Yea it would be ok but unless you are a multi tasking junkie its not 100% necessary at the moment. If you have vista ultimate with all the flashy stuff then yes highly recommended but it never hurts to prepare for the future.ReDevilJR wrote:
Would an additional 2 gigs of memory significantly increase my PSU usage? DDR-400. (Would it be okay to have an 8800GTX and an additional two gigs of memory - 4 total)
Exactly, but my PSU would be okay with an 8800GTX and 4 gigs of memory for the future (this summer maybe)The#1Spot wrote:
Yea it would be ok but unless you are a multi tasking junkie its not 100% necessary at the moment. If you have vista ultimate with all the flashy stuff then yes highly recommended but it never hurts to prepare for the future.ReDevilJR wrote:
Would an additional 2 gigs of memory significantly increase my PSU usage? DDR-400. (Would it be okay to have an 8800GTX and an additional two gigs of memory - 4 total)
ram needs next to no power. Even with an additional 2 sticks you are still well within the max power supplied by the psuReDevilJR wrote:
Would an additional 2 gigs of memory significantly increase my PSU usage? DDR-400. (Would it be okay to have an 8800GTX and an additional two gigs of memory - 4 total)
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Once again, thanks...!max wrote:
ram needs next to no power. Even with an additional 2 sticks you are still well within the max power supplied by the psuReDevilJR wrote:
Would an additional 2 gigs of memory significantly increase my PSU usage? DDR-400. (Would it be okay to have an 8800GTX and an additional two gigs of memory - 4 total)
Knightnifer wrote:
I have a GTX, and it's ssssswwweeeeeeeeeet!
wow are you rich or something? you're card isn't even a month new and you're switching already wow.....
I think it's somewhere around the 1W per stick mark for DDR400 (670mW for 266). DDR2 uses less.max wrote:
ram needs next to no power. Even with an additional 2 sticks you are still well within the max power supplied by the psuReDevilJR wrote:
Would an additional 2 gigs of memory significantly increase my PSU usage? DDR-400. (Would it be okay to have an 8800GTX and an additional two gigs of memory - 4 total)max wrote:
here you go
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Here is my 2 cents. I would stick with the GTS. You will not see a noticalbe deference between the cards. If you are not running SLI I would just buy a second GTS and Call it good until they get DX10 out and everyone realizes ooooooooops we didn't optimize for this DX Function. Also you may want to look at a Physics Card. See this Article PCUser.com. Now Keep in Mind "Games don’t yet make use of it in a practical sense, although some upcoming games will be able to do so. " From atricle above. Now this card would not only help you with gaming, but it will also help with Video editing and compiling of Video.
Actually, I work for my stuff... But I'm going to go with the 2900XTOscar590 wrote:
wow are you rich or something? you're card isn't even a month new and you're switching already wow.....
Eh, I made my decision; again... 2900XT, thanks though.Neoburn_1035 wrote:
Here is my 2 cents. I would stick with the GTS. You will not see a noticalbe deference between the cards. If you are not running SLI I would just buy a second GTS and Call it good until they get DX10 out and everyone realizes ooooooooops we didn't optimize for this DX Function. Also you may want to look at a Physics Card. See this Article PCUser.com. Now Keep in Mind "Games don’t yet make use of it in a practical sense, although some upcoming games will be able to do so. " From atricle above. Now this card would not only help you with gaming, but it will also help with Video editing and compiling of Video.
Forget physics cards. You'd be better off with another GTS in SLI for physics.Neoburn_1035 wrote:
Also you may want to look at a Physics Card. See this Article PCUser.com.
That article is old. the technologies they talk about nvidia and ATI experimenting with are already hitting the market - the 8800GTS incorporates additional physics processing hardware (CUDA - it's ). ATIs solutions look good too. I don't know how long we'll be seeing separate physics cards around for.
Can you inform me on what physics and SLI are?Bertster7 wrote:
Forget physics cards. You'd be better off with another GTS in SLI for physics.Neoburn_1035 wrote:
Also you may want to look at a Physics Card. See this Article PCUser.com.
That article is old. the technologies they talk about nvidia and ATI experimenting with are already hitting the market - the 8800GTS incorporates additional physics processing hardware (CUDA - it's ). ATIs solutions look good too. I don't know how long we'll be seeing separate physics cards around for.
http://www.tcmagazine.com/comments.php?shownews=14574
They should launch in May sometime.
Er, uhm. which would be better than, the 2900XT right?
Also, the fucken 8800GTS is huge, I don't think two would be the solution (Power consumption and space = HEAT)
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Are you serious?ReDevilJR wrote:
Can you inform me on what physics and SLI are?Bertster7 wrote:
Forget physics cards. You'd be better off with another GTS in SLI for physics.Neoburn_1035 wrote:
Also you may want to look at a Physics Card. See this Article PCUser.com.
That article is old. the technologies they talk about nvidia and ATI experimenting with are already hitting the market - the 8800GTS incorporates additional physics processing hardware (CUDA - it's ). ATIs solutions look good too. I don't know how long we'll be seeing separate physics cards around for.
SLI is Scalable Link Interface. It is Nvidias multi GPU solution.
Physics, well that's a branch of science dealing with the laws of the universe. In this context it is to do with CPU physics calculations within games, which can sometimes, these days, be offloaded onto a seperate physics card or processed in parallel by one or more GPUs.
That is the 2900XT.ReDevilJR wrote:
http://www.tcmagazine.com/comments.php?shownews=14574
They should launch in May sometime.
Er, uhm. which would be better than, the 2900XT right?
Yeah, might be quite big and use more power than you have. I was just pointing out it's probably a better solution for physics.ReDevilJR wrote:
Also, the fucken 8800GTS is huge, I don't think two would be the solution (Power consumption and space = HEAT)
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In Regards to the ram,you might find this interesting: )
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2x8800GTS (640MB) in SLi is faster (and costs about the same price) as 1x8800GTX
Okay, thanks... I think I'm going to wait for the 2900XT's Or 8800 Ultra... reason for switching to a new one: I'm going to be getting a 24" wide screen HD-LCD monitor... And I need a more powerful graphics card... Plus I want good FPS on Titan and while using FRAPS...
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