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Public Forum => Pc Help/Tweak Page => Topic started by: RaGe on December 25, 2007, 11:52:37 PM

Title: Vid Card
Post by: RaGe on December 25, 2007, 11:52:37 PM

Ok so I have this card right now. Its ok, i do have some issues with it. At least I think its video issues. I figure when they finally release sp1 for vista it will take care of it. Hopefully... Anyways, I was thinking of picking up another one of them to run in SLI mode.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3089426&CatId=1839

My question would be, (and please post links) if it would be better all 2gether to just buy like an 8800 or something. I mainly play crysis, CSS and TF2 for now. Which route would be better. I  could buy another one to help my fps now and when i'm ready later to get into some real dx10 gaming, I can upgrade. Idk tho... Opinions? Thoughts? Links?

thx

RaGe

Title: Re: Vid Card
Post by: MR|337 on December 26, 2007, 02:00:05 AM

The one I had was a pos. Died in my office pc after only a couple months. I'll tell you this right now, Crysis is too much for a single 8800 Ultra without scaling back the eye candy. With Source based games I can crank it up to max. I've tried a few Dx10 games and have had the most success with World in Conflict. The others, most notably "Games for Windows" branded ones have gave me nothing but grief.

Title: Re: Vid Card
Post by: One True Sin on January 21, 2008, 02:20:53 AM

just to let you know not to be late as hell there is a 8600 GT SLI capable PCI-E Made by Sparkle available at Tiger Direct for 109.

Title: Re: Vid Card
Post by: MR|337 on January 21, 2008, 11:38:10 AM

Sparkle was the pos that died on me...Want tech support? Call Thailand..

Title: Re: Vid Card
Post by: Giant Flying Head on January 21, 2008, 04:30:45 PM

Man, I've got the 7800 GT, and it works great!

Title: Re: Vid Card
Post by: hakksaww on February 10, 2008, 10:01:45 AM

sli is a gimmick. get an 8800gt and you will be happier.

and clubit has the leadtek one for $199 AR

http://www.clubit.com/product_detail.cfm?itemno=CA9608006&cmp=AFC-CJ_CBIT