Hello,
Wanted to see if I could recieve a little advice, I've been looking to upgrade my computer this week with the following specs:
AMD 64 3800+ 2.4Ghz
nVidia 8500 GT
1GB RAM
I purchased another Gig of RAM and I was looking at the 8800 cards. I found the following:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150252
Which at the time had a mail in rebate for 30$, of course the day I went to order it got taken off so I searched for a cheaper version of the same exact card and came across:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125089
Because I was in a hurry to get to work, I just ordered right away only to realize when I came back home that it was 256MB and not 512MB which explained the big difference in price. Although it is OC'd.
My question is, how big a difference will it be from 512 MB to 256MB (Understandably both are huge upgrades from my current 8500GT) I just wanted to get some advice and determine wether I should return it and buy a 512MB for 60$ more, since im upgrading the gfx card and I wont do again for at least a year and a half or two, I want to do it right.
Thank you!
Wanted to see if I could recieve a little advice, I've been looking to upgrade my computer this week with the following specs:
AMD 64 3800+ 2.4Ghz
nVidia 8500 GT
1GB RAM
I purchased another Gig of RAM and I was looking at the 8800 cards. I found the following:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150252
Which at the time had a mail in rebate for 30$, of course the day I went to order it got taken off so I searched for a cheaper version of the same exact card and came across:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814125089
Because I was in a hurry to get to work, I just ordered right away only to realize when I came back home that it was 256MB and not 512MB which explained the big difference in price. Although it is OC'd.
My question is, how big a difference will it be from 512 MB to 256MB (Understandably both are huge upgrades from my current 8500GT) I just wanted to get some advice and determine wether I should return it and buy a 512MB for 60$ more, since im upgrading the gfx card and I wont do again for at least a year and a half or two, I want to do it right.
Thank you!