Video card recommendations!! thx!

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RollerX

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Hi, I am looking for some recommendations on video cards for the new system i'm building. :)

I will probably get a DFI NF4 Ultra D SLI mobo, and I need the best high end video cards that can also be effectively oc'd (if there are such cards in the market right now), price is not a concern at this point.

Will I need extra cooling if I want to oc the cards? if so, which cooler would be the best? I kind of don't want to use water again after building my current watercooled system.

Sorry for being a n00b but i've been out of the vid card market for a while, my current vid card is a 9800 pro bought about two years ago.. so, help me out! TIA!
 
hmm if you dont care about money, get the 7800gtx 512mb which cost around 700+ each, if you can find them.

for effective oc'ing cards, the x1800xl is good, but you have a sli board. The other thing is that its also relatively hotter than a 7800gt
 
The best card out right now is the 7800GTX 512, if you can find it, if not you might want to go with the ATi X1800XT 512MB, but your mobo is SLi not CF, so you might want to look at just the regular 7800GTX, unless you don't plan on going SLi...
 
you mean this one?

the cooling set up looks awesome, is there room left to play with or did they push it to the limit at factory already? i like to oc stuff... :p
 
Hexus0 said:
but your mobo is SLi not CF, so you might want to look at just the regular 7800GTX, unless you don't plan on going SLi...
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are ATI crossfire chipset based boards any good compared to nf4 sli boards?
 
RollerX said:
are ATI crossfire chipset based boards any good compared to nf4 sli boards?
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The boards will basically work the same. Its just the cards you will have in SLi or CF which will make the differents.
But if I was you I'd stick to Nvidia and SLi. And if I was you again...I would not blow $700 bucks on a video card. Just a normal 256mb 7800GTX is still pwnage in anyones case and they are only about what $480 nowdays? And when prices do fall...Either grab another 7800GTX or sell your current one and grab a 512mb version of it.

But its up to you of course.
 
RollerX said:
you mean this one?

the cooling set up looks awesome, is there room left to play with or did they push it to the limit at factory already? i like to oc stuff... :p
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The manufacturers OC them a bit already, even thought hey can be pushed a bit further. The cores are slightly tweaked and optimized to allow for such higher clocks over the regular GTX.

The problem with the GTX 512 is that there is VERY little supply and they are already going to be phased out soon. The MSRP is $700 but they are sold for $750 and up because supply is so little. If you can find one (doubt it) you could get the X1800 XT or a regular 7800 GTX. Hell you could get 2 GTXs for ~$800-900 total and run them in SLI.
 
thanks for all of your inputs so far!! :)

My next question is.. should I get a single X1800XT or two 7800GTX in SLI? Would I notice any difference? If not, then I don't want to waste the extra $3-400.. I have a 8ms LCD monitor by the way. Should I get this 2ms monitor?
 
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