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Originally Posted by GnarPow
8800 For The Win! Hands down. Get the 640mb and dont waste money on any other 8 series unless its a GTX or Ultra 
And for a little input: Me and my friend did a test the other day to see how the 8 series stacked up to the 7 series. We used Half Life: Lost Coast video test as our base and maxed out the settings. He had a E6600 and SLI OCd 7900GS's. I have a E6400 and a 640 OCd 8800GTS.
We turned the settings up and let the test run. Even with my crappier processor I destroyed him in the test. I got 108fps as a average and he got around 50 something. So for everyone who recommends 7 series. Just stop it, they arent worth it. They are already outdated because they cant play any of the newer games in DX10 and they dont post #s even close to the 8 series.
You might think your saving money now, but your wasting it in the long run.
Also no one even look at anything less than a 8800. THe other 8 series are crap.
My 2 cents |
I must agree with this response. Wait a bit longer, save up the cash, and get an 8800 series card. It doesn't have to be the huge 8800GTX, but I highly recommend spending the money to at least get the 640MB version of the GTS...
By purchasing a 7000 series PCI-X card, you're wasting money in the long run. If you have an AGP based motherboard, I can only say that you really should invest in either a 650i or 680i SLI type board...
AGP still works very well for most of the games that everyone here seems to play (the old school crowd). But if there's any desire to play the next-gen games like Farcry 2, Crysis, etc... at DX10 levels, I highly recommend, can't stress the highly part, a card =>8800GTS 640MB.
By purchasing older hardware you'll have to upgrade sooner and thereby spend more money. I make it a habit of purchasing top of the line hardware, that way it'll last at LEAST 3 -4 years before becoming semi-obscolete. I was stuck in AGP until about a year ago, when I finally bit the bullet and upgraded to the system specs you see below.
Given that I have an SLI based motherboard, will mean that in the future, I'll at least be able to put another 8800GTX in my system and go SLI with a bit of a performance increase without having to purchase a major card... but I'm sure there'll be better technology out by then anyways. I won't go SLI until Vista sorts out their SLI driver issues or unless Crysis and Farcry 2 really need it.