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 Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 2:51 pm Post subject: Questions about buying an nVidia 8 Series. |
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I am planning to buy an nVidia 8600GTS 512 mb GDDR3 for $160. But then I saw a nVidia 8600GT 1GB Mb DDR2 for $140. I am just wondering what would be better and what is the difference between GDDR3 and DDR2?
And if you are wondering why I am getting an nVidia 8600, its simply because the 9 Series is coming out. I don't want to buy a high end 8800GT while the 9 series is coming out in about two months.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 3:28 pm Post subject: |
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| I doubt you would ever use that 1gb of RAM so you might as well get the smaller but FASTER RAM. More expensive but better. |
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| Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 4:36 pm Post subject: |
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| noz3001 wrote: | | I doubt you would ever use that 1gb of RAM so you might as well get the smaller but FASTER RAM. More expensive but better. |
So go with the 8600GT 1gb?
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| Posted: Tue Dec 25, 2007 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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| xdeviance wrote: | | noz3001 wrote: | | I doubt you would ever use that 1gb of RAM so you might as well get the smaller but FASTER RAM. More expensive but better. |
So go with the 8600GT 1gb? |
No, 512 XD. Faster RAM and its enough.
PS. GDDR is optomised for gfx cards. |
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Modern games will happily chew up that much video memory, but it's not like it will really matter much when it comes down to it, since the card itself doesn't have the horsepower. It's more marketing than actually being useful.
Actually, I'm not even sure that it's actually all video ram. I read somewhere the other night that it's actually just using the turbocache bullshit and mooches system ram. |
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| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 12:38 am Post subject: Re: Questions about buying an nVidia 8 Series. |
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| xdeviance wrote: | I am planning to buy an nVidia 8600GTS 512 mb GDDR3 for $160. But then I saw a nVidia 8600GT 1GB Mb DDR2 for $140. I am just wondering what would be better and what is the difference between GDDR3 and DDR2?
And if you are wondering why I am getting an nVidia 8600, its simply because the 9 Series is coming out. I don't want to buy a high end 8800GT while the 9 series is coming out in about two months. |
this is what i say. GEFORCE!
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| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 1:04 am Post subject: Re: Questions about buying an nVidia 8 Series. |
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| xdeviance wrote: | I am planning to buy an nVidia 8600GTS 512 mb GDDR3 for $160. But then I saw a nVidia 8600GT 1GB Mb DDR2 for $140. I am just wondering what would be better and what is the difference between GDDR3 and DDR2?
And if you are wondering why I am getting an nVidia 8600, its simply because the 9 Series is coming out. I don't want to buy a high end 8800GT while the 9 series is coming out in about two months. |
I just grabbed an x1950pro for $89 that will eat the 8600gt alive. If you're going to spend that much, save a little more and get a 256meg 8800gt, they go for like $209 these days. |
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| Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 1:44 pm Post subject: Re: Questions about buying an nVidia 8 Series. |
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| suck a cheetahs dick wrote: | | xdeviance wrote: | I am planning to buy an nVidia 8600GTS 512 mb GDDR3 for $160. But then I saw a nVidia 8600GT 1GB Mb DDR2 for $140. I am just wondering what would be better and what is the difference between GDDR3 and DDR2?
And if you are wondering why I am getting an nVidia 8600, its simply because the 9 Series is coming out. I don't want to buy a high end 8800GT while the 9 series is coming out in about two months. |
I just grabbed an x1950pro for $89 that will eat the 8600gt alive. If you're going to spend that much, save a little more and get a 256meg 8800gt, they go for like $209 these days. |
But $209 is all I have :3
Well, I have $230, but that was going to used for a new PSU and a video card.
So just wait for a 8800GT?
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| Sounds like a good plan. |
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| why a nviada? i went from a 8600gt ddr2 to a sapphire HD 2600 gddr3 256mb (i cloacked it at 512mb ) and i saw a difference and the good thing is that its less expensive. i run crysis at about 20-30fps on all medium |
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| Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2007 9:11 am Post subject: |
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| nuginu wrote: | | sapphire HD 2600 gddr3 256mb (i cloacked it at 512mb ) |
What?
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You can't overclock RAM...
And he's referring to the ATI Radeon card.
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| lolwut94 wrote: | You can't overclock RAM...
And he's referring to the ATI Radeon card. |
Yes, yes you can, it will match your CPU's FSB though, and of course you can tighten all the timings while you're at it. As for a video cards, you can most certainly screw with the memory speeds, and the timings if you're feeling cool enough to fuck with a BIOS.
UnLmtD is simply baffled because nuginu has seemingly overclocked his card to such obscene levels that he physically materialized another 256mb of video ram. |
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How would it be possible? I just don't see where you would get any more RAM out of the car.d
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| lolwut94 wrote: | | How would it be possible? I just don't see where you would get any more RAM out of the car.d |
You don't "add" more ram, you increase the frequency of the memory, thus it will working faster.
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