GTX or GTS 512?

hi,
i work with dell 27 1920x1200.
what to get? GTX or GTS 512?
i'm going to buy a 680 or 780 MB so i can go SLI. i do not need 3way coz i need money to eat...
these is y i think about the 680.(asus striker Extreem or BFG 680i or Gigabyte's- you can recmmend on that too).

i thought about buying 1 VGA card now & one later this year when the prices will go down more.

the pc is for gaming.

the GTS 512 is cheaper but probably in a year from now i'll be able to get one.
the GTX is stronger for this resolution for all i know, & i think it will be hard to get in a year from now...

what do you think guys?

thanks!

Dor.

No SLI on X38 though.

The GTS 512MB cheaper than the GTX and performs almost as well, if not better in some benchmarks. (As said before, it's also cooler and requires less power)

Now, the best SLI solution would be a 780i board (if you're going to use a 45nm chip) otherwise you can go 680i, and two 8800GT's. It performs well at the resolution you want while allowing you to still have some money to eat.

Here's my solution:

eVGA 8800 GTS 512 MB and step up to the 9800 GTX when it comes out.

Ah damn, I didn't think about that, but the eVGA stepup lets you trade in a card for a newer one. Basically you have 90 days to move up to a better card. No idea of it's offered outside the US, but if it is it's a great deal.

Otherwise, I'd get an 8800 GTS.

say,
what LCD do you use.
can you tell me ur preformance in some games?

Priced cheaper like for us in the USA, I'd surely go GTS too (or dual GT). But I don't agree going GTX would do nothing over the GTS 512MB. I can give you plenty of links where the GTX pulls ahead at his resolution. But that said, either card will start to struggle maxed at that res as time goes on like it does in Crysis now. So it's smart to think ahead toward dual cards or the next Gen to stay with that res.

One thought... I don't think either card will definately be available new in one year, and there will be more GTX's used than GTS 512's I'd think. But that wouldn't make me spend more on the GTX. If you find a good price later on the GTS, grab it. if instead upgrading to a better card makes sense, do that.

i would imagine nvidia whould want to get the 9 series out asap cos of ati releasing the 3870x2

it depends - i would go with the 512

the 8800gtx/ultras gives only slightly better performance

you be better off with 2x GTS 512

the G92 chip looks much nicer the graphics are crisper and the colors more ati like.

Yeah I'm going to go with colt's suggestion on the 3870X2. I just switched from a 7900GS to a 2900Pro and the IQ is much better on my ATI card then it ever was on the Nvidia card, in both 2d and 3d. The drivers have a lot more options than the Nvidia Vista drivers too and I can actually display in 720p instead of 1219x688 because of Nvidia overscan issues.

They can be had for $450 MSRP and there's been some good links floating around that have them for only $380. Either way you go, it's either as much or less then the GTX.

I have the 8800GTX and it ought to be able to handle most games at your resolution although you can pretty much rule out crysis. I play a lot of games at 2048x1536, performance varies from game to game. Personally I want more power than I have from a single GTX.

Unfortunately the game I play most doesnt support crossfire or sli so I cant gain anything by going to SLI or the 3870x2. Im hoping something with some decent power with a single gpu comes out soon.

If I were buying a new card today it would be the 512 GTS for sure the GTX is 14 month old technology and the performance difference it shows isnt worth the price bump (at least in uk prices)

You do need to make sure the games you want to play respond well to crossfire or sli before you choose your card. The 3870x2 looks good for most games that work well with crossfire at the moment, unfortunately for me with the game I play most it would be a significant step back in performance - If it could run it at all. You have to disable SLI \ crossfire in LOTRO in order to play the game properly at all...

i think i'll go with the 780i chipset couse of the PCIe2.0 & the better support for the 45nm CPUs.

but about the 3870x2- it's a greate card.
i love ATI! AMD ruin them!
the problem is that most games support SLI & with CF there's a lot of problems.
also- there are more problems with CF with the 3870x2.
if in the relevant future the Drivers will fix that, i'll go x38 or x48...


i saw a lot of reviews about VGA cards...
probably i'll wait a month or 2, going with the 780 & maybe a new card from Nvidia 9 series maybe if there's any...

thanks a lot guys!