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i am confused :|

which is better for 19" dispay?:

8800GT 256MB
8800GS 384MB
9600GS0 384MB
9600GT 512MB

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The 9600GSO is a renamed 8800GS. You have to watch clock speeds as they will vary alot for each card. I have one 8800GS clocked 580MHz core/ 1400MHz effective DDR mem, and another one clocked 650 core/ 1900 mem. I hear the 9600GSO will continue this wide range of available clock speeds with even a 550/1400 one at the bottom.

For 1280x1024 or 1440x900, they are all pretty good. I would avoid the 8800GT 256MB as even at that low resolution, it starts to suffer greatly with fsaa in many games. The 9600GT is typically the better card with fsaa, but may not have a real advantage at that resolution. So priced the same I'd say 9600GT, but really the cheapest of your last three would be fine.

Message edited by pauldh on 04-26-2008 at 01:56:32 PM

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As pauldh said; The 8800GS wasn't selling well so NVidia decided renaming it to 9600GSO would sell more copies.
http://en.expreview.com/2008/04/04/name-change-geforce-8800gs-to-become-geforce-9600gso/

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WR2 wrote :

Lol, nice! :na:

9600gt is the best among them, although you might want to upgrade to a 8800gt or g92 8800gts if you play games.

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Before the 9600gt was released, nVidia made something to, counter the 3870 and the 3850, and that is the 8800gs, but due to lack of propaganda, the card just, lost to the AMD/ATI cards...
Now, they wanna just sell everything out, so they rename it 9600GSO.
I hate this! This shows that the 8 and the 9 series don't have much difference, that they can just fool everyone around with their confusing naming scheme!

http://technodoglau.blogspot.com/2 [...] -name.html

Anyway, the 8800gt 256MB edition is a "Must not Buy", it's a weak card. The 256mb video memory really bottleneck the GPU real badly..
The 9600gt will be better.

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romulus47plus1 wrote :

http://technodoglau.blogspot.com/2 [...] -name.html

Anyway, the 8800gt 256MB edition is a "Must not Buy", it's a weak card. The 256mb video memory really bottleneck the GPU real badly..
The 9600gt will be better.

Yeah, on higher resolutions, the 256mb version suddenly drops from 50 to 10fps or something on many benchmarks.

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dagger wrote :

Yeah, on higher resolutions, the 256mb version suddenly drops from 50 to 10fps or something on many benchmarks.

Unfortunately it's not just high res..... it happens at 1280x1024 with fsaa. Or in Crysis, even without fsaa. Look at 512MB GT vs 256MB GT: http://www.firingsquad.com/hardwar [...] page13.asp

Message edited by pauldh on 04-26-2008 at 06:53:40 PM

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OMG! 512 edition 28 FPS.
256 edition 13.7 fps!
Better of buying the 9600gt!

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The only thing you should stay away from for sure is the 256MB 8800GT.

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THANK U GUYS!!!!!

i'll buy 9600GT

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Go ahead, spend your ass off; it's vital to the war economy that we keep spending, otherwise it will crash, giving way to more pointless wars.

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Darth, dude, we are discussing a video card, not the economy. The guy is trying to find the most card for his money, about the war really has no bearing on what we are talking about.

Reply to ohiou_grad_06

lmao i said nothing about the war, but about the war economy. Anyway i just felt like expressing my right to share what I feel inside.

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War between cards isn't a bad thing.
Performances will rise, prices will drop...
Who wins in the end?
We! The consumers!

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romulus47plus1 wrote :

War between cards isn't a bad thing.
Performances will rise, prices will drop...
Who wins in the end?
We! The consumers!

Haven't seen much of a war there lately.

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Yeah, since AMD bought ATI

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Reply to romulus47plus1

only a massacre, the only metaphorical war there is ,is on the middle class, ad on the poor.

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Wow darthpiggie you're so like a communist...

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Reply to romulus47plus1

no i just like the truth :kaola: , im a real american patriot, those who can criticize the status quo to make it better

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Reply to DarthPiggie

Good for you DarthPiggie!
America needs people like you dude...
(wow, suddenly politics pops up...)

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Reply to romulus47plus1

lmao, I can't seem to seperate politics from life

Message edited by DarthPiggie on 04-27-2008 at 05:45:49 AM

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LAWL GSO vs GS is a joke they are both the same 9600GT really pwn with such low price.

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http://video.google.com/videoplay? [...] -AHhv-WpBQ

laugh and have some fun, priceless

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Can we stop posting irrelavent stuff, when the OP is look for an answer? When some1 asks which card don't start flaming about things they don't wanna hear, unless its regarding their money and how to save it.

Geez....

I agree with most of the helpful posts, the 9600 GT is your best bet since it has the extra Ram. The advantage is also that, if you your lucky you'll find it at prices that are cheaper than the 3850 and 3870 which makes it a steal!

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