any brand will do, coz unless is pre-OC'ed, all other 88 GTX/GTS is the same as nVidia specs.

nth wrong... just thought they are made in US/UK initially

it seems fluctuating a lot -->10FPS?

well its not necessary to set everything to maximum

what is the maximum sustainable temperature for 8800GTS/GTX? Its like having 70C at full load is pretty normal... but will it kill the GPU die?

Geforce 9 series would be the first batch to use DX10.1 and WDDM 3.0 rite?

hope by next year, 8800gts will be like what 7900gs is selling now
thereby i postpone the dx10 card to one yr later, now joining Red league first

This post has been edited by dattebayo: Jun 24 2007, 10:38 AM

bcoz suddenly thinking of my maxtor is dying soon... so i need extra money for a new HDD, then have to cut the budget to get x1950 lo

x1950gt can beat 8600gts in many games, and it absolutely smash the 8600gt to paste.

the pro version, only palit fits in my budget, but now the stock is hard to find...
other brands would need rm700 for 1950pro with just 256mb of memory, so I think I can OC the GT up to Pro speed, and save rm200 for that...

dx10 game... hmm, i just wait 1 yr later and see how G80/G90 or ATi will be doing, another reason that hold me back from 8800 is how will the 1st gen dx10 card perform in real dx10 game, is still uncertain, so to spend rm1k on that is pretty risky for me

isnt in COH, there's only the setting as either turn on AA or turn off it, it doesn't mention which level of AA

not to mention, it shows significant favor towards nvidia 8 series in benchmarks, where x1950 score lower than 8600gt, whereby in real gaming, there's big difference between these 2 cards. My 1950gt scored 4600, and last time 8600gt scored 4800.

if quadcore is taken into account, this has further proved that 3dmark is actually a RichmanMarks

colorful is colorful
palit is xpertvision, both are almost the same, except different style of packaging and the mascots used Palit is cheaper than XpertVision, but sometimes a little more expensive than colorful

if u have a 7800gtx, i suggest u not to upgrade to 8600gt. The improvement is quite insignificant, and 7800gtx can handle better in some dx9 games.

wait for 8800gts price to drop, or next gen dx10 cards come out.

I got one that came with x1950. PM me if interested

I think its more on psychology effect of thinking the GC make ur room hotter.
I used to put water boiler kettle in my room, its stay at near 100C all the time, but I dont feel a thing.

all 8 series card will yield better 3dmark results due to their better shader operation. eg. 8600GT 3dmark score is comparable or even higher than 7900GS. But in actual gaming world, that still lots of other factors like memory bus width and textures, pixels, vertex shader unit etc. 8600GTS has only 32 Stream proc. and its pretty petty for a rm700 card.

so in short, do not trust 3dmark too much, they are just used to boost owners' ego

when looking for a GC's performance, a more accurate approach is to look for measured FPS statistics on some games. Anandtech and tomhardware do provide lots of them.

they will never be DX10 for XP. Due to GC driver's completely different architecture in Vista. But as many said, even Vista has been launched for more than 6 months, both ATI and Nvidia are still not able to produce a bug-free driver for Vista platform, for both dx9 or dx10 cards. So far, playing dx9 games on Vista is still sucker than playing in XP.

its really recommended those who don;t own dx10 card yet to stay in XP for a little while.

didn't know that coloful 8600Ultra is a dual slot card until now

anyway madman pls post benchies asap

if his rig is puny, then my pc is considered junk liao

make me so tempted to get one
btw, since its still reside in ur main rig, why not try some games and post ur results

ello shawty, instead of focusing on 3dmarks, can post some game's benchmark such as the built-in graphic test in COH?

3dmark isn't the absolute measure to determine level of enjoyment in games