8800GTS v GTX

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:45 pm

599.00 v 399.00

does it all really come down to just clock speed?

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:47 pm

That and the memory interface.

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 2:50 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:That and the memory interface.

the 760 v 640 .....I am no hardware expert but is it much of a difference for teh price?....performance that is ..

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 3:04 pm

I meant the 384bit VS 320bit interface. Wouldnt that allow more throughput?

Also the GTX has 128 stream processors and the GTS has 96.

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 3:09 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:I meant the 384bit VS 320bit interface. Wouldnt that allow more throughput?

Also the GTX has 128 stream processors and the GTS has 96.

I would assume so....I guess I'm trying to determine the best bang for the buck....

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 3:47 pm

Those won't be your only choice

According to VRZONE NVIDIA will release cheaper GeForce 8800 cards next month to increase pressure on current ATi X1950 lineup targeting at X1950XT 256MB mainly. The new cards will based on the same 8800GTS GPU (96 unified, 24 texture processors and 20 ROPs). It has the same core and memory clock speeds but half the memory size of the current 8800GTS cards.

The card will still be known as GeForce 8800GTS but comes with 320MB GDDR3 memorie in 10 x 8M*32 array so the memory bus width remains unchanged at 320bit. The card length is the same as the current 8800GTS card at 9 inches and it is still a dual slot. The performance is close to the current 8800GTS 640M but it is US$100 cheaper.

Does a price tag of US$299 sounds good to you?

That came from guru... but if I had to choose I'd go with a GTX as its a powerhouse card!!! And make sure you grab one that is Overclocked like from BFG since they are selling those now.

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 4:08 pm

I just ordered 2 GTS's

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 4:24 pm

Izzo wrote:I just ordered 2 GTS's

Only 2? pffft.

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 4:28 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:Only 2? pffft.

I had a few extra pennies layin' around.

KINGoFOOLS · Post by **KINGoFOOLS** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 11:32 pm

Izzo wrote:I just ordered 2 GTS's

Nice! Im looking to grab another one myself. What are you running for a PSU? I wouldnt run anything under 650W.

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 11:36 pm

KINGoFOOLS wrote:Nice! Im looking to grab another one myself. What are you running for a PSU? I wouldnt run anything under 650W.

Thermaltake Toughpower 750w

What are you using to OC that card?

edit>That RAM still holdin' up on ya ok?

David · Post by **David** » Thu Jan 11, 2007 11:54 pm

What kind of monitor are you running with that kind of video horsepower?

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:08 am

Hell_Yes wrote:What kind of monitor are you running with that kind of video horsepower?

2005FPW

I am willing to go bigger

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:36 am

A friend of mine got an 8800GTX, not sure whats wrong but the system boots, but if he goes to play a game, watcha video ro view an intense myspace page the whole system reboots.

He called up support and looks like they're gonna send him a new card, for a single card it requires 30 Amps? Does that mean 60A for SLI?

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 1:11 am

Izzo wrote:I am willing to go bigger

24" widescreen monitor or the Westinghouse 37?

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 2:59 am

YARDofSTUF wrote:A friend of mine got an 8800GTX, not sure whats wrong but the system boots, but if he goes to play a game, watcha video ro view an intense myspace page the whole system reboots.

He called up support and looks like they're gonna send him a new card, for a single card it requires 30 Amps? Does that mean 60A for SLI?

I haven't seen my GTX pull very much at all.. SLI shouldn't pull no more on Peak than 520watts and 700 Watt or better PSU with a 40 AMPs 12 Volts rail should do the trick for most modern systems.

I'm curious too Izzo on what the performance will set you at with those two in SLI cause from what I've read on reviews a single GTS against a GTX loses 30% horse power.. when I think your best investment would have been with a single GTX vs the GTS giving you just as much but costing you less. I went over the reviews for 2 weeks everywhere I could read and I just couldn't justify going with a GTS over the GTX at the cost differences they were at and the performance levels.
Here check this:
http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/391/18/

Note the score differences just on these two benches between those two cards and others from the 7900GS up to the 8800GTX's... mind blowing! But i'm sure you will love the results either way as your now joined in on the ranks of the DX10 and in line with the rest of us waiting on it and Vista!

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:17 am

Sava700 wrote:I haven't seen my GTX pull very much at all.. SLI shouldn't pull no more on Peak than 520watts and 700 Watt or better PSU with a 40 AMPs 12 Volts rail should do the trick for most modern systems.

I'm curious too Izzo on what the performance will set you at with those two in SLI cause from what I've read on reviews a single GTS against a GTX loses 30% horse power.. when I think your best investment would have been with a single GTX vs the GTS giving you just as much but costing you less. I went over the reviews for 2 weeks everywhere I could read and I just couldn't justify going with a GTS over the GTX at the cost differences they were at and the performance levels.
Here check this:
http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/391/18/

Note the score differences just on these two benches between those two cards and others from the 7900GS up to the 8800GTX's... mind blowing! But i'm sure you will love the results either way as your now joined in on the ranks of the DX10 and in line with the rest of us waiting on it and Vista!

Ya, might very well be ....we'll see what happens...

edit>1 GTX = 600.00
2 GTS's = 799.00 .....kind of a no brainer

KINGoFOOLS · Post by **KINGoFOOLS** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 8:30 am

Izzo wrote:Thermaltake Toughpower 750w

That should work perfect...im going to get the OCZ GameXStream 700W

Izzo wrote:What are you using to OC that card?

ntune http://www.nvidia.com/object/ntune_5.05.18.00.html Lets you turn up the fan speed also.

Izzo wrote:edit>That RAM still holdin' up on ya ok?

Still running good...

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 9:13 am

KINGoFOOLS wrote:That should work perfect...im going to get the OCZ GameXStream 700W

ntune http://www.nvidia.com/object/ntune_5.05.18.00.html Lets you turn up the fan speed also.

Still running good...

KINGoFOOLS · Post by **KINGoFOOLS** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 9:17 am

YARDofSTUF wrote:A friend of mine got an 8800GTX, not sure whats wrong but the system boots, but if he goes to play a game, watcha video ro view an intense myspace page the whole system reboots.

He called up support and looks like they're gonna send him a new card, for a single card it requires 30 Amps? Does that mean 60A for SLI?

Symptoms of not enough juice.

bad 3D performance
crashing games
spontaneous resetting PC
freezes during gameplay
PSU overload can cause it to break down

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:38 pm

KINGoFOOLS wrote:Symptoms of not enough juice.

bad 3D performance
crashing games
spontaneous resetting PC
freezes during gameplay
PSU overload can cause it to break down

PSU is 650watts, 4 12V rails that total to like 45A thats more than 30.

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:42 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:PSU is 650watts, 4 12V rails that total to like 45A thats more than 30.

All I know is mine has morethan enough juice to do teh job

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 12:45 pm

Izzo wrote:All I know is mine has morethan enough juice to do teh job

Thats a good thing.

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Fri Jan 12, 2007 1:58 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:Thats a good thing.

Ya, it's got 4 12v rails, is SLI ready and well I already threw it in my case......

KINGoFOOLS · Post by **KINGoFOOLS** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 4:49 am

I just orded another 8800 and a new PSU.

SiDeWiNdEr · Post by **SiDeWiNdEr** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 8:43 am

KINGoFOOLS wrote:I just orded another 8800 and a new PSU.

Your nuts. Is that going to bring your PPM up?

KINGoFOOLS · Post by **KINGoFOOLS** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 9:19 am

Finally a reveiw with 8800gts cards in SLI. http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=335&type=expert&pid=9

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 9:29 am

KINGoFOOLS wrote:I just orded another 8800 and a new PSU.

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 1:27 pm

UPS guy just showed up

KINGoFOOLS · Post by **KINGoFOOLS** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 1:33 pm

Izzo wrote:UPS guy just showed up

Well stop talking about it and stuff those cards in there! Hope you didnt forget the SLI card link thingy, my motherboard didnt come with one.

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 1:44 pm

KINGoFOOLS wrote:Well stop talking about it and stuff those cards in there! Hope you didnt forget the SLI card link thingy, my motherboard didnt come with one.

the SLI bridge?...why yes my brand new 680i came with one

I'm at work

....this will have to wait until I get home or come down with the sniffles

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 1:45 pm

KINGoFOOLS wrote:Well stop talking about it and stuff those cards in there! Hope you didnt forget the SLI card link thingy, my motherboard didnt come with one.

I was on your server kickin ass the other day.....you were idling so I didn't have opportunity to collect your tags

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 10:31 pm

Dude...omfg

KINGoFOOLS · Post by **KINGoFOOLS** » Mon Jan 15, 2007 11:50 pm

Night and day huh? Run 3dmark 06 im curious, im guessing around 13,000

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 9:29 am

KINGoFOOLS wrote:Night and day huh? Run 3dmark 06 im curious, im guessing around 13,000

11,018 first pass...with no overclocks on anything (cpu/gpu).....gonna wipe the drive and install fresh then bump em both up a bit

SLI setup was a snap...also gonna try some different drivers....had to download their new 3d 06' build ....

Ran 2142 for about an hour after .....ZOMG!

KINGoFOOLS · Post by **KINGoFOOLS** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 10:50 am

Izzo wrote:I was on your server kickin ass the other day.....you were idling so I didn't have opportunity to collect your tags

LOL, will never happen!

Who makes your cards? BFG evga etc.?

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 11:03 am

KINGoFOOLS wrote:LOL, will never happen!

Who makes your cards? BFG evga etc.?

EVGA

with the EVGA 680i

edit>I got about a 1,000 tags .....if I want 'em I'll get 'em :P

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 1:03 pm

Izzo wrote:11,018 first pass...with no overclocks on anything (cpu/gpu).....gonna wipe the drive and install fresh then bump em both up a bit

SLI setup was a snap...also gonna try some different drivers....had to download their new 3d 06' build ....

Ran 2142 for about an hour after .....ZOMG!

nice scores... whats the FPS on BF2 are you getting?

Hell 10,800 on 3dmark06 but over 180FPS on BF2 with a single GTX here baby!

GTS = water down

Izzo · Post by **Izzo** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 1:22 pm

Sava700 wrote:nice scores... whats the FPS on BF2 are you getting?

Hell 10,800 on 3dmark06 but over 180FPS on BF2 with a single GTX here baby!

GTS = water down

Haven't fired up BF2......2142 it ~80-100 depending on maps n chit ......everything was very crisp and detailed ...it was very cool ....

KINGoFOOLS · Post by **KINGoFOOLS** » Tue Jan 16, 2007 2:00 pm

Sava700 wrote:nice scores... whats the FPS on BF2 are you getting?

Hell 10,800 on 3dmark06 but over 180FPS on BF2 with a single GTX here baby!

GTS = water down

BFwho?

Clock those cards IZZO and make him eat his words.