9600GT vs 8800GT

If you follow slickdeals.net there have been a lot of deals for video cards lately, I missed out on the 8800 GTS (G92) for $180, these are the best current deals, which do you think is the better buy? I have a 22 inch ws monitor (1680x1050). Thanks for your opinions.

What Dos said....

Mind, 8800GTS on 19" would be nice too for extra eye candy.

Is that 8800GT of the 256MB or 512MB variety?

^ good point, avoid the 256MB 8800GT. Not worth much considering other cards/prices out now.

Link me to this cheap card please. I am purchasing one in coming days.

is PNY known for making good cards?

Well I was originally going to get the evga from newegg, but this price just seems too good to pass up.

Ok based on history, do you think the 8800 will drop in price this week?

8800gt 512 unless you're hell bent on saving $30.

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I was wondering how long it would take the Monkey to show up.

same ^

Quite a good rule of thumb I thought, for the time being at least.

8800GT is better choice in my opinion than 9600GT...
Card is just faster in high resolotions and it will hold longer than 9600 soo...

Compare the two cards based upon actual tests here:

http://www.hothardware.com/Article [...] ut/?page=9

Crysis @ 1680 x 1050
8800 GT - 22.88
9600 GT - 21.71
9600 GT SLI - 37.70

Great first hand story there. Thanks for sharing. Builds a little more confidence in them as a graphics card manufacturer.

eh, I would say an 8800GTS 512MB for the 22" too, especially if you want to run it at the full native res. But yes, thats a good way of putting it . As far as I know PNY is not that great of a company for graphics cards (Though a lot of people have still had good luck with their cards). They should stick to making cheap flash drives IMO! Stick to good companies that come factory overclocked, it's generally worth it. BFG Technologies is personally my favorite company for graphics cards, but XFX and eVga are good too. EVGA is probably the most popular for a reason... though I personally dislike them, and would rather spend the extra $$ to support BFG . EVGA's cards are really ugly too imo . XFX is up there, but they often make lots of different models for a single chip, which vary in quality and factory overclocking. Many of their cards have fans that run always at 100%, which is loud and a waste, so I would keep an eye out for the ones that have variable fans! I don't like XFX either... because their headquarters is in Hong Kong... whereas BFG and EVGA is in California. I'm really picky .

EDIT: WTF all of BFGs 8800 cards went up by like $50 today on newegg. Nooo I was gonna buy a 8800GTS 512MB from them! Looks like an EVGA is yer poison.

I trust your quoted figures.

Unfortunately I have been trained to trust published benchmarks as much as I trust CNN and Fox News.

Benchmarks serve their purpose, but they are not an accurate representation of how pleasurable your gaming experience will be,

I find CNN and Fox to be worlds apart on opinion but there's really no difference in respect to what they report as fact. As far as I know, they have both been right about who won each election for governor in all 50 states, the guy they said won the presidential election does sit in the white house, and they each correctly reported who won the last world series as far back as I can remember.

A game benchmark is simply a "section" or a game or barometer of how long it takes to play that section. These sections are chosen to give as wide as possible set of conditions given that the benchmark must be limited to a reasonable length of time to complete. As such, if a particular card or driver particularly benefits from certain individual coding techniques, that game may put a slight weight to the card it favors. But, to my mind, a Crysis benchmark gives a pretty good indication of how fast a card will run Crysis, and AutoCAD benchmark gives a pretty good indication of how fast a card will run AutoCAD. So I wouldn't say that one benchmark test is something to base a selection on. But when ya compare two cards in 20 benchmarks ond one wins 19 outta 20, well to me, with a 19 to 1 advantage, I'd say it's pretty much a done deal as to which one is going to be fastest in most situations.

Of course, speed is not the only criteria to judge by. Back in the old days, I'd put Diamond cards in game machines and Matrox cards in multimedia machines as the Matrox cards had better color accuracy, but were generally slower than the Diamond's.....so if the main job was photo editing, the Matrox made more sense. CAD boxes on the other hand seemed to work best with gaming cards unless of course you were able to spring for one of the $2500+ imaging monsters. As for a certain web sites mandate that only subjective testing should be used, to me that just seems an excuse to play favorites.

No its the one with a pet monkey that was imported for a pet that carried a disease created as a biological weapon that eventually becomes airborne and infects a whole town that a few military officials want to firebomb in order to keep it a secret.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outbreak_(movie)

84" = 9800gx2


24" = 8800gts


22" = 8800gt


19"= 9600gt

He was and Morgan Freeman who is one of my fav actors

8800GT will certainly last longer than 9600gt.

say you get six months' extra use before the card has to be got rid of plus better performance compared to 9600GT for now .

4850!!!!

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