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Aug 9^th, 2009 at 11:42pm

nabeel Offline
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I'm looking at the HD4890 or the GTX 275, according to my budget.

Rest of the system is a C2D E6750 @ 3.1 ghz IIRC. Seems like nvidia is the consensus on the better card to go with... doing some searching, but can't find much about the 4890. Any suggestions?

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Reply #1 - Aug 10^th, 2009 at 12:35am

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That sucks. My 8800 Ultra died on me last January. Replaced it with the GTX 285

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Reply #2 - Aug 10^th, 2009 at 4:25am

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What are you mainly playing, if you are playing FSX go with GTX 275.

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Reply #3 - Aug 10^th, 2009 at 8:21am

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Tell me.How can you kill a 8800 Ultra???? Shocked

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Reply #4 - Aug 10^th, 2009 at 9:43am

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I remember reading somewhere there was a high rate of failure on the 8800 series, because of manufacturing defects. The few months after they came out there was a huge hulabaloo over it. I'm assuming that's what happened to mine - it died after 2 years. I have other graphics cards which still work after 10+ years (I have a few old desktops lying around...)

I'm mostly running FSX, so I went with the GTX. A play a few other games too, but won't make a difference with those, really (team fortress 2, steam engine).

I <3 newegg, ordered yesterday, should get it tomorrow Cheesy

Thanks guys

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Reply #5 - Aug 10^th, 2009 at 10:42am

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Nvidia

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Reply #6 - Aug 10^th, 2009 at 2:09pm

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757200ba wrote on Aug 10^th, 2009 at 8:21am:

Tell me.How can you kill a 8800 Ultra???? Shocked

I dunno.... Cry

COMPLETED: If Anyone Cares, Here's A Map Of My Current FSX Flight Around The World

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Reply #7 - Aug 10^th, 2009 at 6:42pm

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I run the dogsqueezium out of mine. My machine is on twelve to fourteen hours a day when I am home to fool around with it. Never had any problems. Been doing this since March 2008. I have two of the same in reserve should a failure occur...

My system: AMD Phenom 9500 cpu, 2 x eVGA e-GeForce 8800GTS Superclocked vidcards (640Mb DDR3 each), Zalman "sunflower" 9700 fan, Gigabyte GA-M57SLI-S4 mobo, 4Gb G.Skill PC2-6400 DDR2 800Mhz RAM, 2 x Sony 20X DVD writers, Thermaltake Toughpower 850W modular p/s, 7 x 120mm fans, Windows XP Home and SP3, 2 x 250Gb Western Digital SATA-300 HDs (1 for apps, 1 for storage and precious files backup), CoolerMaster CM 690 case, NOD-32. Won't run FSX. Locks up a lot with FS9, too.

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Reply #8 - Aug 13^th, 2009 at 11:17am

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Well, got the 275. A few FPS boost, but the IQ is much, much better. I was surprised at that. Jacked some of the scenery settings too, so I'm happy

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