The Official Budget-Conscious Dream Machine!

22nd July was the date that happened

 

lol, it happened long time ago, you could get a Q6600 for the price of E6600.

OK guys the new 8800GT 512MB(G92) rocks! it outperforms 8800GTS 640MB (G80), i wonder if it will outperform the new GTS 112 Stream Processors?

 

Who knows? The 8800GT has proven a very strong performer so far...

 

yeah and it is using the latest and newest core the G9x, is this rumor still on that there will be a new graphics card coming out on Xmas?

 

I doubt that the GeForce 8 series will be replaced so soon. They have yet to release a game that these cards won't handle at max settings and resolution (plus eye candy.) But I bet that the G9x core will end up as our 8900GTX.

*EDIT*

Looking at an 8800GT review now... WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!

And the price!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Even though I like having a high-end build, I feel really stupid now for paying $600 for my 8800GTX... oh well

 

i am assuming you have not herd of a game called crysis?

 

AN 8800GT will run Crysis just fine.

 

when a GTX is finding it hard, i doubt a GT will pull through

 

More here: http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/10/29/geforce_8800_gt/page13.html

8800GT all the way my friend!

 

Check out the graph...

Doesn't exactly bring the cards to their knees, does it? The 8800GTS 320MB will run it buttery smooth at 1280 x 1024(from looking at 1600 x 1200 performance). And also from looking at performance, I think the 8600GTS would handle it well at 1280 x 1024 at medium detail.

I will be running at 1600 x 1200(maybe 1920 x 1200.) I'm also planning on SLi when I get Crysis(several months from now). SLi will handle it at least 1.5x as well, hopefully.

It does seem to scale well. Rumor is, low detail in the game is the same as cranked detail in FarCry. So, in the end, even the guys barely able to get it smooth in 800 x 600 at lowest details(the GeForce 6800 crowd) will get a decent looking game.

 

the graph backs my point... you buy a £400 gpu and you cant run a posible GOTY at a good resolution with full eye candy... its just not good enough that it dont go the magic 60fps for four hundred GBP. just like when farcry came out

 

but hey crysis(Crytek) took a huge leap, the best in the game industries, it is challenging the latest and the greatest technologies...

i need help with this one...8800GT is PCI-E 2.0 x16, will it be able to run on a normal PCI-E x16?

 

yep it works on pcie x16 verisons 1.0 1.1 and 2.0

 

cool...but its PCI-E 2.0 and running on a PCI-E will the performance increase a little? and what PSU do i need to run this monter smoothly?

 

No nothing will change, it's just a move my Nvidia to support PCI-E 2 and make people try to move to that.

 

oh ok...i have a AMD Athlon64 3500+ and currently have 8600GTS 256MB OC, and if i upgrade it to 8800GT 512 OC will the CPU bottle neck my GPU? and how many watts and PSU brand do you guys recommend?

 

Yeah it probably will bottleneck your system. A 550W powersupply will probably do. Get one from good brands like PC power and cooling, OCZ, or thermaltake.


Lol is the last most I wrote "my" Nvidia WTF? lol

 

seriously i'm crazy with that card...it will be MINE one day...ok with that spec will i be able to run crysis?

oh and is it possible to have 4Gb of RAM on XP...will it pick up?

 

Crysis will easily have an 8800GTX to its knees. Look at the benchmark, that's an average frame rate right there, at 1920x1440, the best the card can manage is 28fps, that's without AA or AF turned on. At 2560x1600, it'd have no chance.

 

yeah tru but i dont think anyone will run a game on 2560x1600 unless they have the most powerful computer and a monitor that supports that resolution...

my question still havn't been answered yet...it possible to have 4Gb of RAM on XP...will it pick up?