Torn between choices, please help!

[Hercusleaze]

Hello everyone. I'm the new guy.

Anyway, I'm about to order a shitload of stuff from Newegg. My list consists of, but is not limited to:

Antec Performance Plus Grey SOHO case
Fortron 350watt PS
Abit NF7
HIS Hightech 9800pro (with that massive VGA silencer on it stock)
2x 512 Mushkin Blueline PC2700
Vantec Aeroflow CPU cooler

You see, I'm on a $700 budget. Roughly. I'm at about 730 right now. That's acceptable. I am torn between this 9800Pro (Likely to softmod to XT and overclock...) or get a single strip of 512mb Mushkin memory to keep the price down, and get that deal on the EVGA Geforce 6800.

I saw a post almost below mine where it's said the 6800 is comparable if not faster than the 9800xt (would have posted this there, but I didn't want to hijack his thread). Now, the the real question is, What would you do? A gig of good memory, or 512 and a better video card? It's gotta be one or the other for me....

Thanks a bunch!

Nick

 

[tranCendenZ]

How about you get the memory and the card?

pny 6800 $250 on sale
http://www.buy.com/retail/product.asp?sku=10376098&loc=101&sp=1

 

[advanced101101]

I would say get the better video card now, you can always upgrade memory later

 

[bobsaget]

yeah, although really nice to have... the 1 gig of memory isn't totally necessary just yet.

Get the 6800.

 

[Hercusleaze]

Saw the pny card, but i'm not buying from 2 different companies, I do all my business through newegg, thanks for the help though!

As for advanced and sagets replies, 'tis good to hear. I've been doing more thinking about it as well. See, the Hightech 9800pro is 239. The 6800 from Newegg is 289. So I really only need to open up 50 dollars worth of space in my cart. So, If I only get one stick of memory, Its gonna be badass! Since I can spend about 180 on it.

Thanks for the help!

Mushkin Black Perf lvl 2 "2-2-2" here I come...

 

[advanced101101]

So I really only need to open up 50 dollars worth of space in my cart. .

Good choice, have fun