9800 GX2 Is out !

**TylerDurden** · Mar 18th, 2008, 07:50 PM

You all may remember a thread i made concerning which video card to purchase.
viewtopic.php?f=3&t=260

At the time, the Geforce 9600 had just came out. I was going to buy one until i came across a thread at the Nvidia Forums. The people over there said that the new 9600 wasn't anything but an over clocked 8800gts. Meaning, you are better off getting a 8800gts stock, or an over clocked one. Everyone over there said to wait out for the new 9800GX2. Which shares a few of the same things found in the Ultra card, but with better specs. (Ultra is looked as the most expensive and best Nvidia card)

Well, now that the 9800 is out, people at the Nvidia forums are going nuts for balls, and basically this is what i've found out.

"ts a streamlined g92 sandwich...

Its the same thing they did with the 7900gx2.

Not all that revolutionary. If they can get the drivers and scaling right this time it could be worth waiting for a price drop to get."

"Fairly disappointed in the whole 9xxx series. The GX2 is nice, but yes, they're essentially just two cards Sli. I'm very disappointed in seeing such low clocks tbh. I was really expecting to see something along the lines of twice the raw power of a 8800 ultra, not 2 8800 gts's. Guess we'll see how their g200 series will be, they're defenatly making a GX2 v of it, I'm sure!"

A pretty good review.
http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/03/18/ ... x2_review/

Nvidia Forums
http://forums.slizone.com/index.php?showtopic=18268&st=

So basically, in two weeks iam going to buy a video card, and when thoes two weeks are up, my choices are between the 8800GTS, and GX2.

Gx2 on new egg for around $600.00. For that much money, it better be working, and better be worth it.
The core clock on this card is 600MHz, with a Stream Processor of 256. Memory Size is 1GB.Memory Clock is 2000MHz.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814130338

8800GTS over clocked version on newegg for $270.00.
Core clock-670MHz. Stream Processors-128. Memory Clock-1940MHz. Memory Size- 512MB.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814130325

If you are like me, and have a Nforce mobo that can support 2 sli cards, or 3 sli cards, then wouldn't getting the best card for your money, that is sure to work, and has been tested for at least one year, sound like the better choice ? For Pretty much the same price as one new 9 series card, i could get two gts's. Although, i guess if the new 9 card works out, you could get two of thoes and be set.

What do you all think ?

**Mr. Burns** · Mar 18th, 2008, 08:40 PM

Maybe this is just me, but I would much rather go with a fast single card than go with two cards in SLI. With two cards you have twice the power (and money) for less than twice the performance, and it's often quite a bit less than twice the performance. The 8800's are fantastic cards and have been for quite a while - just make sure you get one on the G92 core. They're better chips than the ones on the first series of 8800's were.

**WHEATLEY007** · Mar 19th, 2008, 04:21 PM

Originally Posted by Mr. Burns

Maybe this is just me, but I would much rather go with a fast single card than go with two cards in SLI.

Thats why I deliberately got a good mobo, but with slots for only 1 card. So that I'll never pine for another card. SLI just seems like a waste of moolah to me - specialy when you use common sense in your purchasing.

**TylerDurden** · Mar 19th, 2008, 09:09 PM

IMO the Nforce SLI mobos are good mobos even without the SLI tech.

I don't know if any other boards alllow you to do this, but the SLI mobos give you user friendly access to over clocking your CPU, etc. They also have a design that allows heat to move off the board and into a certain direction.

For $180.00.

Anyone think thats a rip off ?

/me takes out knife

lol

**Mr. Burns** · Mar 19th, 2008, 09:17 PM

Originally Posted by TylerDurden

IMO the Nforce SLI mobos are good mobos even without the SLI tech.

I don't know if any other boards alllow you to do this, but the SLI mobos give you user friendly access to over clocking your CPU, etc. They also have a design that allows heat to move off the board and into a certain direction.

For $180.00.

Anyone think thats a rip off ?

/me takes out knife

lol

Any decent motherboard with most chipsets will allow that type of control. There are several designed around Intel chipsets that are really good for overclocking.

**TylerDurden** · Mar 19th, 2008, 09:27 PM

DON'T MAKE ME CRY ON YOU !

/me pulls out tear

ok ok so check THIS OUT :

On the nvidia forums, this guy named luke is the computer guru over there. He is ALL ABOUT one video card rigs. So he was saying in these forums (links below) that the 8800GTS is the shit ! When over clocked, he says "omgomg"

http://forums.vr-zone.com/showthread.php?t=212326
http://forums.slizone.com/index.php?showtopic=12845

**WHEATLEY007** · Mar 20th, 2008, 08:06 AM

Tyler - It seems to me that from your recent posts, that you not only desperate for a good card (or two) but the cash is burning a hole in your pocket. Stop worrying and spending so much time trawling the tech pages. Surely theres a better use of your time. Playing games, hanging out with mates - wanking even ?

Whatever you buy, just as night follows day, there will be a bigger and better card released a short while after you buy one. Just set yourself a strict budget and get the best you can for that budget at a particular time. You'll enoy playing that new game you've promised yourself to go with that new card, wether you get a 8800gts, a 9600 or a 9800.

**AFG** · Mar 20th, 2008, 05:28 PM

It's too expensive, and right now you can get the same performance and save $100 by buying two 8800GTs and running them in SLI. Same performance as in 1600x1200, if u go higher then the 9800 might be a little better, but only a little better.

Mar 21st, 2008, 07:45 AM

Originally Posted by WHEATLEY007

Originally Posted by Mr. Burns

Maybe this is just me, but I would much rather go with a fast single card than go with two cards in SLI.

Thats why I deliberately got a good mobo, but with slots for only 1 card. So that I'll never pine for another card. SLI just seems like a waste of moolah to me - specialy when you use common sense in your purchasing.

If i remember correctly you have the same mobo as me GA-P35C-DS3R,yes thier nice mobo's.Mine's a revision 2.1 do you have any issues with the Realtek RTl8168/811 PCI-Gigabyte Ethernet NIC?

Edit:sorry for off topic.