Graphics Card Decision

All your solutions should work for that resolution but it is going to be your decision how much money you spend

The ideal would be two 9800GTX's or 8800gts g92's in sli. The 9800gx2 is overpriced and will be consistently beaten by the previously mentioned graphics. 2 8800 gt's would also be superior price perfomance wise if your on a budget. The 1gb 8800gt is a gimmick, don't get it.

Hrmmm yea I forgot about 9800 GTX, any idea how much that is going to cost? SLI on that might be a good idea providing it doesnt cost waht the 8800GTX's are right now. I'd really like to keep the cost down, but I mean I'll be getting a bitching Intel system for about 200-250 so I don't mind dishing out some more cash for some graphics horsepower.

9800gtx will be king.but i will wait for gt200 to come out!lol

yeah i was surprise 9800gtx and 8800gts only come with 512mb.shame

i wish they come standard 1gb.i know the gt have 1gb onboard.but the gpu is lacking abit.

And itll oc waay better without the heat issues

Yea I started thinking again and 9800 GTX might not be the way to go. I remembered that the 8800GTX is 384-bit and 768 MB in memory, meaning that it maybe slower but who knows how that extra bandwidth translates yet? I wish that review would have compared the 8800GTX but they only did the 8800GT and the 9800GX2. I wihs they'd just add the 8800GTX to see how it compares.

For ultra high res, AA, and shader settings, go with the good ol 8800GTX's.

From www.enthusiast.hardocp.com
Talking about memory performance of the 9800 GX2 compared to the old 8800GTX, very interesting.

"Where Did My Memory Go?


We feel that the use of 512MB of RAM and its more narrow bus per GPU on the GeForce 9800 GX2 is a bottleneck, especially when running Quad SLI. Four of these GPUs are very powerful, with an incredible amount of shader power. The shader performance exists here to push pixels at extremely high resolutions and in-game settings and AA settings. However, the storage space isn’t there to support the high resolutions and AA settings that four GPUs are capable of pushing. That combined with the narrow 256-bit memory bus means the GPU shader performance is way out of balance with the storage and memory bandwidth supporting each GPU. This was proven with GeForce 8800 GTX SLI (2 GPUs, but backed by 768MB of RAM and 384-bit memory bus) allowing higher settings than Quad SLI, and smoother more consistent performance."