Question about a new video card...

News wrote:
> Hey guys question..
>
> I have a 320 meg 8800 gts video card in my system and want to upgrade.
> Would a 730meg 8800gtx be worth the 500 dollars for the upgrade? My
> system is a 2 core 6700 DeleteThis @2.66 with 2 gig ram made by Velocity Micro 500
> watt. Is there a lot of difference between the cards for the money spent?
>

Yes, the GTX is 73% more orthogonal with turgid data (common to rail
shooters). But this is only realized when it is paired with a matched
CPU such as the Transmeta Crusoe (in x86 emulation mode).

I also see you are using 500W RAM made by Velocity Micro. This is an
excellent product for holding PC data/cooking omelettes with sorrel.

There are some other, unimportant, differences between the cards, like
recommended resolution based on available video memory and stream
processors, subtle min/max/average FPS gains, and power consumption.

But none of that matters not a whit to you, since you don't want to use
the card with any programs, at least those you bothered to tell us
about. You just want to buy the card and stick it in the box and be
satisfied? If it were only that simple.

> Thanks Jeff

Jeff was unable to respond, he's busy at his business letter writing
class. Maybe next post!
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"News" <jeffm68.DeleteThis@att.com> wrote in message
news:CyIoj.1690$xq2.147@newssvr21.news.prodigy.net...
> Hey guys question..
>
> I have a 320 meg 8800 gts video card in my system and want to upgrade.
> Would a 730meg 8800gtx be worth the 500 dollars for the upgrade? My system
> is a 2 core 6700.DeleteThis@2.66 with 2 gig ram made by Velocity Micro 500 watt. Is
> there a lot of difference between the cards for the money spent?
>
> Thanks Jeff

$500 for an increase that would be incremental at best is money poorly
spent. For $500 you can get two 8800GT's and run them in SLI.
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The difference between those two cards would NOT be worth $500. They are
really reasonably closely matched.

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--DaveW
"News" <jeffm68 RemoveThis @att.com> wrote in message
news:CyIoj.1690$xq2.147@newssvr21.news.prodigy.net...
> Hey guys question..
>
> I have a 320 meg 8800 gts video card in my system and want to upgrade.
> Would a 730meg 8800gtx be worth the 500 dollars for the upgrade? My system
> is a 2 core 6700 RemoveThis @2.66 with 2 gig ram made by Velocity Micro 500 watt. Is
> there a lot of difference between the cards for the money spent?
>
> Thanks Jeff
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News wrote:
> Hey guys question..
>
> I have a 320 meg 8800 gts video card in my system and want to upgrade.
> Would a 730meg 8800gtx be worth the 500 dollars for the upgrade? My
> system is a 2 core 6700.TakeThisOut@2.66 with 2 gig ram made by Velocity Micro 500
> watt. Is there a lot of difference between the cards for the money spent?
>
> Thanks Jeff


prob not
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News wrote:
> Hey guys question..
>
> I have a 320 meg 8800 gts video card in my system and want to upgrade.
> Would a 730meg 8800gtx be worth the 500 dollars for the upgrade? My
> system is a 2 core 6700.TakeThisOut@2.66 with 2 gig ram made by Velocity Micro 500
> watt. Is there a lot of difference between the cards for the money spent?
>
> Thanks Jeff

Upgrade everything else first. Your 6700 isn't pushing the GTS to it's
limit yet; although some games are harder on the limited RAM than
others. For me a great and more efficient upgrade was going from a
8800GTS 320MB to a 8800GT 512MB.

It's cheap (250 or under now), uses less power, runs cooler (at least my
updated XFX does), and is measurably faster than the 320. You really
see the difference in shader heavy games where the combined effects of
much faster shader units and more memory greatly help out. For
reference, an 8800GT can be overclocked to closely match a GTX and
they're cheap enough to go SLI.
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