Would you buy a PNY 9600GT or an 8800GTS XLR8 card

[Beanie46]

PNY 9600GT video card and/or a PNY 8800GTS XLR8 video card, both brand new and sealed in their respective boxes......would you buy one and for how much?

 

[Leyawiin]

What kind of 8800 GTS? 384MB? 768MB? 512MB? It makes a big difference.

 

[geokilla]

Which card? What resolution? System specs.

Off the top of my head, I'll say neither. I'd purchase another GPU such as ATI 4830 or the NVIDIA GTS250.

 

[Beanie46]

I only ask because a local auction house has a bunch of PNY 9600GT's, NIB, and a few 8800GTS, NIB, going up for auction on Saturday. Figure they are part of a bunch of junk dribbling through this auction house that came from Circuit City's closing.

Only asking as they could be a cheap replacement card for a cheapie system.......resolution, system specs are irrelevant. Ultimate price for them is and I really don't want to pay too much. Unfortunately, I cannot view them physically until an hour or so before the auction begins.....but have a photo of them and both look to be 512MB cards.

 

[vj8usa]

Originally posted by: Leyawiin
What kind of 8800 GTS? 384MB? 768MB? 512MB? It makes a big difference.

I think you're thinking 8800GS/9600GSO. The common VRAM configuration of the 8800GTS was 320/640MB (G80) or 512MB (G92).


Beanie: If it's a 512MB GTS (G92), then that's definitely better than the 9600GT. The G92 GTS is barely slower than the 9800GTX.

 

[vj8usa]

double post, whoops

 

[yh125d]

I would pay maybe $75-80 for the 8800GTS, but only if it was a 512mb, meaning G92 core. For a 9600GT or 320/640mb 8800GTS I'd only pay 55 or 60

 

[TemjinGold]

Originally posted by: yh125d
I would pay maybe $75-80 for the 8800GTS, but only if it was a 512mb, meaning G92 core. For a 9600GT or 320/640mb 8800GTS I'd only pay 55 or 60

I would pay ~$10 less than each of these quoted prices. Since this is an auction sale and PNY's customer service isn't topnotch, it should really be a deal before you pick it up. Given the recent sales online (and the fact that ATi plans on knocking $50 off their cards next month), the above quoted prices aren't much better than some of these online deals.

 

[Denithor]

Kinda depends what you're going to do with the cards.

Are you planning to use in your own system? Upgrading family/friends? Looking to resell?

For personal use or for friends upgrades I would give about $40 for 9600GT and up to $75 for 8800GTS (only if 512MB model). If the GTS is a 320MB/640MB model I wouldn't buy it unless it was extremely cheap - like around $45 or so - and for personal use I just wouldn't period.