xfx 8600 gts xxx vs xfx 8800GS Alpha Dog XXX

[simonalexander2005]

Hi,

I am debating buying a graphics card, and have found these four links I like:
Amazon (http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000P9TO76/ref=ord_cart_shr?%5Fencoding=UTF8&m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE)
ebuyer (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/127284)
epcbuyer (http://www.epcbuyer.com/product/XFX-nVidia-GeForce-8800GS-Alpha-Dog-XXX-Edition-384MB-DDR3-Dual-DVIHDTV-Out-PCI-E,-Retail_6076.html)
scan (http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=747619)


1. What do you thing of the cards/prices charged?
2. Could I get a significantly better card for the price range?
3. Which, overall, would you recommend i buy?

cheers,

Simon

[DOM]

8800GS or a GT

[ShadowFold]

The 8800GS destroys the 8600GTS. Pretty much anything nowa days does. Wait for the 9600GT tho.

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

get a 8800GS

[rick22]

Get the 8800 and good luck with it..

[simonalexander2005]

Cheers!

The only thing I wasn't sure about was that the GS in the 8800GS usually means the card is not as good as say a GT or GTS. What difference does the "Alpha dog xxx" part make?

[ShadowFold]

Cheers!

The only thing I wasn't sure about was that the GS in the 8800GS usually means the card is not as good as say a GT or GTS. What difference does the "Alpha dog xxx" part make?

XFX's Alpha Dog line is the G92 8800's.

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

Cheers!

The only thing I wasn't sure about was that the GS in the 8800GS usually means the card is not as good as say a GT or GTS. What difference does the "Alpha dog xxx" part make?

an overclock can fix that somewhat ...

[wolf]

8800 > 8600. thats all there is to it.

[Titus]

+1 for the 8800 GS.
Noisy but good performances for the price and good overclocking capacities with Riva Tuner ( v 2.06 ).

[simonalexander2005]

Cheers for the tips, everyone!

Looking at other threads on the forums, i am seeing that the xfx version may not be the best choice available... does this make any real technical difference? Is there anything you would particularly recommend?

One more question: How would I go about overclocking? I have never done it before, and have heard quite alot about it going wrong...

In case it's useful, my system specs are:

Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 motherboard
Athlon 64 3200+ CPU
2 x 17" 1280*1024 res monitors
1GB Kingston PC3200 DDR RAM (2*512)

[[I.R.A]_FBi]

ur going to need more cpu juice ...

[Titus]

Looking at other threads on the forums, i am seeing that the xfx version may not be the best choice available... does this make any real technical difference? Is there anything you would particularly recommend?

One more question: How would I go about overclocking? I have never done it before, and have heard quite alot about it going wrong...


No soucy with the XFX 8800 GS : good OC potential ;) and low cost ( don't buy XXX version, the " normal " version can be OC easy ;) ).
For OC : use Riva Tuner v. 2.06 updated ( for G92 GPUs ).
A better heat sink as the Zalman 900 is a good way to performance in silence.

[simonalexander2005]

OK. Are there any good tutorials on overclocking anyone can recommend?

[simonalexander2005]

just a quick thought... would i be better off SLIing two lower spec graphics cards (say 8600gt's) instead of the one 8800gs?

Actually, not sure if mobo supports it... never mind!

[divinebaboon]

It's generally best to stick to one good card than SLI'ing 2 lesser cards. Why?well there's the whole performance thing, and also less trouble. Compatibility etc.

[simonalexander2005]

Card is here XDXDXDXDXD :roll::roll::roll::roll::roll:

just put it in PC... its huge! much bigger than my last one.

In the end I got the alpha dog edition... I mean, come on - "Alpha Dog"! Who wouldn't :D

it's all good, although ubuntus not liking it too much. any ideas?

[candle_86]

you aksed this already but 8800GS

[echostrike]

your going to have to do the whole "sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" thing with ubuntu. typically works well with nvidia cards.

follow this guide:


http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=690760

[simonalexander2005]

it isn't working- ubuntu is booting in low graphics mode, but nothing else. I'll start a new thread though.