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charlie_82

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Being the excitable moron that I am, I bought 2 XFX 8500GT's...
I knew the cards weren't great but I thought maybe with each card being 512MB, they'd be decent on SLI... But I was wrong :mad:

I wanna sell these and get a 1GB 9600GT.

Any advice on what I can charge for this?
The cards are basically brand new, used it for about 3 days...
 
charlie_82 said:
Being the excitable moron that I am, I bought 2 XFX 8500GT's...
I knew the cards weren't great but I thought maybe with each card being 512MB, they'd be decent on SLI... But I was wrong :mad:

I wanna sell these and get a 1GB 9600GT.

Any advice on what I can charge for this?
The cards are basically brand new, used it for about 3 days...
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I am guessing not a lot :( They got for around R800 new. I have one already...Did you try more than two monitors in SLI? That is about the only reason I could see someone wanting two of them...
 
charlie_82 said:
Being the excitable moron that I am, I bought 2 XFX 8500GT's...
I knew the cards weren't great but I thought maybe with each card being 512MB, they'd be decent on SLI... But I was wrong :mad:

I wanna sell these and get a 1GB 9600GT.

Any advice on what I can charge for this?
The cards are basically brand new, used it for about 3 days...
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Sell it to a noob and you could surely get R600.
 
Dude, if you want to avoid being an excitable moron again, then get the 512mb version!
 
Wow...

Remember back in the day I had a 466 Mhz processor and was thinking of buying a motherboard that can run 2 CPU's so I could buy another 466Mhz processor ;) And thats where intel got the idea for the Duo processors :P

But who am I to talk, still on AGP8x slot.
 
No. Most cards show little to minor performance gains from added ram beyond a certain point, that point usually beiong 512mb, like the 9600gt, or 8800gt.
For the price of a 1gb 9600gt you can get the 512mb 8800gt, which will outperform it.

Large amounts of ram on medium to lower end cards is a ploy by the manufacturers, appealing to size queen noobs.
 
MrE said:
No. Most cards show little to minor performance gains from added ram beyond a certain point, that point usually beiong 512mb, like the 9600gt, or 8800gt.
For the price of a 1gb 9600gt you can get the 512mb 8800gt, which will outperform it.

Large amounts of ram on medium to lower end cards is a ploy by the manufacturers, appealing to size queen noobs.
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wow ok cool, i didn't know that...
it's just the place I'm getting it from, I can get the 1GB for under R2000 :)
 
yup that is true

if you can get the 1gb version for under 2k inc vat then go for it

be a size queen noob because thats a good price for a 9600gt 1 gig

while the 1 gig is pointless if you running 1680x1050 or lower for that price buy it
 
killadoob said:
yup that is true

if you can get the 1gb version for under 2k inc vat then go for it

be a size queen noob because thats a good price for a 9600gt 1 gig

while the 1 gig is pointless if you running 1680x1050 or lower for that price buy it
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Ah ok cool, yeah is incl vat...
I'm not running a big res now but I'm planning on getting a 22" Wide in a month or so
 
charlie_82 said:
Thanks man, cos it's gonna cost me as low as R1700. May as well right?
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I wasn't calling you a noob, it was purely a tongue in check statement on behalf of the marketing reps.

Ye if the 1GB is the same price, sure get it, but if the 512mb is even cheaper, then save yourself even more cash, cos there is absolutely no reason to shell out more for the 1GB.

Every chip OC's differently, so reviews are absolutely no way to determine whether 1 card will OC better than another.

Also: Even with a 22", you're not going to want to go higher than 1680 x 1050 with a 9600gt anyway, even it supports higher res.'s, cos you're gonna lose a lot of fps.
 
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