So I bought a EVGA 8800GT SC card back in November last year and am coming to the end of my step-up window so enquired as to how much it would cost to step-up to a EVGA 8800GTS.
Now when I bought my 8800GT it was £184.99 (€246.53, $364) excluding tax and delivery. I keyed this in to the step-up calculator on EVGA’s website. I then selected the 8800GTS and it came back with a total step-up cost, including delivery of £93.41 (€124.47, $184). Now on EVGA’s website the difference between the 8800GT and the GTS is about £75 (€100, $148) (this includes the £9 (€12, $18) EVGA shipping fee) so I would still be paying a slight premium to step up.
So basically, is it worth it? I want to upgrade primarily because of the better cooler but does the £93.41 (€124.47, $184) extra equate to the same difference in performance?
What do you guys think?
One, more thing. Obviously the 8800GT is overclocked already and I've tried fiddling with it a bit to OC is futher but couldn't quite reach 700MHz on the GPU core speed. What sort of OC's could I expect from a stock EVGA 8800GTS? And then what difference would I see from this over the superclocked 8800GT?
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Rig:
Antec 900 Gaming Case
Vista 32-bit
Viewsonic VX824 (1280 x 1024)
Gigabyte GA-P35-S3 (Rev 1) Motherboard
Core2Duo E6600
Enermax Liberty 500W PSU
Crucial Ballistix 2GB DDR2 PC2-5300/667
WD 500G SATA2 WD5000AAKS HDD
EVGA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB Superclocked "Crysis Edition"
Now when I bought my 8800GT it was £184.99 (€246.53, $364) excluding tax and delivery. I keyed this in to the step-up calculator on EVGA’s website. I then selected the 8800GTS and it came back with a total step-up cost, including delivery of £93.41 (€124.47, $184). Now on EVGA’s website the difference between the 8800GT and the GTS is about £75 (€100, $148) (this includes the £9 (€12, $18) EVGA shipping fee) so I would still be paying a slight premium to step up.
So basically, is it worth it? I want to upgrade primarily because of the better cooler but does the £93.41 (€124.47, $184) extra equate to the same difference in performance?
What do you guys think?
One, more thing. Obviously the 8800GT is overclocked already and I've tried fiddling with it a bit to OC is futher but couldn't quite reach 700MHz on the GPU core speed. What sort of OC's could I expect from a stock EVGA 8800GTS? And then what difference would I see from this over the superclocked 8800GT?
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Rig:
Antec 900 Gaming Case
Vista 32-bit
Viewsonic VX824 (1280 x 1024)
Gigabyte GA-P35-S3 (Rev 1) Motherboard
Core2Duo E6600
Enermax Liberty 500W PSU
Crucial Ballistix 2GB DDR2 PC2-5300/667
WD 500G SATA2 WD5000AAKS HDD
EVGA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB Superclocked "Crysis Edition"