8800gtx VS 8800gts

[RanmaBoyType]

<p>anyone who has experience with these 2 cards please provide some infos.  Im not a PC noob.  i knwo what each of these cards can do, my question remains as to whether or not it is actually worth the $200 or so extra that the gtx is over the gts.  if eq2, and other games of this time are barely touching the gtx, then i see no reason to go that route.</p>

[willnotuse]

More of a matter of how much memory does each card have.  Pick the one that has the most. 

[Derrmerth2]

<p>Save yourself the $200 bucks and get a 8800 GTS 640MB instead of the GTX. With either card, this game will leave the GPU not fully used. I have a 8800 GTS 640 myself and the cards full ability and memory are never fully tapped.</p><p>The other thing is this game was designed when 512MB was the very top edge of video card memory. I have no solid proof on hand, but once you pass that mark, I don't think it matters very much.</p>

[Killerbee3000]

depends, if you have a big tft (talking 24" and up) the GTX is pretty much required since tft's hate being run below native resolution... but, if you run games at a "normal" resolution the GTS is the way to go.

[Hardain]

<cite>willnotuse wrote:</cite><blockquote>More of a matter of how much memory does each card have.  Pick the one that has the most.  </blockquote>No, memory doesn't mean much if the card lacks power, you only need high amount of memory(512+) if you play on high resolutions , like 1600+, and even at 1600* 320mb GTS will perform very well. For 1280*1024 you only need 256-320mb.

[willnotuse]

<cite>Hardain@Runnyeye wrote:</cite><blockquote><cite>willnotuse wrote:</cite><blockquote>More of a matter of how much memory does each card have.  Pick the one that has the most.  </blockquote>No, memory doesn't mean much if the card lacks power, you only need high amount of memory(512+) if you play on high resolutions , like 1600+, and even at 1600* 320mb GTS will perform very well. For 1280*1024 you only need 256-320mb.</blockquote>Actually for this game no.  I've tested it.  Others have tested it and even posted it here on the tech forum.  Resolution of the game has no impact on the performance of the game if no other setting of the game is changed.   This partly goes back to the fact that so much of the graphical features are CPU dependent.  However, the amount of memory comes into play as does the memory bandwidth as you crank up the texture resolution in the game.  Naturally you want the fastest performance possible.  So if you are at a low resolution like 1024 but on extreme graphics with a 1Tb memory video card (which do exist) naturally you would want that card to have the fastest onboard memory and widest bandwidth possible (sorry but 128 will not cut it).  However, if you are going to kick up the memory textures to maximum as I tend to do I suggest you have at least 2Gb of system memory.  Especially if you go to Neriak often.