I must face a choice this Christmas

I have to choose between these. I can only take one of the choices because my parents aren’t rich and they don’t like to spoil me, and I equally want all of these. I JUST CAN’T DECIDE!!!!

8800 will be outdated in a month.

2 Gigs will be over, the age of 4 Gigs will be on.

NEREVAR117 wrote: 8800 will be outdated in a month.

2 Gigs will be over, the age of 4 Gigs will be on.

this is true

NEREVAR117 wrote: 8800 will be outdated in a month.

2 Gigs will be over, the age of 4 Gigs will be on.

Yeah I hear the 9900 cards are coming soon, but how much will they be? I GOTS TO RUN CRYSIS!

Btw I have 2 gigs of RAM already so if I get 2 more I’ll have 4

take the games and other stuff

Even 3 connected 8800’s can’t run Crysis on with a good FPS rate.

A single 9Series will cost at LEAST a half a grand.

What is you’re processor?

NEREVAR117 wrote: Even 3 connected 8800’s can’t run Crysis on with a good FPS rate.

A single 9Series will cost at LEAST a half a grand.

What is you’re processor?

Intel Core 2 Duo E6400. I have 2 gigs of ram and... a Geforce 7300 graphics card piece of shit.

hmmm...

it’d be best if you threw over the whole idea, and get a better Processor, Such as a Quad-Core.

Any left over money, save it or spend it on games and stuff.

Next year, buy a cheap single 9series.

You should be good to go for Crysis.

2 Gigs can do you good for now, especially if you have windows XP.

Or you can except cash from your parents and save it til you want somehting worthwhile.

Zucas wrote: Or you can except cash from your parents and save it til you want somehting worthwhile.

Eh, my birthday money’s just ending up as other family member’s Christmas presents before anything good comes out. My Dad + Bro’s BD are coming up soon after Christmas as well, so money won’t do good cause I’m just too generous

NEREVAR117 wrote: Even 3 connected 8800’s can’t run Crysis on with a good FPS rate.

A single 9Series will cost at LEAST a half a grand.

What is you’re processor?

3? I think you better prove that. And, on a quad-core system with 4GB of DDR2 PC6200 RAM, I doubt that would be case with three 8800’s in SLI mode, especially since new games are built to support that. I can’t say it would run at 125 though...Or even close.

And, there is no real information on the 9 series, but most new GeForce cards cost around $500-$600, since they generally release the high-end ones first, then lower-end cards.

But, to help here, I’d say go for the 360 stuff. I mean, getting high-end cards in PC’s you already have, unless you built it yourself and made it so it could be easily expandable, is stupid, especially if you purchased a manufacturer system. Sticking an 8800 in one of those is not a good unless they did it already, because you probably won’t have space. The 8800’s are large cards, usually big enough to block surrounding PCI ports. Not only that, compact spaces will heat the bitch up and you’ll have wasted around $400, or whatever you or your family paid.

As for the RAM, you would have to make sure you’re getting the exact kind. If you don’t, bad, and I mean bad, things can happen. Voltage screw ups cause a lot of electronic problems.

Just go for the 360 stuff.

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Actually, never buy new parts unless you know your motherboard.

Ever.

What motherboard do you have? What RAM do you have? Do you know the chipset your CPU is on? Do you know what type of power supply you have and the type of connectors it has (trust me, and 8800 is gonna require an extra power input)?

As for the 9 series, you’ll be waiting until about February.

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Thats what I heard.

RageOverdose wrote: Actually, never buy new parts unless you know your motherboard.

Ever.

What motherboard do you have? What RAM do you have? Do you know the chipset your CPU is on? Do you know what type of power supply you have and the type of connectors it has (trust me, and 8800 is gonna require an extra power input)?

As for the 9 series, you’ll be waiting until about February.

Aww geez I just found a picture about 2 hours ago of my motherboard.

one sec.

Ok here

Being a micro-ATX motherboard, I would assume the computer isn’t that big. And, since it is an HP prebuilt, its likely it doesn’t have great space for expanding, except for maybe RAM, which you can get some of the best on the market with it, just not the best.

Question is, would you play on the PC enough to warrant using an 8800?

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RageOverdose wrote: Being a micro-ATX motherboard, I would assume the computer isn’t that big. And, since it is an HP prebuilt, its likely it doesn’t have great space for expanding, except for maybe RAM, which you can get some of the best on the market with it, just not the best.

Question is, would you play on the PC enough to warrant using an 8800?

What? This computer’s fucking huge!

i’d go for the games and stuff

gabmed wrote:

theres like no pc games out