Second 7800gt or new 4000+ SD?

[AT39]

Re: Second 7800gt or new 4000+ SD?

I swear, nobody has actually answered his question. Ok.

What I think you should do is this: If you're not getting anything for two months, wait until the 7800GTX 512MB is released. That will help to drasticallly drive down the price of the normal GTX. Then I would get that.

[rustEswan]

Re: Second 7800gt or new 4000+ SD?

Get a GTX. The new beta drivers support mixed cards with SLI, as long as they are the same series.

Not quite. You have to have cards with the same core. two 7800 GT's clocked at different speeds would work together but not a GT and GTX. The GT has only 20 pipes the GTX has 24 as well as a couple of other minor differences.

see - http://www.slizone.com/object/slizone2_rel80.html

I certainly wouldnt sell the GT and get a GTX. Theres just no value in doing that . You'd get a maximum of around 10 fps better performance at 1280x1024 and i find that very hard to justify.

My 7800 GT with an A64 3500 and 1 GB 2-2-2-5 OCZ runs perfectly smoothly @ 1280x1024 with 4x AA and 16 AF.
The only problem I have is that when I start a round of BF2 I get around 2 fps for the first 20-25 seconds with alot of disk thrashing then everything speeds up and is fine.

Im guessing its doing alot of cacheing or something which is why i was wondering if another 7800GT might ease the issue due to having a total 512mb video memory or possibley a faster 10000rpm WD raptor drive or an extra GB RAM. I dont really know enough about it - Im in the same boat as you.

Could anyone else make any suggestions as to where the sensible money should be spent ?

[cyborg_ninja-117]

Re: Second 7800gt or new 4000+ SD?

getting a second 7800gt will be turning into sli mode... i say get a new cpu

[N2K]

Re: Second 7800gt or new 4000+ SD?

new drivers can mix 7800, diff brand and diff clock

[DeathFromAbove]

Re: Second 7800gt or new 4000+ SD?

Buy a gun.

[N2K]

Re: Second 7800gt or new 4000+ SD?

was thinking of that too lol

[DeathFromAbove]

Re: Second 7800gt or new 4000+ SD?

Las Vegas has a lot of cool guns too bad you can't get a g36c

[N2K]

Re: Second 7800gt or new 4000+ SD?

who said i was going to buy in store , im from southern cali too