Have 7950GX2, should I get 8800GTX?

I have a 7950GX2, came with my PC.

I'm getting my Vista Home Premium upgrade disc soon, and obviously this has DX10.

Should I sell my 7950GX2 and get an 8800GTX? Is DirectX 10 going to be worth it? Will the DX10 games released as the year goes on make it worth my while?

As my 7950GX2 is only a couple of months old, I reckon I could get £200-£250 for it on eBay. I can get an 8800GTX from eBay for about £350.

What do you think?

Cheers

No keep your 7950GX2 until a)you can't play games that you like to play.
b)if that doesn't happen then whenever the dx10 game you want comes out then buy a dx10 card. otherwise you'll will have pretty much wasted money since your current card is more than capable right now. the method i suggested will ensure that you pay the smallest amount for dx10 rather than paying alot right now only to find out it was twice as cheap when a dx10 game you actually want to play.

Vista does not require a dx10 card to enable its features,any low range graphics card can do that...

It's a bit like asking "I've got a car that does 150mph. But there's a new one that does 160mph. Should I sell my slow car and buy the new faster one? The new fast one also has cup holders for holding 1-litre bottles, which hardly anybody uses now, but they will be in the next 2-3 years."

IMHO, the nVidia marketing machine has done a damned impressive job of hyping the 8800 series. I saw the GTX in action the other day... Ok, so it looks good... but it's not THAT good... You can build a whole system for the same price as one card!

Not worth getting a "DX10" card now when you have a card like 7950GX2. If you were building a system from scratch, then going for a 8800 is worth it, since it's top-line now, nothing to do with DX10.

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Short term - absolutely nothing.

Long Term - Nice looking graphics. How nicer? Don't know.

That's terrible advice...

I never said anything about the new 8800GTS 340mb performance, i said the advice you gave was terrible cause why would he spend $300 on a new graphics card when his current one will suffice. if he was playing oblivion and said he was getting lagging fps then and he needed a better card then yeah get it.

But he didn't say that, he asked would be worth it to go to DX10, all of which there is no point to buy a card simple because it is a DX10 card right now cause obviously the operating system isn't even officially out yet, and also no games fully developed around dx10 are even out, let alone a game that he would like to play.

Now if he said he needed more performance right now then yes any 8800 series card would be the best to get right now as its the best performing DX9 card on the market.

The best and most logical thing to do would be, since he already has a very sufficient graphics card and didn't complain of needing more performance, to wait until the DX10 game he wants to play comes out, at that point he will have waited till the latest possible date until he would ever use DX10, this would ensure that he saves the most money. Instead of spending money now, when he wouldn't even need the DX10 feature, when he could get it for possible half the price later. On top of all of that by the time the DX10 game comes out that he wants to even play there will be ATi's new card, and nVidia's 8900 series, all of which means lower prices and more performance.

So yeah thats a better idea. No need to waste money now. Now if had a under-performing 7800GT or something else like that then it would be very obvious that if he had the money to get an 8800 series as they offer the best performance right now.

lol dont waste your time trying to sell that baby. get rid of it when it stops working.

many still have 2+ days though, its ebay, people sell dirty tissues on ebay and still make money off it

I have seen both things being sold insanely low priced and high priced, its all about how you market it and how much hype the product is about.

If the op makes it seem like its a deal someone can't miss with the bidding starting at $100 going on for almost a week, I'm pretty sure many people will jump on the oppertunity, especially if the op boasts about every single advant the gx2 has and does not say a word about the newer cards, kinda sneaky, but you can sell almost anything that way

That is very true, but if you have something with twicve the ram and the same gpu with the same clocks, then it might be worth the difference, only problem is that most manufacturers usually only put gddr2 memory in if they double the amount, and anyway, its the size of the bit path and the amount of pipelines that matter any

So I think that if the op advertises it as the only 1gb ram card on the market, it will sell very well, even if the 8800gtx creams it for a bit more, especially in sli, as what you said is correct, some n00b is going to say, well this card only has 768 mb ram while this card has 1gb, I'll get the gb card instead and it will be a great deal at only $600, because the 768mb card is the same price

m,ay point exactly, ebay allows people to get their money's worth from old junk, and offer's smart people toget great deals (i bought some very expensive software-macromedia studio 8-for only $100)

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