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Old July 25th, 2008, 06:10 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Which card is better - ATI Radeon 4870 or Nvidia POV 8800GTS

Building my first gaming PC - but can't decide between these 2 graphics cards.

No idea about these kinda things - which one is better?

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Old July 25th, 2008, 06:15 PM     #2 (permalink)
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Old July 26th, 2008, 12:41 AM     #3 (permalink)
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The 4870 would destroy the 8800GTS.
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The 4870 would destroy the 8800GTS.

upside down and inside out, even more so if your talking about the old version of the GTS (G80 core)
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Just out of curiosity’s sake what are the other specs on that system there?
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That looks like a solid system so far.
One thing I would recommend is that you get this drive instead. It's $10 more, but it's faster and 140Gb bigger.

As far as a motherboard, do you plan on overclocking? Do you want something that will support crossfire for later upgrades?
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That looks like a solid system so far.
One thing I would recommend is that you get this drive instead. It's $10 more, but it's faster and 140Gb bigger.

As far as a motherboard, do you plan on overclocking? Do you want something that will support crossfire for later upgrades?

Drive added to the basket! Yes I probably will want to do some overclocking and will also want to use Crossfire once the bank balance gets topped up again.
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Old July 26th, 2008, 10:47 PM     #10 (permalink)
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Thanks for those motherboard options, I'm most interested in the Asus P5Q Deluxe P45 out of that list. However it might be stretching my budget just a little too much - although I may want to use Crossfire in the future, I don't think I will be overclocking things to their maximum, probably just the E8400 to around 3.6GHZ, for example.

Could I get by using an ABIT IP35 Pro iP35 ABIT IP35 Pro iP35 Socket 775 8 channel audio ATX Motherboard - Ebuyer, or is it really worth spending the extra £30 for the Asus P5Q Deluxe P45?
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