, i never liked ATI alltogether , i just bought an EVGA 8800GT Superclocked (the only available 8800GT in about entire belgium)

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Mordar

you already said it all with that review, the HD 3870 proved to be quite a good competitor for the 8800GT, and with 100$ less, less power consumption and great memory bandwith you don't need to be a VGA fanboy to see which really brings out the most for less money, imagine getting a 8800GT just to see you need a new power supply because the one you already have will get toasted

neothaka

the 8800Gt has sufficient power coming from a 500W psu

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