8800 GTS (G92) 1024 mb 730 mhz core 369.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] s%2b1%2bgb
 
9800 GTX 512 mb 675 core 329.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814130339
 
8800 GTX 768 mb  289.99
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814130072
 
Im willing to overclock, i will be running 1680 x 1050 and would like to raise AA and AF which is why i like the higher amounts of vram. Basically from what i can see in terms of performance the Palit GTS 1 gb would be the best choice, now i just want to know what u guys think.

hmm, I never knew they made a gts g92 with 1024mb ram

I personally haven't seen a review of a 8800gts 1gb model, so I'm not sure how it compares to the 512mb model.  
 
I think that $290 for a GTX is pretty good though, and EVGA is a great manufacturer.

That Palit card is beautiful...
I'd wait for more benchies though.

I would go 8800GTS 512MB. The 1GB memory will be bottle necked by its 256bit memory interface, so even at high resolution... difference is minimal.  
 
I think the GTX is a good value at this point so for less than $300 I would also say go for it. But between a GTS G92 and a GTX G80 again the differences would be pretty minute.

If you are lookign longer-than-this-year term, I'd go with the 8800GTS 1GB.
 
If you are lookign for a time killer till better cards come out this year, I'd go 9800GTX and save a few dollars.

That gts is a scam and it cannot use that much VRAM due to it's 256-bit bus.
 
Get the 8800GTX.IMO it's still the best single card.

 
Uh?  How do you figure that?  
 
1680x1050 isn't very high, so you don't need lots of Vram.  The 9800GTX would be overkill as well.  Getting a nice 512MB GTS would probably be the best bet.  (unless you have money to burn.)

I would go with the 9800gtx personally it is roughly comparable to 8800ultra and surpasses if overclocked. These cards can overclock mad i have heard. If your on a budget get the 8800gts g92 512! 1gig is useless 256bit bottlenecks it, resulting in any improvement.

8800 GTX if you want high resolutions with AA.
 
9800gtx if you want better raw performance.
 
Forget the 8800gts 1gb card.

8800GTX or a vanilla 88000GTS (G92)

Someone care to educate me?  How is the 256bit bus a bottleneck?  As I said, he doesn't need the 1GB card because he isn't playing at a res high enough to need that much Vram.
 
http://www.legitreviews.com/article/683/3/
 
Here is a review with a 1GB GTS.  Thankfully, they are smart enough to run these cards at 2560x1600.  (AA levels seem to change depending on the game.)  The first benchmark shows a nearly 64% increase in frame rates over the 512MB GTS.  While not all games show increases like this, I don't see the 256bit memory bus holding this card back.  As I said, he doesn't need it because he isn't gaming this high.  There is a need for 1GB video cards at 2560x1600, not so much at 1680x1050.

9800gtx!

well heres why i do need more than 512 mb. If i run crysis with at say 1680 x 1050 with 4x aa on high settings i noticed that in reviews GPU's with higher vram seem to get increased performance because of how close crysis is closing in on 512 mb. Yes ive seen that legit review of it and if someone can base their opinion on that it would be cool.

I have seen 8600s with 1GB RAM.

Even at the extreme resolution, the performance difference between the 1gb gts and the 512mb gts were minimal, except for call of juarez.  

well with 1 gig of ram u only can utilize some of the ram due to the narrow bit interface. i looked at benchmarks and the fps  not significant i was evening talking to an xfx tech about this and he said it really wouldnt help much due to the narrow bit interface. The 9000 series would benefit more with the 1 gig of ram due to there efficient way to compress data.

From the recent 9800GTX review, it seems that the 8800GTX tends to do better with AA and AF on.
 
So I personally would go with the 8800GTX, and then hopefully the 9900GTX will come out within 90days, and you can use the eVGA step-up program.

Im with 474 on this one. 1 Gig on the GTS and the new 9800GTX will show in higher res, and Im thinking on the 9800GTX, itll show even better

@smurf, I haven't looked at crysis benchies with different sized Vram cards.  If this is the case, I'd get the 8800GTX.  Less then $300, and has the memory you need to play.  (realize however that crysis tends to play poorly no matter what.)  If you can afford it, you might want to just get the GTX anyways.  If you are looking to save a few pennies however, grab the 512MB GTS.
 

 
Huh?  That makes no sense.  You can use all the ram, the bus width won't prevent you from being able to use it.  You should care about two things with respect to the memory on a video card.  The bus width, and the speed of the chips.  These two things will dictate the memory bandwidth of the card.  Having a low memory clock speed, or a low width means it will take longer for information to reach the CPU.  It won't prevent you from being able to use any of the memory.  Look at this.
 
http://www.vr-zone.com/articles/64 [...] /5575.html
 
At these clocks, the GTS is almost tied for second.  (behind only the GTX and older GTS.)  Thats all the bit width is, how fast can the card retrieve something from memory.  It can utilize all of it, not some.
 
 

sry for the error i read that somewhere.
thanks for correction 4745454b.
anyway in my opinion go with the 9800gtx. if u have the extra cash or if on budget 8800gtx came down as low as 290$