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Re: Nvidea vs Radeion Gpx cards
« Reply #15 on: February 12, 2009, 12:46:48 AM »
Quote from: drdeathx on February 12, 2009, 12:41:49 AM

LOL. You can get ATI 3870 less than that and it outperforms the 8800GT and if you read Baldeagle's response you can get 9800GT for about the same price.
No it doesn't.  The 8800GT does a fair number on the 3870 depending on the game.  Crysis/HL is about even, but ET, CoD, etc, the 8800 still outperforms it.
http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/gaming-graphics-charts-q3-2008/benchmarks,30.html
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Re: Nvidea vs Radeion Gpx cards
« Reply #16 on: February 12, 2009, 12:49:18 AM »
Quote from: drdeathx on February 12, 2009, 12:41:49 AM

LOL. You can get ATI 3870 less than that and it outperforms the 8800GT and if you read Baldeagle's response you can get 9800GT for about the same price.

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Re: Nvidea vs Radeion Gpx cards
« Reply #17 on: February 12, 2009, 08:15:11 AM »
So what, if any, are the differences between the 8800GT and the 9800GT? I was under the impression that when the 9xxx line of card came out, they were intended to be a less expensive version of the 8xxx series.
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Re: Nvidea vs Radeion Gpx cards
« Reply #18 on: February 12, 2009, 08:24:49 AM »
Quote from: Max on February 12, 2009, 08:15:11 AM
So what, if any, are the differences between the 8800GT and the 9800GT? I was under the impression that when the 9xxx line of card came out, they were intended to be a less expensive version of the 8xxx series.

Actually the 9800 series was intended to be a marketing ploy to rebrand and sell the old 8800 again. This was due to having no competition from ATI at the time. With the age of internet this scam was quickly caught on though and finally ATI caught up with the 4870 forcing Nvidia to release a real update the 2x0 series.
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Re: Nvidea vs Radeion Gpx cards
« Reply #19 on: February 12, 2009, 09:30:29 AM »
Quote from: MrRiplEy[H] on February 12, 2009, 08:24:49 AM
Actually the 9800 series was intended to be a marketing ploy to rebrand and sell the old 8800 again. This was due to having no competition from ATI at the time. With the age of internet this scam was quickly caught on though and finally ATI caught up with the 4870 forcing Nvidia to release a real update the 2x0 series.
Marketing ploy?  Obviously.  Scam?  Hardly.
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Re: Nvidea vs Radeion Gpx cards
« Reply #20 on: February 12, 2009, 09:33:42 AM »
Quote from: MrRiplEy[H] on February 12, 2009, 08:24:49 AM
Actually the 9800 series was intended to be a marketing ploy to rebrand and sell the old 8800 again. This was due to having no competition from ATI at the time. With the age of internet this scam was quickly caught on though and finally ATI caught up with the 4870 forcing Nvidia to release a real update the 2x0 series.

Yep, for all intents and purposes the G92 8800 and 9800 cards of the same stripe (GS/GS, GT/GT, GTS/GTX) are the same cards.  This excludes the 320, 640 and 768 Mb 8800's with the older GPU chips.
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Re: Nvidea vs Radeion Gpx cards
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Re: Nvidea vs Radeion Gpx cards
« Reply #22 on: February 12, 2009, 01:26:19 PM »



Pretty damn close but 9800GTX a winner. Think they are not the same card(At least the numbers are different :rofl). 9800GTX had some things a bit better I assume.
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Re: Nvidea vs Radeion Gpx cards
« Reply #23 on: February 12, 2009, 01:32:54 PM »
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Re: Nvidea vs Radeion Gpx cards
« Reply #24 on: February 12, 2009, 01:39:05 PM »
The last nvidias I owned, I bought three new cards for three computers I had at the time. All had power backup and no problems. The cards in all three machines went bad within the next couple of months. I never have since nor never will purchase any nvidia product. Only cards I use now have the ATI chipsets. I have yet to have one go bad on me.
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Re: Nvidea vs Radeion Gpx cards
« Reply #25 on: February 12, 2009, 01:56:22 PM »
Regarding the 8800/9800 cards.   MANY people purchased 9800GT's, GTX's, with 8800 stickers underneath the new 9800 sticker.   This happened OFTEN, not just an odd occurrence.   They got lazy because ATi was nowhere near the 8800 performance at the time.   

It happened and I even brought it up when I was looking to replace my old 7900GT.   I was looking at BFG and they had more "sticker issues" than any other Brand.   I stuck with eVga and am glad I did.   I RMA'd my 7900GT (the Samsung RAM) and received a $160 8800GT without a single question asked.   

I'm looking at the GTX 280 at maybe in the Fall, but I still love my 8800GTS KO.   
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Re: Nvidea vs Radeion Gpx cards
« Reply #26 on: February 12, 2009, 02:03:29 PM »
I RMA'd a BFG ti4600 a few years back for a dying fan, received a 5900XT
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Re: Nvidea vs Radeion Gpx cards
« Reply #27 on: February 12, 2009, 02:07:28 PM »
I just can't bring myself to get another Nvidia card after the I bought the over priced 8600. I purchased an ATI 3850 and never looked back. Gave the 8600 to my mom and even she had problems with it. So we got a 3870 for her machine and no problems. My next card will probably be a 4850.
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Re: Nvidea vs Radeion Gpx cards
« Reply #28 on: February 14, 2009, 12:34:03 AM »
My eVga 8800GT-SC started having wierd artifact issues, after a long while I took it apart only to find that they did not remove the vinyl/tape backing that goes over the thermal compound on the heat sink..  so my memory chips had a layer of vinyl tape between them and the thermal compound leading to massive overheating and as yet unknown long term damage

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Re: Nvidea vs Radeion Gpx cards
« Reply #29 on: February 14, 2009, 12:46:20 AM »
Quote from: Wingnutt on February 14, 2009, 12:34:03 AM
My eVga 8800GT-SC started having wierd artifact issues, after a long while I took it apart only to find that they did not remove the vinyl/tape backing that goes over the thermal compound on the heat sink..  so my memory chips had a layer of vinyl tape between them and the thermal compound leading to massive overheating and as yet unknown long term damage

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