8800GTS 320MB vs. 8600 SLI

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primus101

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I'm building a new rig so i can play crysis this fall and I have everything picked out except for the GPU:

These are my current specs for my new rig:

Antec Nine Hundred

EVGA 122-CK-NF63-TR LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard

EVGA 320-P2-N815-AR GeForce 8800GTS 320MB GDDR3

Thermaltake W0106RU Complies with ATX 12V 2.2 & EPS 12V version 700W Power Supply

Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 Conroe 2.4GHz LGA 775 Processor Model BX80557E6600

CORSAIR XMS2 2GB 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800

2 x Western Digital Caviar 250GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s in RAID 1

SAMSUNG 18X DVD±R DVD Burner

View Sonic 28 VX2835wm

1. Should I go with the 8800GTS 320MB or the 8600 in SLi if I want to play crysis this fall??

2. Or should I just get one cheap 8600 and use it to play BF2, Cod2, CS source for now...and wait until Christmas to get one of those new GeForce 9 series cards and play crysis with that.

Also, are there any parts here that suck/buggy?
Also, is a sound card worth buying? or is the intergrated fine?

All help is greatly appreciated... Thanks.
 
Does the 8600 support DX10? If not Crysis isn't going to look as good with a DX10 card. Get the 8800GTX so your ready to play Crysis when it comes out and you can play the other games now.
 
If you are buying a 28" LCD, you will want way more than 8600 SLI.... You will want probably at least a GTX. Your native res is 1920 x 1200.

You are spending a lot on everything BUT the graphics card, which is the most important piece for gaming....
 
!Waffles! said:
Does the 8600 support DX10? If not Crysis isn't going to look as good with a DX10 card. Get the 8800GTX so your ready to play Crysis when it comes out and you can play the other games now.
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Yes it supports DX10... however there are no DX10 titles out now that run well on them (as the current ones are crappy patches which run bad on all DX10 hardware).
 
The only reason I don't want to drop cash on a 8800GTx is that if a new 9 series card is out this fall and crysis is out this fall, i was thinking to get something cheaper for the time being. Also I figured that a 8800GTS would be able to handle crysis but everyone seems to think otherwise.
 
Well you won't be able to run games with max settings using a 320mb card @ that resolution.
 
primus101 said:
1. Should I go with the 8800GTS 320MB or the 8600 in SLi if I want to play crysis this fall??

2. Or should I just get one cheap 8600 and use it to play BF2, Cod2, CS source for now...and wait until Christmas to get one of those new GeForce 9 series cards and play crysis with that.

Also, are there any parts here that suck/buggy?
Also, is a sound card worth buying? or is the intergrated fine?

All help is greatly appreciated... Thanks.
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The system looks good though you may want to consider changing the CPU to a Q6600 and overclocking it ( have my B3 Q66 clocked to 2.8ghz at 40c). As far as the GPU, for right now, and until the next gen cards come out I would go with this:
EVGA 320-P2-N815-AR GeForce 8800GTS 320MB . 1. Because it's factory overclocked, 2. Because the resell value on EVGA's video cards is high, and 3. it's $270 after $15 MIR.

All in all a single 8600 would probably hold you over until the next gen, but I think you will be happier with an 8800 series gpu.

If you have a medium/high-end sound system (Over $120) I would get nothing less than an X-Fi... what they can do for games is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G, but your speakers need to reproduce, otherwise onboard is alright (you may get static though.)
 
ShiShKaBoB said:
The system looks good though you may want to consider changing the CPU to a Q6600 and overclocking it ( have my B3 Q66 clocked to 2.8ghz at 40c). As far as the GPU, for right now, and until the next gen cards come out I would go with this:
EVGA 320-P2-N815-AR GeForce 8800GTS 320MB . 1. Because it's factory overclocked, 2. Because the resell value on EVGA's video cards is high, and 3. it's $270 after $15 MIR.

All in all a single 8600 would probably hold you over until the next gen, but I think you will be happier with an 8800 series gpu.

If you have a medium/high-end sound system (Over $120) I would get nothing less than an X-Fi... what they can do for games is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G, but your speakers need to reproduce, otherwise onboard is alright (you may get static though.)
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Thanks for all the help! But here is my retort.
I know that the q6600 is only $80 more than the e6600 with the new price drop but does it have better overclocking options than the e6600?? Do you really get that big of a performance upgrade? I heard only photoshop CS truly shows an increase otherwise its useless.

In terms of graphics cards. Im either going with either one 8600 or one 8800gts 320mb. 8600 sli was a stupid idea...8800gts 640 is too much money to drop when I know the 9 series is gonna make all the 8800's really cheap in the next few months. The only question is as i wait for the 9 series do i want 8600 or 8800....with my 28inch viewsonic i might want to go with the 8800 but im only play cs, bf2, and cod....they wont drain an 8600 that much will they???

Also I have a 7.1 Creative system,,,, it was like $80 and I am well pleased with the intergrated sound on my A8N Sli-Premium. If I was to get an Xi-Fi would you go with a 2.1 , 5.1 , or 7.1 system and what brand would you go with?

Thanks for all the help ppl.
 
We don't know if the new "9" series cards will drop the price on the current cards at all. Its even rumored to be the middle range card, filling the gap between the 8800gts and 8600 cards.
 
Isn't SLI support in vista pretty much Ass?

I would go no lower than an 8800GTS 640MB.
 
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