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Is the 8800GTS OC an above average card?

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gamefreakgcb

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I am building a rig for a friend and I have on hand an 8800 GTS OC, About what is the limit of this card? Is it able to play todays games? Can it play 2009-2010 games at high settings?
 
It is a slow card by today's standards, it may allow you to run many games at high/mid high settings without anti aliasing at 1680x1050 or lower.
 
IMO the 8800GTS is a low-midrange card... with a massive TDP. You may be able to play some newer games at respectable framerates with the settings turned down. Also if it's a 320MB it's garbage. 640MB is ok though.

Edit: Don't feel too bad though. My friend is still on a 8600GTS on his secondary rig. (4850+i7 920 on his primary)
 
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Here is a review from 2008 with a couple different 8800's there.
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/amd_radeon_hd_4850_geforce_9800_gtx+/page5.asp
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Above average? Maybe for BestBuy shoppers. But barely average for SteamSurvey. And definitely not for VC&G forum readers. 😉
 
If it's the 8800gts 640, it's about equivalent to a AMD HD5670 today. That's a good entry-level card. If it's the 8800gts 320, it's probably equivalent to a gt240, which is a low-end card. You won't be able to play any 2010 games at high settings, and some won't work at medium settings.
 
If your friend plays at lower resolutions (1680x1050 or so) it should play most current games just fine. The nerds here just get in a flutter if you don't have the bleeding edge card that runs everything at the highest res at ultra settings.

I've got a spare pc that is an old E2130 Pentium (Core2) with an 8800GT in it and it plays pretty much anything just fine. Obviously cant max out settings or anything but it's definitely playable.

Hell I gave a PC to a buddy that has a 8600GTS in it (which is nowhere near an 8800) and he plays Left 4 Dead 2 and a few other newer titles on it. Heck I think he plays New Vegas on it, but he did say that one chugs in certain parts.
 
Joseph F said:
IMO the 8800GTS is a low-midrange card... with a massive TDP. You may be able to play some newer games at respectable framerates with the settings turned down. Also if it's a 320MB it's garbage. 640MB is ok though.

Edit: Don't feel too bad though. My friend is still on a 8600GTS on his secondary rig. (4850+i7 920 on his primary)
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This is very true. Lots of power for current midrange performance, which is really good enough to play just about everything out there as long as you're cool with setting some sliders to medium.

The 512MB version should be easier on the power and higher in performance, I think... Closer to the 9800 GTX.
 
If it's the 512mb version then it's a decent low-mid level card. If your friend doesn't have to turn up all the graphics then he should be fine. I played some Battlefield BC2 with a 8800gts 320mb card at 2048X1152 resolution and it actually did okay. Everything was low settings but I was actually surprised how good it looked even at those settings.
 
I have an 8800GTS 320mb. It's certainly not cutting edge, but works fine for Fallout: New Vegas and EVE Online. I recently had the cooling fan on mine die which led me to consider replacing it, but for now I improvised a cooling solution with a PCI slot cooler until I find a game I'm interested in that requires more graphical *oomph*
 
Its the 640MB version (Shows Dedicated Video Memory as 640MB). Thanks guys. I lost my "need to have the bleeding edge in tech" a few years ago.
 
I disagree. The average is actually very low since the majority of computers will ship with low/mid or integrated gpus. So I think going by pure numbers of computers in the world, I'd say 8800GTS is above average.
That being said I'd estimate an 8800GTS 640 at roughly a GTS 240, 430, or 5670 level of performance.
 
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I disagree. The average is actually very low since the majority of computers will ship with low/mid or integrated gpus. So I think going by pure numbers of computers in the world, I'd say 8800GTS is above average.
That being said I'd estimate an 8800GTS 640 at roughly a GTS 240, 430, or 5670 level of performance.
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a gts240 is just on oem re badged 9800gt which of course is a re badged 8800gt. an 8800gts 640 is closer to a 9600gt.
 
Can it play 2009-2010 games at high settings?
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1920x resolutions + high settings from a 2009-2010 game?
No... that wont happend with a 8800 GTS.


Current mid-range is something like a 460 1gb or 6850.
both can be found for around 140-150$ mark, with the 6850 being a little faster, but costing a little more. Both cards are pretty good value though, offer alot of performance for their price tags, and both overclock pretty well.
 
no, its very average, if not below average

it'll run newer games but you'll need to run medium if not low settings + lower resolution if you want to maintain frame rates that won't induce hair loss
 
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I disagree. The average is actually very low since the majority of computers will ship with low/mid or integrated gpus. So I think going by pure numbers of computers in the world, I'd say 8800GTS is above average.
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It is now where near an "average card" today - definitely low end.

Just because most systems ship without a card and use only integrated graphics does not make this an average card. It may make a system faster than the average system, when you include all systems including those not intended for gaming, but still it is not an avarage card.
 
I finally took my venerable 8800GTS 640 out of my secondary PC just last week. I was actually pretty bummed about it. I think I used that card longer than any other video card I've ever owned, going back to the Voodoo1 days. Damn fine card for its time, that.
 
8800 =~ 9800 =~ GTS 250, which I have, and which trades blows with the GTS 450 in everything but CUDA, where it gets its ass handed to it.

The GTS 450 is considered midrange.

With 640 MBs of VRAM, I'd drop it in and not worry about it. But then again, I'm only gaming at 1280x1024.
 
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