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7800gt/x?

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What is the difference between the GT and the GTX? Is there any real performance gain? What make would you get and is there a lifetime warrenty with any of the 7800's like on the 6800U?
 
GT: 20 pipes, 7 vertex shaders, lower RAM clock
GTX: 24 pipes, 8 vertex shaders

A reference GT is about 15% slower than the GTX. However, if you get even a halfway decent RAM overclock, and a decent core overclock, it can easily beat the speeds of a stock GTX. The GTX usually will overclock higher on the RAM than the GT, but the GT usually can overclock just as well as the GTX on the core. Overclocked performance differences aren't very large, as the performance is dependent mainly on the RAM speeds. eVGA (the brand I bought) has a lifetime warranty, I believe. If you are not overclocking, the eVGA has a stock core speed fo 445mhz and a RAM speed of 1070mhz, about 10% higher than reference speeds and 5-7% slower than a GTX from what I have read. I chose the GT, personally... an $80 to $100 difference just wasn't worth it, especially when overclocked speeds come fairly close to eachother, too. If you need the ABSOLUTE top-of-the-line, money-doesn't-matter card, go for the GTX. If you're like most people, go for the GT :).
 
I always find myself buying the card that seems to be the best bang for the $$. Then some friggin review comes out showing the big brother card smashing my card and then I regret buying it. I'd say go with the GTX is your looking at going with one or the other. Spend the little extra cash in the long run it will be more advantageous. Not to mention the GTX will smoke the GT when it's overclocked as well.
 
If youre not ordering a bunch of parts all together and youre getting this simply to upgrade, spend the extra bucks for the gtx.
 
If ur gonna throw $400 at a videocard, why not throw $500 and have top-of-the-line for a least a month or two? :D
 
since im building a new system so i just bought a GT due to budget constraints, but if i did have the funds, i would go with one GTX, as two would just be overkill at this point in time....
 
takimbe, you have like 5 hard drives. Cut one and you could have had a GTX.
 
2 of them were free, and the rest are just put in from previous builds. i will OC my 7800GT to GTX speeds anyways. but you are right, i could have enough to buy a GTX by now if i hadnt splurged on the HDs...
 
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