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HaX

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I recently ordered a evga 8800gts 320mb video card; however, I wanted to leave room for upgrades. I thought about doing sli in the future.. and i heard that if I were to put the card in sli that the ram wouldn't be doubled. So I canceled the order. I'm now thinking of getting a 8800GTX... in the next week or two. I'm looking forward to games like 'Crysis' and 'The Witcher'..and i just recently got STALKER. so this upgrade will be from a x850xt pe to the geforce 8 series.. my question is.. should I wait a bit longer till prices drop.. or will prices stay the same for awhile?
 
I think the prices will stay. Nvidia has no real competition right now, and so they will milk it.
 
I would suggest at least a 640MB GTS, those who bought the 320MB will see in future games their mistake.
 
The 640gts is pretty much the sweet spot for games right now, you can get on for 330 or so on newegg, they are running a promotion for 30 dollars off any 640gts. Unless you are playing at a high resolution it should suit you fine until later. And prices arent really going to drop on the high end nvida stuff since ati's offering wasnt what was expected, only thing you might see go down are the lower end video cards such as the 8600gts and such.
http://promotions.newegg.com/NVIDIA/GF880/index.html
 
im struggling on what to do now... I'll be selling my current desktop so I won't have a computer for a few days till i put together my other gaming rig. I can build the computer right now .. I just need a case. I'm torn between going all out on my desktop and purchasing the 8800gtx, more ram, better hard drive... or getting a 17" notebook with like a 7900GS in it..

I like computer performance...but.. when i go to lan parties it'd be much easier to just bring a laptop. what to do... got any ideas?
 
you could get a sff case and build that as your computer, it would be a tight fit to a gts in there but it can be done. I havent built one, but Im sure one of the guys in the sff forum could help you with it. But honestly if it was me, I would go all out on the desktop, but is the portability to lan parties all you're looking for? Or is this something that you would want to play in the airport or something along those lines? :p
 
HaX said:
should I wait a bit longer till prices drop.. or will prices stay the same for awhile?
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The prices won't stay the same.
There is a lot of new ATI inventory coming to the store shelves.
You guys can say whatever you want about the ATI's current crop of the 80nm cards.
The truth is, the new 65nm ATI parts are just around the corner.
Who knows, ATI just might fix whatever the problems it has right now.
 
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