Just a quickie,

Do you think it would be a waste to plant a 8800GTS into my rig??

Seeing as i cannot edit this message I have poted again...it may be useful to know that i have the following:

AMD 64 X2 4400+
2GB DDR400
ASUS NForce something or other (shamefulthat i have forgotten in know! )
+ the standard bits and bobs.

no way. This processor is fast as crazy. It performs up there with the GTX and in some cases better, so no, it will not bottleneck you. What are you OCing to?

I think he's wondering if his system is fast enough to justify using a video card as fast as the 8800GTS.

no i would say not, your performance will be fine although make sure the PSU is decent enough. what res are you playing at?

*strokes own X2 4400 lovingly*

I'll throw in my $0.02. This last weekend was a mad upgrade weekend. Got my GTS 512MB card on Friday, plunked it in to my E6300 (overclocked to 2.4GHz) system. Got 9800 on 3DMark06. Then on Saturday, I picked up an E8400 processor. Plunked it in, and went up to 12,000+. Nothing else changed.

I did not, however, benchmark a bunch of games, unfortunately.

Clint

I just bought the Nvidia 8800 GTS. It's the best card I've owned so far considered it's so cheap.

I'm very happy with mine, too... Very quiet, fast, came with Crysis... I figure it ended up being cheaper than buying a GT, since I was going to buy the game and a VGA cooler anyway...

Clint

Yes it WILL bottleneck. Quite a bit, but that doesn't mean performance will magically stop at an invisible wall, it'll keep increasing.


Tbh think 8800GT is more worth its money for your computer. Maybe get a aftermarket cooled one for your extra money.

Same here. Also came with a dual slot cooler, faster clocks, and 16 more SP!

I have a 320mb 8800gts, which used to run with E6600 until recently. After upgrading to E6850 I scored higher in 3dmark05 and 06, and experienced better frame rate while playing certain titles

here's a tricky one, explain what a bottleneck is, this should be interesting.

I will echo that... I always see a lot off posts such as this, folks will say "sure it will slow down, bottleneck, etc". How do you know??? have you used these same components, do you have a site that reflects these tests, with these exact components???

I would not hesitate to put a 512MB GTS in your rig. It depends on the resolution and games you play, but check out at higher res with fsaa things become GPU bound with an 8800GT on all these cpu's (COD4, UT3, Crysis):
http://firingsquad.com/hardware/$5 [...] /page5.asp

I would not put two 8800GTS 512MB cards in an X2 4400 rig though.

no ur system will be able to handle it. Sure it will slow the gpu down a bit but nothing huge

You couldn't have picked a better graphics card for your system, you put your money in the GPU which is where most of the demanding stuff is done, in the GPU.