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| Thread ID: 89191 | 2008-04-23 21:39:00 | Gaming Card ???? | wainuitech (129) | Press F1 |
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| 661972 | 2008-04-23 21:39:00 | Can I please have some suggestions on This Graphic Card (www.asus.com) - Building a gaming machine for a Guys Daughter, and he has asked if this card is any good, Not being a gamer I cant really answer. Its a ASUS Extreme N8800GT/G/HTDP/512M (with "Company of Heroes" bundled) The other PC he wants next month will have a Graphics Card- Ge Force 9600gt 512mb for himself. Both PC's will run XP Home. Want a laugh to go with it, a MATE of his said to ask for This CPU CPU - Somewhere about the 9.6Ghz :eek: |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 661973 | 2008-04-23 21:53:00 | Can I please have some suggestions on This Graphic Card (www.asus.com) - Building a gaming machine for a Guys Daughter, and he has asked if this card is any good, Not being a gamer I cant really answer. Its a ASUS Extreme N8800GT/G/HTDP/512M (with "Company of Heroes" bundled) I use it in gaming systems. Depends how much they want to spend really. Its the minimum card I put in gaming systems. If using a SLI board they could always add another later - I had one customer choose to do this. Its fine for almost all games currently out. COH requires all the patches, if they want to play it. I found that out........ |
pctek (84) | ||
| 661974 | 2008-04-23 22:17:00 | 8800GT is a nice choice. Only thing I would suggest is avoid the reference coolers, even slightly redesigned reference coolers like the Asus link you gave still runs a bit loud and hot. Asus do a custom model as well, after a quick sqiz can't see it. Gigabyte version with Zalman www.pbtech.co.nz The 9600GT is about 15-20% slower than a 8800GT but $70 cheaper ish, also worth considering. Beyond that jump straight to the 9800GTX which can be picked up for a smig under $500, the 8800GTS (G92) is about $50 cheaper but now not worth it compared to the 9800GTX price/performance. |
Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
| 661975 | 2008-04-23 23:14:00 | .never mind..... | pctek (84) | ||
| 661976 | 2008-04-23 23:20:00 | The 8800GT is also better in higher resolutions due to higher specs (ROPs etc). Want a laugh to go with it, a MATE of his said to ask for This CPU CPU - Somewhere about the 9.6Ghz :eek: That would be a Quad core. Common for people to add the numbers together when in reality that is not the case. Multi-threaded applications will make use of each core but most if not all programs will only use 1 or 2 cores. 9.6GHz would be your standard run of the mill Q6600 (2.4GHz, 2xE6600). Very good priced quad but its performance lies in video encoding, not gaming. |
trinsic (6945) | ||
| 661977 | 2008-04-24 00:40:00 | This may help. www.tomshardware.com :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 661978 | 2008-04-24 01:07:00 | Withdrawn misread | Battleneter2 (9361) | ||
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