Should I buy Geforce 9800 in February or in December?

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renegadeviking

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I'm asking if I should buy the Geforce 9800 GX2 in February or December? Any ideas. It comes with 1024 MB of RAM and does DirectX 10.1. Do I need a SLI config. I have a Geforce 8800 GTX in my Christmas PC. Any ideas when I'll need it for the first DirectX 10.1 games?

When will games need this beast?
 
Will the Radeon HD 4870 X2 be significantly better then the Geforce 9800 GX2? 9800 GX2 has GDDR3 RAM while the HD 4870 X2 has GDDR5 and 1 GB of RAM. GDDR5 RAM goes up to 2 GHz. I thought all DX10.0 games take advantage of the G80 physics API, because that is the curve for now. The 4870 X2 comes out in Summer 08. The 4870 comes with half the RAM and is only single circuit board.
 
Yeah, the 9800 series is looking incredibly disappointing, having lesser specs in some respects than the GTX. I think you'll be set for a while, until better cards come out.

I'm really tempted to go SLI...
 
renegadeviking said:
I'm asking if I should buy the Geforce 9800 GX2 in February or December? Any ideas. It comes with 1024 MB of RAM and does DirectX 10.1. Do I need a SLI config. I have a Geforce 8800 GTX in my Christmas PC. Any ideas when I'll need it for the first DirectX 10.1 games?

When will games need this beast?
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DX 10.1 doesn't offer anything above and beyond, and if it did, they would've waited to implement it first, instead of releasing a new line of card in less then a year. Your 8800 GTX is already top of the line. Unless you've really got money to burn, don't bother.
 
I found out that the Geforce 9800 GX2 Quad-SLI has a lot of potential

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All the games will soon look like this above when the drivers become more sophisticated. New Forceware drivers will double the fps every few months for larger list of games.
 
That's about the only game that shows worthwhile promise with Quad-SLI.

BV, Quad-SLI is taking two graphics cards with two GPUs each on them, and running them in SLI. Driver support is still terrible, and the benefits aren't remotely spectacular.
 
trkorecky said:
That's about the only game that shows worthwhile promise with Quad-SLI.

BV, Quad-SLI is taking two graphics cards with two GPUs each on them, and running them in SLI. Driver support is still terrible, and the benefits aren't remotely spectacular.
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ok :lol I was thinking 4 graphics cards... hooked together with the little connector on top. I was thinking DANG!!

but there are some ASUS boards out there that suppoer 4 graphics cards. When I finally get money for a main PC build... I am going to build a higher end pc and experiment with some things.

So far, I am not impressed with SLI... I haven't seen a benefit... maybe I am not looking right :lol


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