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I’m in the process of building a new PC and have recently bought a “XFX GeForce 7950 GX2 M520” thinking this is gong to be a top card for a quite a while, then what do you no…..the “XFX GeForce 8800GTS” appears on the scene.
On the XFX web site they claim the new 8800’s are faster than the 7950 GX2 but the price of these new cards does not reflect this? My card is still about £40/£50 more than the 8800GTS (the GTX is well out of my league) the main difference that I can see is that the 8800 appears to have a built in “Physics Accelerator”.
This means that because NVIDIA have included this feature, the likes of “Ageia PhysX Accelerator cards” should drop in price as they try and keep in the market.
Will my card be on par with one of these new cards if I was to add a physics accelerator card as they become cheaper?....or will my card be able to keep up with one of these cards now?
P.S. they seem to be power hungry little sods. XFX recommend 600/700 w PSUs, whereas the 7950’s use two N-Vidia’s mobile GPU’s which can ramp down the power consumption if they’re not under much load. Also I don’t want to sound ungrateful or picky but I just need to get it right as I only get to build a new PC about every 5 years.
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and i was only getting 30 FPS until i got a new processor). first make sure that your motherboard can support the GeForce 8800 series and you can always overclock your processor
(i have my E6600 running at 2.93GHz) the Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800 is just an Overclocked E6600. your processor will easily overclock to 3GHz (make sure you have a good cooler) but the only thing is that you have only 2MB of Cache instead of 4MB (2MB is still really good). well enough about processors. i would recommend atleast 1GB of RAM, any Core 2 Duo, a GeForce 8800 compatibly mobo, and a PSU of atleast 600W and atleast 26A on the 12V (recommended by nVidia). if there is anything else i can help with, ill be monitoring the forums.
