decisions...

[noxiousCaitSith]

i'm gonna be getting an 8800gt soon. i saw 2 that i'm interested. they seem pretty much the same. there's like a 10MHz and $5 difference between them. the cheaper one comes with the game and has the higher core clock speed. but the other one (EVGA) has a limited lifetime warranty...unless the other one does and just doesn't say on the website. so any suggestions? i doubt i'd have a problem with the MSI one since it seems to be getting good reviews, but you never know. it'd probably crap out with my luck.

EVGA 8800gt


MSI 8800gt

 

[Corporate Thug]

I would go with teh eVGA for the support.

 

[noxiousCaitSith]

k that's what i was thinking...also you have a ridiculous amount of posts here so you might know what you're talking about. hehe.

 

[Oakenfold]

Do whatever makes you sleep well at night. It's only money and a videocard after all.

 

[andrei3333]

i was also looking at two different evga 8800 GT's one is stock clocked and one is superclocked

there is like a 30 dollar difference and the core is 50mhz and mem is 100mhz different,, cant i just overclock the stock card ? i like to have a card that is solid

 

[SickBeast]

You can OC the stock card, but it's a PITA in Vista. You have to disable UAC if you want to do it conveniently, and that costs you a fair bit of security.

That said, I would personally go with the stock card if the difference is $30.

 

[noxiousCaitSith]

yeah i asked the same thing on another forum. it was just a game forum though but they seemed to kinda know what they were talking about. and from what i heard, it just seems easier to get the factory overclocked ones...it just sounded like too much work for me and not very easy cause i have no experience with overclocking. and if it takes more than a couple of hours, i could have done something more productive with that time.

 

[andrei3333]

yeah similar line of thought,

i am in XP 32bit right now but will get vista sooner or later so i dont want ot have a card i have trouble overclocking in vista