9800 GTX Review / Benchmarks

[Parker]

Originally Posted by polobunny

Haha sure, it's easy to spend polo's money. :P

A little bit here, a little bit there, aahhh what the heck.

Haha, just messin..... thanks for the help polo!

[azianai]

parker, MIR doesn't factor into the stepup. As long as your invoice shows you paid full value, you only pay the difference. You'll be looking at I think 100 dollars to step up right now to the GTX + S/H both ways (you pay to mail your card to them, and you pay for them to mail it back to you).
Honestly PB, depending how much it costs for you to stepup, you may want to just skip the GX2. I only went up cause it costs me 248 to stepup, and thats basically the price of another GTS for SLI and i'd need a nvidia chipset.

[Parker]

Originally Posted by azianai

parker, MIR doesn't factor into the stepup. As long as your invoice shows you paid full value, you only pay the difference. You'll be looking at I think 100 dollars to step up right now to the GTX + S/H both ways (you pay to mail your card to them, and you pay for them to mail it back to you).

I wasn't thinking that the MIR would have any effect with the step-up anyways, but thats good to know.
I'm going to wait a month and see how the prices are, then I'll decide.

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by azianai

parker, MIR doesn't factor into the stepup. As long as your invoice shows you paid full value, you only pay the difference. You'll be looking at I think 100 dollars to step up right now to the GTX + S/H both ways (you pay to mail your card to them, and you pay for them to mail it back to you).
Honestly PB, depending how much it costs for you to stepup, you may want to just skip the GX2. I only went up cause it costs me 248 to stepup, and thats basically the price of another GTS for SLI and i'd need a nvidia chipset.

It's $332 US, since I bought mine for around $282 US back in December. It's a lot of money, but less than a SLI board and another 8800GT. I'm not sure because frankly, I don't need it that much. Lots of penis envy here, my OC'ed 8800GT alone does the job well even in 1920x1200. I might wait for the 9900 series (or 10 series?) from Nvidia to sell my 8800GT and keep my VF1000LED maybe, who knows.

[Stormcrow]

Video Card Comparison - GPUReview.com

That's just sad, the G92 8800GTS can easily overclock to reach that speed. Looks like the 9800GTX has less texture units as well, something I can't quite wrap my mind around. Also if you compare the 8800GTX to the 9800GTX, they trade blows with each other...with the 8800 having more memory bandwidth.

[azianai]

well polo (no clue why i called you PB lol i blame being at work and half asleep), i'll let you know how the 9800GX2 works out, although i cant' seem to OC my Xeon E3110 so i may be bottlenecked a bit (mostly because i can't seem to figure out the proper way to OC lol). But yeah, UPS is suppose to deliver tomorrow (it departed NJ so it'll get to NY tomorrow) and i'll put up a rough user review of it.

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by azianai

well polo (no clue why i called you PB lol i blame being at work and half asleep), i'll let you know how the 9800GX2 works out, although i cant' seem to OC my Xeon E3110 so i may be bottlenecked a bit (mostly because i can't seem to figure out the proper way to OC lol). But yeah, UPS is suppose to deliver tomorrow (it departed NJ so it'll get to NY tomorrow) and i'll put up a rough user review of it.

E3110 shouldn't be much of a hassle. Put FSB to 400, change RAM ratio so it runs at stock speeds or close and there you got, 3.6Ghz with no voltage bump. :)

[azianai]

see i think im just being moronic about it, i tried that and i was getting like an OC on 1 core and not on the other when i was using CPU-Z to measure the speed. I dunno maybe this gigabyte's bios is screwy, i'd say more im just being a **** =)

hmm can't say n*0b on the forums...

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by azianai

see i think im just being moronic about it, i tried that and i was getting like an OC on 1 core and not on the other when i was using CPU-Z to measure the speed. I dunno maybe this gigabyte's bios is screwy, i'd say more im just being a **** =)

hmm can't say n*0b on the forums...

*shrugs*
Maybe EIST, C1E support or Speedstep (whatever it's called) is messing with you.
I know both Windows XP and Windows Vista don't report my CPU speed properly because they don't take the CPU FSB into consideration, they just calculate using the ratio. So if I set my FSB to 500 and ratio to 8, if you're any decent at math you'll see this gives me 4Ghz. Vista and XP themselves will report 2.66Ghz however (8x333FSB) because 333mhz is the base FSB for E8400.
However, CPU-Z reports correctly no matter what.
If I was you I'd look into it a bit more, E3110 and E8400 are so easy to overclock it's a shame not to touch 'em. Considering you probably have 600mhz available if not more without touching the voltage, why not?

Anyway, different thread if you got questions though. :P

[RBIEZE]

Mwa ha ha.

Using the Evga step up for one 9800GTX ,it'll only cost me $115.
Ordering a second one in 2 weeks.

It's a no brainer for me ,upgrading from 2 -8800GTS 320's (NOT G92'S)
Should be a nice boost.