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n0nsensical · 11-05-2005, 11:40 PM

Well, sure, it's easy to just say get the best video card on the market. The point of getting a lesser card is to save money without losing too much. The framerate difference between the GTX and GT is not large. I wouldn't pay $100 more than a GT for one, maybe not even $50. At $350 for an X850 XT PE I would definitely get the GT instead, though the former is not a bad card especially if you play mostly Half-Life 2 like me.

Also, the point of SLI is not simply to get the best performance in existence. It also offers a decent upgrade path in the future, when your model video card becomes cheap you can just pop in another one and get a big performance boost for not too much money. I think you'd be better off spending a little more for an SLI motherboard than a lot more for a 7800 GTX, but hey if you find a cheap GTX you might go for it.

11-05-2005, 11:40 PM	#15 (permalink)
n0nsensical Junkie Location: San Francisco	Well, sure, it's easy to just say get the best video card on the market. The point of getting a lesser card is to save money without losing too much. The framerate difference between the GTX and GT is not large. I wouldn't pay $100 more than a GT for one, maybe not even $50. At $350 for an X850 XT PE I would definitely get the GT instead, though the former is not a bad card especially if you play mostly Half-Life 2 like me. Also, the point of SLI is not simply to get the best performance in existence. It also offers a decent upgrade path in the future, when your model video card becomes cheap you can just pop in another one and get a big performance boost for not too much money. I think you'd be better off spending a little more for an SLI motherboard than a lot more for a 7800 GTX, but hey if you find a cheap GTX you might go for it. Last edited by n0nsensical; 11-06-2005 at 03:45 AM..