PC Tech Talk

[StarsMine]

lol, what grays? I play GTA, bad company 2, starcraft 2 and every other game on ultra graphics, and it handles it 100% fine. what grays do you speak of. I'm aware it's not the newest card, but odds are he doesn't need the newest card lol... also, if I can play all the latest games on ultra settings 100% fine, then clearly it's an awesome card, even more so cause the price is right.

I like how the games you mentioned are very very CPU heavy, not GPU. GTA is a terrible terrible port :/ only 1% of the computers w/ steam have 3 cores dumb ass coders.

Anyways are you talking about the 9800GTX? you just said GT the GTX takes massive power to run and it does match the power of say the 260GTX but there are better cards for the money and power usage.

Perry it may say max 300Watts but that means nothing about the quality of the PSU, I would never try to got to the "max" of a prefab PSU most of that wattage are on the 3.3v and 5v not the 12v where it is needed

[Perry]

lol mine says all those numbers ahah

[StarsMine]

lol mine says all those numbers ahah

Well what are the amps next to those volts?
Anyways what would be your budget of what your willing to spend? 150? 200? 250?

Best price performence like I said is the gtx 460 but the card is 200 and a PSU would be 30-50 so I would go for a 5770 + a PSU for 180-190 anything lower would be say a a 4850 like mag

look here
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ng,2697-3.html


Maynard stop it with the 9800 GT, at that price the 4850 is better more powerfull card and uses less power, when you upgrade you get the best you can for your budget at the current time, not what was the best for the budget 2 years ago

[Perry]

thanks.

[maynard]

Maynard stop it with the 9800 GT, at that price the 4850 is better more powerfull card and uses less power, when you upgrade you get the best you can for your budget at the current time, not what was the best for the budget 2 years ago

ill recommend whatever card I damn well feel like

as I said, perry doesn't need a top of the line card, the fact there's better then mine is completely irrelevant cause he doesn't need anything that good.

[StarsMine]

ill recommend whatever card I damn well feel like

as I said, perry doesn't need a top of the line card, the fact there's better then mine is completely irrelevant cause he doesn't need anything that good.

the 9800 GT is 90-95$, the price performance there is terrible compaired to the 240GT(75) or the 4850(100) and those 2 cards use less power, so with that in mind you could say you spend less on the 4850 then the 9800 GT and get more FPS

[maynard]

look here
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...ng,2697-3.html

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/276826-33-9800gt-4670

according 2 newegg, the gt 240 has 96 Stream Processors where the 9800 has 112

[StarsMine]

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/276826-33-9800gt-4670

according 2 newegg, the gt 240 has 96 shadders where the 9800 has 112

Now I didnt say the GT240 is better then the 9800 but lets make one thing clear, the amount of shaders does not matter between 2 separate series of cards, I just said the 240 is a better price/performance then your 9800gt (you have to pay attention to that in the 8000/9000/200 cards) The 200 cards are more efficient with the shardrs on the 240 are more powerful. not to mention the 240 is a much less power hungry card as I said, makes the price performance there even better for the 240.

Perry if you find a good deal for the 9800 GT (like your buddy selling it for 60 used beacuse he is upgrading) sure pick it up but do not pay 90 for it

[maynard]

Now I didnt say the GT240 is better then the 9800 but lets make one thing clear, the amount of shaders does not matter between 2 separate series of cards, I just said the 240 is a better price/performance then your 9800gt (you have to pay attention to that in the 8000/9000/200 cards) The 200 cards are more efficient with the sharers on the 240 are more powerful. not to mention the 240 is a much less power hungry card as I said, makes the price performance there even better for the 240.

yes, but the 240 is NOT better performing then the 9800GT, go read the reviews lol, every review (just read 6 diff sites including the 1 you linked.) all say the 9800GT is more powerful.

[StarsMine]

yes, but the 240 is NOT better performing then the 9800GT, go read the reviews lol, every review (just read 6 diff sites including the 1 you linked.) all say the 9800GT is more powerful.

Please point out where I said the 240 was better performing? I said price/performance, the individual shaders, and power efficiancy on the 240 are better, not the overall number crunching. If you can find 9800 new for 75 go for it, used... well if its XFX doesnt matter its got Double lifetime warrenty(or was that EVGA?...) but if it doesnt dont go for more then 65

But a 9800 GT at 90 bucks is not worth it when you can get a MUCH better card for 10 bucks more the 4850 that mag mentioned.