Going To Buy This Rig. Share Your Suggestions/Comments

[nish_higher]

^thats an awesome gfx card u have..u should not change it now..better use this card as it will keep giving u high settings for this yr's games atleast, then change it..that would be better
perhaps the only thing u should buy is some good rams,preferably 4gbpk by gskill

 

[confused]

@nish - thanks man, you opened my eyes....... would have wasted money on a 9800gtx.
only later i realized that the "8800gts 512mb" is much costlier compared to the "8800gt 512mb".
also thanks to all the others. all of you have provided ur views which has helped me to get many different perspectives.

indian prices are something like
9800gtx 512mb ->19k
8800gts 512mb ->16.5k
8800gt 512mb ->12k-14k (various brands)

and their performance can be compared here. (do check it out)

So i think i'll go for 750i ftw + 2x 8800gt SLI.
i will buy one card now. second card hopefully from the US within a month, to save some bucks.

i think i'll get the 8800gt xxx alpha dog from abroad. which one to go for now?
IMO XFX is a bit expensive. And i heard their support is bad. How true is this?

Please suggest a good 8800gt 512mb make. (maybe some OCed edition)

thanks all.

 

[ajayashish]

i think Gigabyte 8800gt card is making good news now... with awesome cooling fan and price as well

 

[nish_higher]

yea..gigabyte or MSI OC models are better than alpha dog which runs pretty hot and i dont think xfx have revised it.
that EVGA Board is good board,the only evga board i like bcoz of its capacitors

btw i just got two MSI 8800GT OC for SLi and a corsair 620HX
this card runs at 50 degree idle and around 54-55 degrees @ load..awesome

 

[ajayashish]

^^^^ well i have indeed read a lot of reviews abt Gigabyte 8800gt card as i was about to buy one for myself... it used a good chipset and a third part fan from Zalman for cooling... reviews suggest it is a perfect value for money priced at around 12500... i think Darklord got one for himself as well

 

[nish_higher]

yea mine is also the heatpipe edition with custom cooler..
i've used gigabyt turboforce edition..its cooling is not that effective , card performs same as MSI despite more clock and its noisy..
EVGA KO performs better than both but u gotta deal with some high temps though it does not have any heat issues

MSI 8800GT OC for 11850 rupees
EVGA is for 12k i think
and gigabyte is costly
leadtek i dont know..
technically acc to clocks--
in decreasing order from high to low for below 3 comparisons--


EVGA SC>XFX XXX>MSI

temps--
XFX XXX>EVGA>Gigabyte>MSI (custom cooler) = Leadtek (custom cooler) = ASUS (custom cooler)

Price-
Gigabyte>EVGA>MSI,Asus

 

[confused]

@nish - you forgot one thing

warranty/after sales
evga >> msi >> xfx

btw - 8800gt SLI is better than 9600gt SLI by a small margin right?

 

[nish_higher]

well here's single card's benches-
*en.expreview.com/img/2008/02/23/9600GT/96gt_88gt.png

i'd say 8800GT Sli for sure..i myself have asus 9600oc in other rig and difference is huge

 

[confused]

^^thanks man

 

[ancientrites]

@nish_higher: just upgraded 1gb more yesterday now i have total 3 gb ddr2 800.I think windows xp sp3 doesnt display 4 gb i m not sure about it.

 

[ajayashish]

Only 64bit Os Shows More Than 3gb Ram

 

[keith_j_snyder2]

MSI OC uses a Seaweed blade cooler which makes it low noise and and keeps the card cool than any other stock cooler.
Here u can see MSI is also using it with their other cards too!

I 've also heard that 9600GT has huge improvement in SLI but still think 8800GT would be a better one!

 

[confused]

edited my first post again........

 

[keith_j_snyder2]

Congrats!

 

[confused]

Congrats!

thanks... no proccy yet...
also i am a bit anxious to see if i have got all my psu/header connections right....

few doubts...
1>750i manual says it has 2 onboard usb headers each supporting two ports (2x2=4 usb ports) but i could find only one header.
infact the picture on the mobo carton, shows two blue coloured usb headers, but actually on the board, one is white (1394) and other is blue (usb header). why the difference?

2>if i connect front audio ports to the mobo, will i get audio from the back or not?

3>my case has two audio headers in serial (hd audio and azalia audio), should i connect both to my mobo? or only one of the two?

thanks.....