so what am i gonna buy next guys

[exodusprime1337]

so i've got my 8800gts 320 up to 650/2000/2000 and yeah i love it it's been faithful, fun great whatever for a while now, but i want something new. for a while i was looking at the 3870x2 but it seems to be only a small margin faster then an 8800gts g92 so i was think, i've got an sli board, and the evga 8800 gts g92 is only 289 with a 30 buck mir. i could get 2 of em for only 60 more then the price of one 3870 x2?? should i do that or not?? i really want a new card, and i'd love sli again, my 7900's use to kill it for a long time and i miss having two badass cards. i was gonna get two of them with the accelero coolers for each one. is this a good idea??

[choppy]

what about sli'ing 2 9600gt's? cheaper and very powerful setup

[echostrike]

what about sli'in 2x 9800gx2's


haha, just playin'-- i'd do the 2x 8800gt's (msi models at 199 f/ the egg) if u want to spend about 400 bones.

[exodusprime1337]

remember i got amd so i'll prolly be bottlenecked by the 2 8800's but i just want the most effective upgrade, even one 8800gts g92 seems to be a great step up, how does the 9600gt stack up against an 8800 gts

[ktr]

the G92 GTS is much faster than the G94 GT.

[exodusprime1337]

thought so, would you say buying one and getting a 6400 x2 be would be a good idea for a 400 dollar expenditure??

[erocker]

If you can spend the cash, mabye dump AMD for now? If not, get a 8800GT which would be marvelous in your current system. I don't like the coolers on the GT's as much as the next guy, so mabye a GTS, but I really like those eVGA Akimbo 8800GT's, very cool.:cool:

[exodusprime1337]

well i was gonna get the evga gts with the accellero cooler for it, definately not gonna keep stock, but if put 300 in a card cooler and all and then grabbed the x2 6400 be for a another 140 or whatever, would it be a decent upgrade, i'm sorry i'm not a fanboy but i really like amd, i've just had good luck with them all these years and they get the job done

[panchoman]

why not, spend it on something other then computers if you've got cash to blow? ask yourself if you really need something more powerful then a 8800gts or are you just buying it because you've got the hardware addiction and want to blow extra money on hardware that you dont really need.

imo.. an 8800gts is plenty for the average gamer and you should either save the money or spend it on something else like rubber, booze, skydiving lessons or dry ice.

[btarunr]

The Antec Nine Hundred (and your budget) will have more than enough room for two of these:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127329

I'd say, take them sir.

[hat]

I've got the hardware addiction. :/

[exodusprime1337]

The Antec Nine Hundred (and your budget) will have more than enough room for two of these:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127329

I'd say, take them sir.


omg!!!! i don't know if it was the girl on the cooler or the fact that the card looks badass with it's cooler but that is a nice find right there. No the only quest i have about making a purchase like this, is what's the longevity of getting to gt's over to gts's mind you i don't want to be back on here next feb looking for a new video card, will these two cards keep me gaming on a 24" widescreen lcd for a year or not??

[exodusprime1337]

why not, spend it on something other then computers if you've got cash to blow? ask yourself if you really need something more powerful then a 8800gts or are you just buying it because you've got the hardware addiction and want to blow extra money on hardware that you dont really need.

imo.. an 8800gts is plenty for the average gamer and you should either save the money or spend it on something else like rubber, booze, skydiving lessons or dry ice.


first and formost to be honest with you and don't take this as insulting or anything but the fact that you consider me an average gamer is completly untrue. it would take me a week to list the games i've finished on the computer. crysis, cod4, wic, supr. comm., company of heroe's, all the might and magic games, final fantasy,

i play a lot of fps games, i wouldn't say i'm a pro but i really play for the graphics, something about pretty games makes me wanna cream myself(sorry for the honesty), it's one of the many reasons i like rpg's they just tend to have beautiful graphics.

i don't like any type of lag whatsoever. I'm on a 40 Mbit fiber conn. for the web, i've got enough ram, spend enough time keeeping windows clean and free of crap, i don't want framerate lag either.

i like a big epenis, i'm not a benchmark freak, i just can't compete with intel, but with amd's i'm in the running for a decent rig and i like being proud of my work on my computers.

the 8800gts was a handmedown from a friend when i was broke, well i'm not broke anymore and i want to get something nice for myself and my pc. i've already got a nice card, bike, pool, g/f(she bought the 5000 be for me), and house,

i'm planning on going up to a 24" widescreen in a few weeks so i want cards that can handle the resolution, that's why i'm considering gts's instead of gt's.


just wanted to point that out, i spend to much time in front of the computer to be considered casual that's all. sorry if i seemed to forward with that

[btarunr]

omg!!!! i don't know if it was the girl on the cooler or the fact that the card looks badass with it's cooler but that is a nice find right there. No the only quest i have about making a purchase like this, is what's the longevity of getting to gt's over to gts's mind you i don't want to be back on here next feb looking for a new video card, will these two cards keep me gaming on a 24" widescreen lcd for a year or not??

You've got a 590 SLI board, it feeds each card with a full 16-lane bandwidth. Well, two G92-GT cards are a good option with reasonably good future-proofing. Let me be frank, the 9600 GT is also about the GeForce 9 bragging rights, a G92-GT has 48 SP's more. But the MSI card I'm pointing at is a steal. I mean, look at the cooler, the factory OC (and that the warranty covers the card running at that parameters), I get a deja-vu of the 7900 GTX cooler with that :) and so I must assume the cooler keeps things under check , the fan is larger must have a lower RPM which would mean less noise, the list goes on. For once I wish I could buy those.

Next Feb a lot of things will have changed, no doubt, you'll have the Radeon HD4000 series around. But as of now, these cards are a good buy and even in feb you'll be able to play any game around with reasonably high graphic detail. :)

http://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggImage/productimage/14-127-329-03.jpg
^How inviting.