New Graphics Card...Help?

[DontDoIt]

Hi People,

A friend of mine is wanting to upgrade his graphics, He currently has the 320Mb 8800GTS...running on a 1650x1050 res...

He is wanting to know which would be better/more worth while:

1 - get 1 x 768Mb 8800 GTX
2 - get 2 x 512Mb 8800 GT

Any replys would be nice

[Blitzen]

1 x 8800GTS 512mb would be your best buy.
I game on the same resolution as that with full settings and they are very very good.

Can get one for £150-160 now aswell. (So £40-50 cheaper than a GTX)
They are definitely the sweet spot in the GPU world atm.

Look here: Computer hardware and software at amazing prices, available online from Scan Computers UK
They may well have them on offer. If not they have them for under £160.

Good Luck

[DontDoIt]

Oh right, well he was looking at overclockers...(bad i know) but they have a GTX for about £170...so only about £10 more...what would you say then?

[hermeticist]

Sorry to throw another option into the loop, but how about:

Inno3D 9800GTX 512MB DDR3 Dual DVI HDTV Out PCI-E Graphics Card - Ebuyer

£186.81inc vat & del.

[vinnyT]

Scan have the 768MB XFX 8800GTX on the 'today only' page (in the 'super savers' section) for £170.38, Computer hardware and software at amazing prices, available online from Scan Computers UK.

Though he would be fine with the 8800GTS 512mb, I just mentioned the gtx as I thought it is a good price and not too far off the gts price.

[Flewis]

Does he have an SLI motherboard? SLI has actually come on a long way whereby in games that are configured for it they are getting close to 100% improvement with the second card. Even in crysis which is particularly poor for multi gpu setups 2 9600GT's will outperform any single card (9800GX2 excluded). If he needed a motherboard upgrade too then it would not be worth it. Also unless it is a 680 or 780/790 motherboard you are restricted to below x16 lanes when in SLI mode.