ok video card question

[duckingzebra]

is the only difference between these two cards the core clock and memory clock, and is a 37 mhz difference in the core clock and a 360 mhz difference in the memory clock worth another $100 roughly.

EVGA 768-P2-N831-AR GeForce 8800GTX 768MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Card - Retail


EVGA 768-P2-N881-AR GeForce 8800Ultra 768MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 HDCP Video Card - Retail

[Yellowhello]

Ya, the 8800Ultra is pretty much an OCed 8800GTX. Unless you get an 8800Ultra though a step-up program or if you get one for free, the 8800GTX is the way to go.

[Quakindude]

You wouldn't catch me paying $500+ for a video card. Much less $600.

Me personally, of those two choices, I'd go with the GTX. The difference between the two performance wise doesn't mean a whole lot when the GTX pulls in the frame rates like it does. Later on, you could always overclock the GTX to those of the Ultra. Or dang close to it.

[duckingzebra]

well thanks a lot once again quakindude, ill just come to you when i need to overclock it :)

[gvblake22]

Originally Posted by Quakindude

You wouldn't catch me paying $500+ for a video card. Much less $600.

Me personally, of those two choices, I'd go with the GTX. The difference between the two performance wise doesn't mean a whole lot when the GTX pulls in the frame rates like it does. Later on, you could always overclock the GTX to those of the Ultra. Or dang close to it.

I very much agree. Just remember that overclocking anything is not guaranteed, so it is very possible to get a GTX and not be able to clock it as high as the Ultra. But again, the difference is very negligible and you would never notice unless benchmarking and quantitatively comparing numbers.

[Computer-Ed]

If those are your only choices then I would agree with the GTX, as the performance gain is not worth the price. if you want to stay nVidia I would look at the 8800GTS which can handle anything thrown at it with ease.

I would also look at the Radeon 2900. While it's benchamark numbers might be lower it can still run anything out well and early DX10 testing shows it is slower than the ultra but faster than the GTX in real DX10.

Now take that with a grain of salt since the testing is still new and drivers will imrpove perfornace but the numbers basically say that a 2900 will work fine as well.