9800GX2 vs GTX 260 FTW Edition!?!?

[mf2385]

These cards are priced pretty closely together, not considering price, performance, temperature, PSU, which one would be the best one to get, the 260 FTW Edition is about 370 and you can get a GX2 for like 400 now.



Thanks

 

[mathiasschnell]

GX2 all the way if you have to have a single-slot solution. Otherwise, get a 4870 or SLI a pair of 8800GTs, you'd get about the same performance.

 

[dos1986]

Dont touch the Gx2.I had it, micro stuttering is real with that one.

Where you buying, gtx 260 can be had much cheaper?

Gtx 260 is a class card as is HD4870, get which ever one is cheapest.

 

[mf2385]

idk...

 

[mf2385]

I like this card a lot, it performs just about as well as the GTX 280...


http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=3952605&body=WARRANTY#tabs

 

[dos1986]

It matches the 280 out of the box and beats it when overclocked.

With a factory overclocked video card there is usually not too much left on the table for the enthusiast to gain on top of the speeds the manufacturer has pulled from the silicon. The stock (If you can call it that) speeds of the FTW edition GTX 260 are 666MHz on the GPU core and 1107MHz on the memory. These "Factory Overclocked" speeds are already 90 and 107 MHz higher than the "stock" specifications. It looks as though EVGA left a little on the table when it came to the clock speeds. I was able to ratchet the GPU core up another 96MHz and the memory another 101MHz. This brings the total overclock from the stock settings on the GPU core to 186MHz and 208MHz on the GDDR3 memory. Both of these clock speed increases are huge. By comparison, I was only able to pull 110MHz out of the GPU core and 147MHz out of the memory on the GTX280 I recently reviewed. I guess the EVGA GTX 260 earned its FTW wings today!

http://www.overclockersclub.com/reviews/evga_gtx260/

The evga precision overclocking tool is brillant and the step up program is class too, so when Nvidia bring out the 55nm stuff you can take advantage of it.

Go for it.

 

[mf2385]

thanks i will