9800gt

killadoob said:
Couple of years, dude they said that when it came out a year and half ago :p

Anyways it's not like it won't run games but damn for that price eish like brawler says
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I have to agree... sorry to rub it in mate, but that is an exceptional price, just not in a good way.
Next time, come talk to us before you buy ;)
 
Yep. It burns! Lesson learned! Frikken expensive though. Never again do I do anything without consulting the wizards here...

What was I thinking?

Usually exhaustively research these types of things, //kicks myself./

Well, hope the OP gets s decent deal...
 
@budza

dude if it does what u want it to do, then thats all that matters.

at least you didnt buy a 8400GS from incredible connection for like R2000 :D
 
tinman said:
@budza

dude if it does what u want it to do, then thats all that matters.

at least you didnt buy a 8400GS from incredible connection for like R2000 :D
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OMG are you serious???
Thats just insane! Shame, all the poor noobs they must've ripped off
 
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For you guys thinking if you should go 512mb or 1GB cards, I've done some research

1GB vid ram is only needed if you run 1920x1200 resolution and higher 24 and 26" screens

512mb is fine for everything up to 1650x1050 (20" and 22" LCD's)

stay away from 256mb cards!

It's important to remember that larger screens are getting cheaper. You can pick up a Samsung 24" T240 for about R4200 now. That's what good 22" screens cost 2 years ago (taking exchange rate into account, it used to cost R3500)

I've got a 8800 GTS 640MB graphics card. My friend has a 8800GTS 320mb overclocked. He used to have frame rates about 20% faster than mine, but since we switched to 1920x1200, I get 'n massive 40% faster frame rates.

So if you if you think that you will buy a 1920x1200 resolution screen in the next year or so, go for a 1GB card. If not than get the 512mb 4850.
 
Defective-Nvidia-Graphics-Cards-Confirmed-In-Desktops


i think you bought a little hasty, read this :

http://gizmodo.com/5063105/defective-nvidia-graphics-cards-confirmed-in-desktops

and this :

http://gizmodo.com/5035980/inquirer...8800-9600-and-9800-graphics-card-is-defective

And even worse, we live in a third world country and our suppliers love buying cheap imports and selling at full price, im pretty sure that alot of the defected chips made their way to this side of the world. Also our stock lies on shelves for months.....

I WOULD STAY FAR AWAY FROM NVIDIA FOR A WHILE, they not exactly trust worthy at the moment, even if you are a fanboy ....

Rather get an ATI, atleast you know it was a smart buy.
 
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learn to separate sensationalist FUD from the truth. The faulty GPUs are unlikely to be in any retail card you buy, but in OEM units and of which there are specific units...
Also helps to check the date of the articles you read. 14th October isn't exactly new ;)
 
Keeper said:
don't you need to have a business to be able to buy from pcint though?
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No, anyone can buy. However killa's price he linked is worse than the computersonly price (once you add VAT). I'd rather deal with computersonly than PCInt and their shipping is likely cheaper. PCInt charge quite a lot outside of JHB.
 
well im glad that alot of you seem to have alot of confidence in spending your money.

But i live buy the old rule - where there's smoke, there is most likely fire. Nvidia has admitted in a public statement that some of the GPU's are faulty.

I wouldnt chance it, maybe the cards in S.A. are faulty, maybe they arent, but im not willing to risk my hard earned cash finding out. The cards dont blow right away and chances are they will most likely have an average of around 2 years before bonging out, so you wouldnt even know until out of warranty if your card is really faulty or not.

I do know a friend of mine bought an MSI laptop from pinnacle micro and his 8600gts turned out to be a defected GPU.

And there is nothing wrong with me spreading word of caution to the op, i wouldnt be a very good fellow mybroadband user if i didnt, so dont flame me for it and say it's rubbish, because it aint.
 
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amaedict said:
well im glad that alot of you seem to have alot of confidence in spending your money.

But i live buy the old rule - where there's smoke, there is most likely fire. Nvidia has admitted in a public statement that some of the GPU's are faulty.

I wouldnt chance it, maybe the cards in S.A. are faulty, maybe they arent, but im not willing to risk my hard earned cash finding out. The cards dont blow right away and chances are they will most likely have an average of around 2 years before bonging out, so you wouldnt even know until out of warranty if your card is really faulty or not.

I do know a friend of mine bought an MSI laptop from pinnacle micro and his 8600gts turned out to be a defected GPU.

And there is nothing wrong with me spreading word of caution to the op, i wouldnt be a very good fellow mybroadband user if i didnt, so dont flame me for it and say it's rubbish, because it aint.
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well that's for the news flash back... i'm pretty sure we all know about the defective cards and there life span. but call me stupid, and hang me by my balls, but i'm pretty sure 90% of people will upgrade there pc's in 2 years... so if the card lasts 2 years, then i'm pretty darn sure that once it fails it gives them more reason to upgrade.
but yes, it's atrocious of Nvidia to sell off defective products and the products should last at least 10 years.
 
scotty777 said:
well that's for the news flash back... i'm pretty sure we all know about the defective cards and there life span. but call me stupid, and hang me by my balls, but i'm pretty sure 90% of people will upgrade there pc's in 2 years... so if the card lasts 2 years, then i'm pretty darn sure that once it fails it gives them more reason to upgrade.
but yes, it's atrocious of Nvidia to sell off defective products and the products should last at least 10 years.
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i'm sorry but that just sounds plain f@cking stupid !

you would go out and spend R2000 or more on a product that might be defective and might blow at anytime when there are far better cards at similar prices which arent defective on the market ??

THAT IS RETARDED !

Glad your'e not my brother, i would have slapped you silly if you wasted your money like that around me ....



the estimated lifetime on a defective nvidia card is 2 years, it doesnt mean it will last that long, it might never blow and it could go at anytime, you gonna have to chance it. what does extend its life is limiting how many times you boot your pc, in other words if you have one, try keep pc on all the time.

regardless tho, ATI cards are far superior to the 8 or 9 series nvidia cards and a much safer route...
 
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amaedict said:
i'm sorry but that just sounds plain f@cking stupid !

you would go out and spend R2000 or more on a product that might be defective and might blow at anytime when there are far better cards at similar prices which arent defective on the market ??

THAT IS RETARDED !

Glad your'e not my brother, i would have slapped you silly if you wasted your money like that around me ....



the estimated lifetime on a defective nvidia card is 2 years, it doesnt mean it will last that long, it might never blow and it could go at anytime, you gonna have to chance it. what does extend its life is limiting how many times you boot your pc, in other words if you have one, try keep pc on all the time.

regardless tho, ATI cards are far superior to the 8 or 9 series nvidia cards and a much safer route...
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well, yes, for R2000 there are better products, but the 9800gt is priced at R1700+-(depending on what brand). now at R1700, it's a FAR cry from the R2500 which is the best price you can get a HD4850 at...

I'm sorry, but there's a chance that I might get struck by lightening, a chance that a car would hit me... but we don't worry much about that do we? Most warranties last about 1-3 years... but you covered by the off chance of hardware failure...

yes, it is a risk, but so what? there's a risk of any piece of hardware failing...


I see you new here, could you rather like try not calling me stupid and retarded... I'm entitled to an opinion just as you are, but for you to insult me like that. I don't think that's what this for needs
 
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regardless tho, ATI cards are far superior to the 8 or 9 series nvidia cards and a much safer route...
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Really? How do you figure that?

HD2XXX and HD3XXX series are an absolute waste of time which is what allowed the GF8 series to last from 2006 up until 2008. There simply was no competition from ATI.
Lets examine this closely
In the HD2XXX series the best card was the HD2900XT, was this better than the 8800GTX/Ultra at the time, no! In almost every single game save for Call Of Juarez the Geforce cards were anything from noticeably faster to significantly faster. Look it up if you have any doubts... The rest of the HD2K sereis wasn't even worth bothering about...

HD3XXX was better but still failed to do anything useful for ATI. HD3870 the highest performing single GPU part from the family was slower than the R2,000 GeForce 8800GT. The 3850 is about the same speed as the 8800GS at best every other time its slower.
The 3870X2 while faster than the 8800GTX was more than 14month late after the card it was competing with and even then it won synthetic tests, and lost some very crucial game tests. E.g Crysis amongst others...

The HD4XXX is where ATI may have gotten a lead and managed to give NVIDIA some very stiff competition. HD4870 made sure GTX280 and GTX260 prices dropped, in fact a new GTX260 216 came out because of the power of the 4870. Catalyst drivers improved dramatically. HD4870X2 is without a doubt the fastest single graphics card money can buy....

However right now, with Big Bang drivers (rel180) from NVIDIA, a GTX260 is almost always faster than HD4870 with Catalyst 8.11. The GTX260 is the same price.
The GTX280 also came down in price, but is faster than 4870 as it has always been but obviously slower than 4870X2.

For the fastest Graphics configuration money can buy, you have to go to NVIDIA 3-way GTX280 SLI, and not 4-way CrossfireX.
With NVIDIA you'll get
Hardware Physics
Accelerated video encoding you can use now
Better compatibility
Cooler running cards
lower power consumption cards
Quiter running cards

Get one thing clear, ATI has come a long way and they deliver impressive performance per dollar. However as complete products they hav some distance before they can claim to be a match for NVIDIA solutions.
 
ShockG said:
Really? How do you figure that?

HD2XXX and HD3XXX series are an absolute waste of time which is what allowed the GF8 series to last from 2006 up until 2008. There simply was no competition from ATI.
Lets examine this closely
In the HD2XXX series the best card was the HD2900XT, was this better than the 8800GTX/Ultra at the time, no! In almost every single game save for Call Of Juarez the Geforce cards were anything from noticeably faster to significantly faster. Look it up if you have any doubts... The rest of the HD2K sereis wasn't even worth bothering about...

HD3XXX was better but still failed to do anything useful for ATI. HD3870 the highest performing single GPU part from the family was slower than the R2,000 GeForce 8800GT. The 3850 is about the same speed as the 8800GS at best every other time its slower.
The 3870X2 while faster than the 8800GTX was more than 14month late after the card it was competing with and even then it won synthetic tests, and lost some very crucial game tests. E.g Crysis amongst others...

The HD4XXX is where ATI may have gotten a lead and managed to give NVIDIA some very stiff competition. HD4870 made sure GTX280 and GTX260 prices dropped, in fact a new GTX260 216 came out because of the power of the 4870. Catalyst drivers improved dramatically. HD4870X2 is without a doubt the fastest single graphics card money can buy....

However right now, with Big Bang drivers (rel180) from NVIDIA, a GTX260 is almost always faster than HD4870 with Catalyst 8.11. The GTX260 is the same price.
The GTX280 also came down in price, but is faster than 4870 as it has always been but obviously slower than 4870X2.

For the fastest Graphics configuration money can buy, you have to go to NVIDIA 3-way GTX280 SLI, and not 4-way CrossfireX.
With NVIDIA you'll get
Hardware Physics
Accelerated video encoding you can use now
Better compatibility
Cooler running cards
lower power consumption cards
Quiter running cards

Get one thing clear, ATI has come a long way and they deliver impressive performance per dollar. However as complete products they hav some distance before they can claim to be a match for NVIDIA solutions.
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yes, very true, but go easy on him shock, he's still new here :D
 
Dude get a wakeup call.you need a to be shocked.forget about the past and concentrate on whats best for buc.we not interested how ati and nvidia came out with all diffrerent cards over the years.by the post i can see you a nvidia fanboy.you just cannot admit that ati is raping nvidia at the moment with speed and price wise.you sound like an aunty with a we panty.

just be grateful bcause of ati that nvidia's prices has dropped
:D:D:D
 
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