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| Quote : I have a 7800gt @ 480/1160 and I was planning on upgrading to something much better. I was looking at the 8800GTS, but I am having second thoughts since it is so expensive and power hungry. I know my PSU is big enough for it, but if I am not planning on upgrading to vista until SP1. My question is: If I have a 7800GT and I want the best framerates for the money in mostly just source engine games, which video card is most worth the money:
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Howdy. Honestly you still have one of the best cards you can get. Unless you go all the way to the 8800GTX you wont see much difference that "justifys" the money difference. I would save my bucks for the 8800gtx honestly. Your 7800gt is a great card still. UNLESS you sell that card and use that money towards your new card.
That does seem kind of low for that card and cpu, considering with my cheep setup (3500+ rad.9700) i can get similar fps, but do you have HDR on?
But as of now if anything I think the drop in your fps may either be a driver problem or an issue your cpu somehow... source games are really cpu intensive. Am i wrong about that processor being fairly good for source games?
But from my experience even when i had my x1950pro i still didn't get all that "great" of fps when HDR was set on, but that was @ 1680x1050...
Sorry for my lack of solutions, just nothing really jumps out at me.
One thing I know for sure though is that you should really wait a while before thinking about getting a new gpu because at that res. your card shouldn't be bottlenecking anything, I think your good, at least until prices start to come down more.
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