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iluvgillgill
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n°1799702
03-19-2008 at 03:00:13 PM

Its hard to deny the GX2 is the most powerful graphics card to date.But would you get the 9800GTX for lower price or would you still trade in for the king of 3D graphics?

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n°1799707
03-19-2008 at 03:11:12 PM

I rather pay more to get more performance.

But if I was on a tighter budget, I'll choose the cheaper version. But right now I'll choose the GX2 over than the GTX.


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n°1799710
03-19-2008 at 03:35:55 PM

Neither card makes me want to upgrade; I'll keep my overclocked 8800GTX until Nvidia releases a real upgrade.

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n°1799714
03-19-2008 at 03:51:17 PM

There is no 9800GTX...yet. Cannot make this comparison until we know more about the 9800GTX.

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n°1799718
03-19-2008 at 03:56:48 PM

Waspy wrote :

There is no 9800GTX...yet. Cannot make this comparison until we know more about the 9800GTX.


Exactly right.

Besides the GX2 is just for Nvidia to say they have the highest performing single card. (2) 8800GTS 512's in SLI would beat the thing hands down and cost much less doing it.

The rumors for the GTX don't look that impressive, but we need proof of this.


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n°1799724
03-19-2008 at 04:14:23 PM

I'm still wondering if the 9800GX2 will work in a P35 mobo or any single PCI-E 16x mobo for that matter. Like Jay said, two 8800gts are less, so if you have an SLI motherboard I don't know why you would consider it unless you're planning on throwing $1200-1400 into your graphics cards for Quad-SLI.

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n°1799726
03-19-2008 at 04:23:45 PM

San Pedro wrote :

I'm still wondering if the 9800GX2 will work in a P35 mobo or any single PCI-E 16x mobo for that matter.

Yes it should. That is one of the reasons why they had the 7950GX2 so you could have SLI without an SLI mobo.


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n°1799747
03-19-2008 at 05:51:18 PM

Exactly but rumors before GX2 was realised was same like GTX so dont look that way...
I think that 9800GTX will be best bang for the buck if price is true (349$)!

 


Ultra porformance for much less money thats sond good still wee need proof :sol:

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n°1799796
03-19-2008 at 08:40:37 PM

Undying89 wrote :

Exactly but rumors before GX2 was realised was same like GTX so dont look that way...
I think that 9800GTX will be best bang for the buck if price is true (349$)!


Unless it is just an OCed GTS. Then it's pointless.


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n°1799825
03-19-2008 at 09:59:18 PM

Heyyou27 wrote :

Neither card makes me want to upgrade; I'll keep my overclocked 8800GTX until Nvidia releases a real upgrade.



If 9800gx2 was $450 it would be a real upgrade, its 60% faster than a Gtx in alot of popular games, but its price and Sli's brillant performance is killing it...

Nvidia have shot themselves in the foot with their Sli performance, they have made it too good lol and all single cards will have a mammoth task now trying to compete...

Like the much talked about Gt200 will have a hard time beating the 9800gx2, at best being 20% faster imo, what are people going to say then?

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n°1799879
03-20-2008 at 12:12:25 AM

Just get two of those in one card and SLI again ...

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n°1799910
03-20-2008 at 01:00:33 AM

Ok silly question, but all the reviews I have seen ( below) have been done with a QX9650 @ stock ( 3.0ghz)

http://en.expreview.com/2008/03/19 [...] 800GX2/12/

Would the Q6700 I have @ 3.20ghz, be close to a QX9650 @ stock?



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n°1799912
03-20-2008 at 01:03:57 AM

I think the difference is about 3-7% clock for clock, so it could be a bit faster


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n°1799919
03-20-2008 at 01:19:32 AM

How much do you think 20% faster?

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n°1799924
03-20-2008 at 01:30:07 AM

Equal to or a bit faster


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