Gaming geforce 9800 or 8800?

[mysterio123]

which 1 should i buy?
GeForce 8800 GTX or GeForce 9800 GT

 

[TaMs]

isn't 9800 almost same as 8800?

 

[The Teej]

Unless you're anal about power consumption, go with the 8800 Ultra. It's cheaper and does the job just as well on almost every game. Of course, if you're looking for super high end, you're better off getting the Geforce GTX 280. That's the best card on the market right now.

 

[Urza]

Unless you're anal about power consumption, go with the 8800 Ultra. It's cheaper and does the job just as well on almost every game. Of course, if you're looking for super high end, you're better off getting the Geforce GTX 280. That's the best card on the market right now.
8800 Ultra is useless. Costs twice as much as a GT and gives you maybe 20% better performance (in addition to eating up considerably more power).

If you're going cheap, 8800GT is the way to go. Not sure if its the same where you are, but it runs about 120USD here compared to the 200USD+ of the 8800 Ultra.

In the 200USD+ range, the 9800 GX2 blows away the 8800 Ultra and is currently sitting at a sub-300USD price tag.

EDIT:
QUOTEisn't 9800 almost same as 8800?

That would be the 9800GT and 8800GT.

 

[penguinwarfare]

If you're getting the 8800GTX its almost better than the 280 right now. 3 GTX 280s in SLI at NVISION overclocking only beat the 3dmark record by barely 900 poitns. If price isn't that big a deal, you can get some 8800GTs or the older GTXs for a couple hundred dollars.

If you overclock your cards at all, you can get a lot more milage from them that way. The 9800s are cheaper and solid as well, but I haven't used them so I won't pretend to know for certain.

Just check price points and benchmarks on comparable system specs to your machine and see if one edges the other out.

 

[Joe88]

Unless you're anal about power consumption, go with the 8800 Ultra. It's cheaper and does the job just as well on almost every game. Of course, if you're looking for super high end, you're better off getting the Geforce GTX 280. That's the best card on the market right now.

the best card on the market is the 4870X2

the problem with nVidia right now is they have horrible bang for buck ratio which ATI is delivering for half the price on most of the cards like 4850 and 4870

 

[seedvt]

Go for a 8800GT or 9800GT.

Only difference between these cards is the die shrink on the 9800GT, which slightly helps power consumption and temperatures.