Chalking it up to the 8800gts gods.. inspect please

[lamagra1913]

so I have seen nothing but amazing reviews about the 8800gts and everyone saying you might as well might the bullet now and be good for 4 years.

here are my specs.
hard drives covered

Ultra Wizard Tower

eVGA 640-P2-N821-AR GeForce 8800GTS 640MB 320-bit GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Card - Retail

CORSAIR XMS2 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail

Motherboard unsure of need help!

PSU unsure need help!

DVD-ROM probably liteon link me as well

Maybe another fan?

I will not be overclocking

Thanks for you help!

 

[apt403]

Whats your budget? What parts, if any, are you going to be reusing? For the mobo i would get either an Asus P5B-E or a Gigabyte DS3. For the psu i would get either the 500w Enermax Liberty or the 550w Antec NeoHE.

 

[lamagra1913]

I would want to keep it around a little under 1400.

I have a sata and ide hard drive and a psu that I will be gutting.

My PSU is 500w but I have heard that I should prolly go higher than that if using 8800gts

 

[facedownwh]

Whats your budget? What parts, if any, are you going to be reusing? For the mobo i would get either an Asus P5B-E or a Gigabyte DS3. For the psu i would get either the 500w Enermax Liberty or the 550w Antec NeoHE.

Don't get the NEOHE with an Asus P5B-E! I'm 99% sure they will not be compatible, unless these issues are officially resolved between Antec and Asus. It didn't work with my P5N-E!

 

[haywood]

I have a 8800GTS, and a P5B-E with an E6400. OC'd to a comfortable 2.8 using a OCZ GameXStream 600. Rock solid stable.

 

[lamagra1913]

I would want to keep it around a little under 1400.

I have a sata and ide hard drive and a psu that I will be gutting.

My PSU is 500w but I have heard that I should prolly go higher than that if using 8800gts

 

[lamagra1913]

Is the 8800gts really worth the $$$ over the x1950 xt?

also what about this mobo? It has sli
link mobo

 

[haywood]

YES!

New board, there are a couple of reviews out there. SLI is a waste of money unless you are running a huge monitor at a minimum 1600x1200.

 

[facedownwh]

That mobo's worked very well for me so far. Pretty liberal with overclocking. I think it can be a little quirky though. It depends on which one you get. Mine was fine. Others aren't experiencing the same thing. Little finicky with RAM too.

 

[gmoon]

NEC 18X DVD±R DVD Burner With 12X DVD-RAM Write Black E-IDE / ATAPI Model 7170A-0B - OEM $28.99

COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 CAC-T05-UW Black Aluminum Bezel, SECC ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail $50

Western Digital Caviar SE WD2500JS 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM $70

SCEPTRE X20WG-Naga Black 20.1" 5ms (GTG) DVI Widescreen LCD Monitor - Retail $240 plus another $40 dollar rebate

eVGA 640-P2-N825-AR GeForce 8800GTS 640MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 SUPERCLOCKED HDCP Video Card - Retail $410

APEVIA ATX-AS680W-BL ATX12V / EPS12V 680W Power Supply - Retail $100

ASUS P5N-E SLI LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 650i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard - Retail $135

ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler - Retail $50

Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 Allendale 1.8GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80557E4300 - Retail $180 plus free GR:AW

mushkin 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model 996533 - Retail $260 (worth it for overclocking their D9 micron chips)

all for about $1500 with a monitor. Pretty good deal with awesome overclocking and a good case with a good cooler thats easy to install.

 

[NamelessMC]

Okay first of all, the only game where you really need an 8800 to get great performance is in Oblivion.

Don't listen for one second to ANY pretentious wanna-be know-it-all that tries to tell you, "If you want to play Crysis, buy an 8800".

The latest benchmark for Crysis has TWO 8800 GTX's in SLI and struggles past 1280x1024 in DX10 code maxed out.

That's nearly $1100 set up just on video-cards alone, and the GTX is considerably better than the GTS.

If you're dumping $350 into an 8800GTS, don't expect it to last 3-4 years.

Max settings? Maybe it'll last 4-6 months. Once Crysis comes out, there's already a game in the market you can't run at max settings.

Half the people here actually own an 8800, and half of those people, have been unimpressed with the performance they got after buying it.

 

[bruce555]

There isn't a driver that fully supports SLI in DX10. The single 8800 GTX worked quite well at CES. What would you rather believe/look at. The fact that all of Crysis's designer team said that their game worked well with one GTX at 60+ FPS at a respectable resolution or VR-Zone's Link to a Asian website that is showing that SLI doesn't work yet for a game that isn't released.

Did you ever wonder why at CES Crysis wasn't played on a SLI system. Of course the developers want to show their game in all it's glory. If that leads to them having a dual card system that runs DX10 , then they'd use it, but they couldn't. They didn't have R600 so they had to use the only DX10 card available, 8800 GTX. Think people, think. Everything with a grain of salt. As if 8800 GTX in SLI can only run at 1024x768!

Edit: Wrote that too quick, I sound like a monkey.

 

[bruce555]

Just from the Inq:

"A DirectX 10 driver supporting Geforce 8800 cards and DirectX 10 in SLI mode will be available sometime in "the future". "

 

[methimpikehoses]

I have an evga 8800gts and it's sweet. Medieval 2 looks awesome, and Oblivion looks awesome. In 6 months, there will be another GPU that will be better, and in a year and six months, there will be a gpu that will put it to shame. But if you play Oblivion or games with oblivion requirements for the next four years, you will be set! Of course, the games will probably change in 4 years... just think of the games that were coming out in Jan 03. That was a while ago, technologically speaking.

Also, my sweet 8800gts is powered by a nmediapc 500W PSU. It is slightly overclocked, but is running fine. The GTS sucks a lot of power, but less than the GTX. And get a 20" monitor +. I got the 19", and the resolution is 1440 x 900... I should have bucked up for bigger and better resolution.

Whatever you decide, don't sweat it too much and enjoy. :mrgreen: