Buying new 8 Series, help:P

[Liam:o]

I am wanting to buy a 8800Gts for my computer and i have a budget of around 358$ or 250€ (obviously the cheeper the better)..


Im not sure wheather to go for the
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 Mb
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 320/640 MB
But im not sure which ould be better for price;power ratio or price:value for money

[Banach[Been Around]]

I'm buying the 8800 GT 512 MB

Costs like 329.99$ here in Canada.

[Liam:o]

umm ok

[[BFE]HELLBOY]

http://bfecod.totalgamingnetwork.com/showthread.php?t=768

Tinfoil already researched the hell outta this for ya

[Liam:o]

So you reakon a 8800Gt would be just as good for less money..I mainly want it for cod4 and maybe guildwars

[[bfe]atari]

DONT GET EITHER. the 9 series are coming out in a couple of months, would be a waste of money to buy a 8 series now.

[Liam:o]

And how much will this cost ? 500£ ?

In the world of technology, no matter what you buy, no matter at what time theres always going to be new and more powerful technology which will deem the older ones obsolete. But theres an upside. If your rich you dont have to worry about this problem but for now I'm not :P

So is it not ironic that people upgrade their computers at all :) Its all madness tbh :O

[[BFE]HELLBOY]

The 8800GT is THEE best buy right now. The GTS and GTX versions are just overclocked versions of the GT.

Newegg.com has the 8800GT for about $250

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814133205

[Liam:o]

One other thing, how do you know if you need a PCI Express 2.0 or PCI Express x16 or is there a difference

i think i have PCI Express x16 but not sure

[Liam:o]

snatched this :P http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MEWN:IT&ih=005

[[SF]Sgt.twig*]

Actually hellboy, the 8800 gt is an overclocked version of the 8800 gts with more VRAM.

I've got the 8800 gts 320mb, Its runs everything fine on high at 70 - 90 fps. I really don't care for top of the line cards because guess what, you are just wasting your money waiting for the newer cards when you can get todays cards for less.

[Lt.Hanley]

DONT GET EITHER. the 9 series are coming out in a couple of months, would be a waste of money to buy a 8 series now.

Dont count your chickens before they hatch there. There had not even been a 8900 yet.

Twig is right i have a 8800 GTS 320 i love it!

[Liam:o]

I actually cant wait untill mine arrives, i bought it my self and im more excited about that than my xmas presants but gona take like a week to arrive (