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9600GT vs 8800GT
Hi.
Been looking at upgrading my gfx card for a while, the 6600 is starting to creak just a tad and have narrowed the choice down to either the 9600GT or 8800GT. There's only about £15 difference in the cost of the cards so is there anyone on here who'd recommend the 9600 over the 8800? TIA, -- Deeg |
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On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 20:33:38 GMT, Deeg wrote:
Hi. Been looking at upgrading my gfx card for a while, the 6600 is starting to creak just a tad and have narrowed the choice down to either the 9600GT or 8800GT. There's only about £15 difference in the cost of the cards so is there anyone on here who'd recommend the 9600 over the 8800? TIA, doing hd video get 9600, if not get 8800. |
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"Deeg" wrote in message ... Hi. Been looking at upgrading my gfx card for a while, the 6600 is starting to creak just a tad and have narrowed the choice down to either the 9600GT or 8800GT. There's only about £15 difference in the cost of the cards so is there anyone on here who'd recommend the 9600 over the 8800? It's not that the 9600GT is a bad card, it's just that the 8800GT is just better by at least 10% or more in overall in newer DX10 and DX9 at resolutions in excess of 1440x900 and 1280x1024. In the synthetic 3DMark06, it gets close to a typical 8800GT score. The larger the monitor and resolution, the greater the edge the 8800GT has. There's lots of reviews out there, and some have the edge closer than others. I find it best to compare demanding games because newer 3D games are definitely heading into Crysis like territory. There's a decrease in power consumption, and HD decoding offloads the CPU more than the 88XX series, but that's it. The 8800GT isn't exactly a power hog, and taxing the CPU more in HD decoding is scarcely a crime. Neither are in the same league HD38XX series for offloading the CPU in HD decoding. No matter if a game is DX9 or DX10, the 8800GT is better at it by a real margin. On a large monitor at native resolution and in a DX10 title, the margin is not just 10%. Don't be fooled by the naming convention, the 9600GT is not a next gen card. It compares more to an HD3870 in DX10 titles in Vista than an 8800GT. http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=724&p=0 |
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Neither are in the same league HD38XX series for offloading the CPU in HD
decoding. Should read: "Neither are in the same league as the HD38XX series....." |
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Pardon my confusion, but I believe your older 6600 card uses an AGP socket
on your motherboard, and the 9600GT you are looking at uses the latest generation PCI-E 2.0 socket. (The 8800GT uses the PCI-E 1.0 socket.) I believe you have a compatibility problem with your motherboard's video socket. -- --DaveW "Deeg" wrote in message ... Hi. Been looking at upgrading my gfx card for a while, the 6600 is starting to creak just a tad and have narrowed the choice down to either the 9600GT or 8800GT. There's only about £15 difference in the cost of the cards so is there anyone on here who'd recommend the 9600 over the 8800? TIA, -- Deeg |
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"DaveW" wrote in message . .. Pardon my confusion, but I believe your older 6600 card uses an AGP socket on your motherboard, and the 9600GT you are looking at uses the latest generation PCI-E 2.0 socket. (The 8800GT uses the PCI-E 1.0 socket.) I believe you have a compatibility problem with your motherboard's video socket. Never heard of a 6600GT PCI-E card? Or do you think the OP is as clueless as you? Also, DaveW, the PCI-E 1.0 and 2.0 "socket", as you put it, are one and the same. |
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"Augustus" wrote in message news:fZDCj.88569$w57.44776@edtnps90... "DaveW" wrote in message . .. Pardon my confusion, but I believe your older 6600 card uses an AGP socket on your motherboard, and the 9600GT you are looking at uses the latest generation PCI-E 2.0 socket. (The 8800GT uses the PCI-E 1.0 socket.) I believe you have a compatibility problem with your motherboard's video socket. Never heard of a 6600GT PCI-E card? ....or is it a 6800?! http://groups.google.com/group/alt.c...219a08fb646a17 |
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...or is it a 6800?!
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.c...219a08fb646a17 Yeah, he seems confused about that. But he definitely says it's a PCI-E board. And DaveW is still an idiot. |
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On Sat, 15 Mar 2008 01:52:16 GMT, "Fishface" ?
wrote: "Augustus" wrote in message news:fZDCj.88569$w57.44776@edtnps90... "DaveW" wrote in message . .. Pardon my confusion, but I believe your older 6600 card uses an AGP socket on your motherboard, and the 9600GT you are looking at uses the latest generation PCI-E 2.0 socket. (The 8800GT uses the PCI-E 1.0 socket.) I believe you have a compatibility problem with your motherboard's video socket. Never heard of a 6600GT PCI-E card? ...or is it a 6800?! http://groups.google.com/group/alt.c...219a08fb646a17 You're right it is a 6800. Still what's 200 between friends eh? Thanks for pointing out my mistake. -- Deeg |
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