New vid card recommendation

[lupi]

Ok, here's the story: My gaming rig is running 7900's in SLI and my secondary unit has a 6800. This weekend the 6800 crapped out and I moved one of the 7900s to be able to power it up. Since the good 7 series cards still seem to cost a bit I started looking at a 8800 for the main rig and keeping one of the 7900s in the secondary. My gaming rig runs a 24" dell, so I was looking to at least get a 8800/640. I see the ultra as way overpriced for its value and did a lot of shopping around thinking about a GTX, but they too still seem to be fairly wide of the value/$ line. I would like to get something with at least enough value to last until the price for the 8800 drops significantly and the 8900 to become reasonable, at which point I can buy new for the gaming and relegate the 8800 to the secondary rig.
 
So which card would be the recommended (also is getting the 8800/640 that much better than the 880/320)
 
 
 

 

[Beatbox]

With such a monitor, you want to steer clear of the 8800GTS 320mb. While the difference is not TOO big at smaller resolution with the 640 mb, it bites the dust at 1650 and even more so 1920.

I'd get a GTX now instead of getting a GTS and a new card in a little while. The GTX should be plenty for a while.

 

[MarcVenice]

Hmz, a gts 640 will hold him over till the prices on the 8900 or new 9x00 series drop. But definately pick between the 8800gts 640 and the gtx, ultra is a overclocked gtx, and overpriced indeed. Overclock the gtx slightly and you'll be near ultra speeds for a lot less money.

 

[lupi]

I'd get a GTX now instead of getting a GTS and a new card in a little while. The GTX should be plenty for a while.

I was heavily leaning that way, but I do like to keep my secondary rig somewhat close to my primary (won't play the new FPS'es on it but will do RTS and others). I'm somewhat hoping that ATI has a better offering this winter along with the next nvidia line to reduce the 8800 ultras or the 8900 GTX (equivalent) price such that the $200 I save now on getting a GTS vice GTX will make it easy to upgrade later this year and have 88/89's in both.



Looks like I can get a good 8800/640 and stay at around $350, which is still better than the $500+ for a base GTX, so looks like I'll focus in on any 8800/640 sales over the next couple of days. I head out of town on the 4th and don't come back till next week, so hoping to find something on sale by Thursday so it will arrive at the door same time I do

 

[lupi]

Well maybe a little luck shines my way after losing some hardware. Think I may just go with thisfor now (great price/performance) which should let my main rig keep going in its current SLI config until spring of next year with no problems (and hopefully much cheaper 8800 prices).