Should I Get a 8800GT or a HD3870?

Well if we go by that you are using a 17" monitor, i dont think you would see much difference
between the 2. But if i was to go by which card is better then i voted for the 8800gt

jimbo405 said:

lol seriously stop talking iam a 8800 gt 512 mb owner myself and you are full of shit and never used a r670 before just stfu.

its a good card.

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its a good card, but benchmarks prove it isnt up to par. This is geforceFX all over again except ATI is on the reciving end.

jimbo405 said:

lol seriously stop talking iam a 8800 gt 512 mb owner myself and you are full of shit and never used a r670 before just stfu.

its a good card.

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Just reported you for the second time.

Say BYE BYE.

jimbo405 said:

lol seriously stop talking iam a 8800 gt 512 mb owner myself and you are full of shit and never used a r670 before just stfu.

its a good card.

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Alright Jimbo, you have not been here for a long time. Consider this a kind warning: please refrain from insulting other members, everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

I will keep an eye on this thread. Please keep it clean.

cheers
DS

jimbo405 said:

lol seriously stop talking iam a 8800 gt 512 mb owner myself and you are full of shit and never used a r670 before just stfu.

its a good card.

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Oh dear, it seems that some people simply don't know how to read....see you in five days.

cooler said:

tkpenalty you will get 8800gt no matter what we say
(this thread has no point,we already know the answer :shadedshu )

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+5 on that.

The 3870 has its positive attributes, but for your described use I think the 8800GT will be faster in most cases.

tkpenalty said:

Sorry for bringing the thread back from the dead, but this matter isn't signifcant enough to deserve its own thread... BUT

From what some TPU users say, the Palit 8800GT Sonic> Gigabyte's 8800GT Ultra Durable, is totaly incorrect. After physically examining the Gigabyte 8800GT's PCB the power phases are like this:

NOTE: This 8800 pic's PCB uses slightly inferior components compared to the production model

2x Memory phases
4x Vcore Phases.

Why? Two chokes on top and bottom of the four larger R80 chokes. It would be rather illogical to have two extra chokes on either side of the large set. Moreover, note the type of MOSFET that are used, these are BGA mounted-not the legmounted ones, different. The memory phases sure, use small components, but two phase for memory anyone?

So people like Wile E, etcetera, what do you say about this?

EDIT: Moreover, the 8800 from gigabyte now comes with a cut down version of the VF1000, two heatpipes less fins, but its larger than the VF900CU. I nickname it the VF1000 LE , this means that the cooling for the 8800 is superior to the older revision, and the Palit one. However I don't really care... AcceleroS1 anyone? .

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It's right on they're site tk. The GB card is 3phase. 4 chokes does not mean 4 phases.

Furthermore, the cooling difference doesn't matter in reference to this thread as you said an Accelero S1 will be going on it. But the Palit cooling is better than stock.

Pics I took of the Palit 8800GT 1GB I have.

I had the Accelero S1 on my Asus 8800GT and it was awesome, overclocked and BIOS modded to 1.1V at 775 core it idled at around 32C and did not go above 47C full load, it is without a doubt better than the Palit aftermarket cooler fitted as standard but not by a vast amount, I have applied Ceramique to mine and get idles of around 42C at 60% fan and load temps of around 58C, at 100% you can drop those temps by 10C but then you would have a leaf blower in your case, considering the GPU can handle temps in excess of 90C apparently then IMO it's doing a pretty good job.

Lolz

i bought an 8800gts late last year around september

a couple of weeks ago graphical errors started occuring then its temp at idle was around 48-50C and over 80 at high load

strange but its built to handle said temps i hadnt changed the clockspeed or tweaked it in any way and previously its temps for idle and load were about 10-14 C cooler

the s&*$ hit the fan when my OS wouldnt boot and colums of squares appeared during boot

so i took it back to my retailer and they went over it called me back in about 3 days to inform me that the card was completely cooked burnt out or w/e way you want to put it

they couldnt really explain it i gave them my PC specs and it left them baffled

so you know what ive got ill list it maybe you have an idea

Asus Commando MB 965P 2PCIe/D2/S2/1394(775)
INTEL Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4GHZ (775) Quad Core CPU
Corsair 1GB PC4200 DDR2 533x2
Twintech GeForce 8800GTS 320MB PCIe Video Card 2xDVI/TV-out
400watt psu cant remember the brand and i cant check cause i bought a new corsair 550W a couple of weeks back due to a tech telling me it didnt have enough power

3 120mm fans front side and rear

according to my supplier i was the first they'd heard of that has fryed one (call guiness)

any ideas or tips would be more then welcome

back to the point though maybe geforce isnt the way to go rite now i wasnt taxing it i think the most load it every came under was Mplayer supreme commander with expansion

8800gt

Ati Hd 3870

didn't we conclude an 8800GT was the way?

We did, not sure why the newbie posted here his problem with the OLD 8800GTS

candle_86 said:

really just how is thats?

the 320 stream processors or the the heat it puts off?

lets be real and blunt here, ATI/AMD lost, and they lost hard.

ATI pushed the x1900XTX line out, Nvidia didnt do much since the NV40. Look at NV40 compared to G71, some optimations here and there but all in all the 7900GTX could have been called a 6950Ultra and it would meant the same thing. Nvidia set there sites on the prize and doing what they know best. ATI built the R520 which failed to compete and was late to market and responded with the R580 which didnt hold up to the G71 so they made the R580+

That whole time Nvidia spent working on G80. G70 as we know it is NV47 and guess what that makes it very close to NV40.

ATI did the whole DX thing back in 2002, Nvidia got cut from the planning stages and had to guess to get a card to market before 2004. Look at it this way, Nvidia made a mistake once, its called NV25 and its how ATI caught them, and guess what ATI/AMD just did it with R600 by spending all there time on the R500 line of GPU's and Nvidia servered them notice that this is still Nvidias ball game, you play by there rules or you loose.

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/off topic
The r520 didn't lose at anything, it was more than 25% faster than the 7800gtx 256mb and matched the all too rare 7800gtx 512mb, and of course the sapphire x1800xtpe bios took care of that.
ati was far too premature with the x1900's and should have held them off for a while, as the x1800xt was faste enoguh to catch and beat in several areas the 7900gt, and with the pe bios, it matched the gtx. then ati could have launched the x1900's right after the 7900's and aquire quite a few more sales that way. this would have also given them more resources to work on the r600 as the r580 didn't need any revisions to beat the 7900 series.
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getting back on topic the 3870 is a decent card for the money, but still fails to compete with the 8800gt much less the g92 based gts. luckily for amd, though, nvidia got ahead of themselves with that launch and all the specs and reviews of the 9800gtx aren't impressive at all at this point.

bottom line the 8800gt is the card to get out of this thread, and it seems it will still be competitve for a while longer based on the next line up.