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You can buy a regular 9800GT 512 for like 100 bucks anymore... No reason to get a old card like the 8600.....
As for the poster who said the 9500GT... Id rather have an 8600GT that a 9500GT. No question.
Increasing VRAM?
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New #12
Ok,
The difference between the 9 series and 8 series is actually less then what you think. 8 series can behave like a 9 if your willing to play with overclocking. Way back when? i got my 8800gtx a year ago. It was mad money. And it still plays everything i throw at it.
New is not allways better. Your just paying for a bit more clock speed and memory thats it. Check out benchmarks. Some 8800GTX. ( EVGA for eg) is still outperforming a lot of new 9 series
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New #13
From my experience, it's the letters after the model number that are the real indicators of performance.
For example, an 9800GS is likely going to be outperformed by an 8800GTX. All things being equal, a 9800GTX should perform better than an equivalent 800GTX. But just because a card is 9000 something...doesn't mean it will always outperform an 8000 something.
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New #14
indeed. but a 9500GT is (still) a quarter of the price of an 8800GTX. which was one of the OPs main concerns.
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New #15
All of this sounds great, and i learned a lot from all of your posts. But tbh i dont play a lot of graphics intense games like crysis DAILY. And on top of that im just mowings lawns haha. I make about $75 a week, school starts tomorrow so ive spent a lot on clothing and other things. I really just want to play crysis on MEDIUM with no lag. Maybe some time in the future i can bye a 9800 with a good power supply but atm i think ima stick to the 8600 1g since i bought a $50 prepaid visa card to spend on ebay.
Another thing is i have to wait a week because paypal took $1 away from that prepaid card when i added it...and what do u know i fall short literally 12 cents from the geforce 8600 gt 1GB....
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New #16
Don't be surprised if you see little to no improvement in anything with the 1 GB version of that card. More memory on the card will not make it any faster, and about the only thing it will help with is that more textures can be loaded into the cards memory.
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New #18
With all honesty, the 8600GT with 1GB probably runs crysis on medium for your friend becuase his full computer specs are higher. You will not see a huge improvement as the rest of your system is a huge bottleneck to a game like crysis. Specifically the processor.
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New #19
I have
amd 64 dual processor 6000+ 3GHz
and 4GB ram
is that processor not good enough?
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New #20
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