For graphics card which one should I get? The NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra or the XFX 7950 GX2 QUAD SLI. I heard their both good, but what are the differences? For sound card which one should I get? The Sound Blaster X-Fi Elite or the Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum. Give me information that I might need to knoe about the cards. Thanks a lot!
2007-06-17 04:35:54 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
I'll defer to others on the soundcard, but for the graphics card:
The 7950 GX2 is essentially a pair of 7950s mounted together in a frame, for SLI performance on a single PCI-E slot. Link a pair of 7950s in SLI mode and you esssentially got quad 7950s, which will destroy the sound barrier if your power supply can keep em happy.
For a single card, you can't beat the 8800 Ultra. It supports DX10, though we don't know how much that will really matter. By the time DX10 is widely adopted there will probably be a newer generation of hardware. For really shader-heavy games it has 128 shader processors. But In most cases a pair of 7950 GX2s will outperform it, and you're looking at a total of 2GB of video memory vs 768mb. Still, with a single 8800 Ultra you can still go SLI later on, making for more of an apples to apples comparison.
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But keep in mind, games have more issues with SLI than anything else. And SLI under Vista? Heh, take a number. But if you just want flat-out optimum performance *for the price* and don't mind having maybe 85% of your games work properly while Nvidia crushes SLI bugs, go for the two cards.
Here are the specs on the individual cards:
2007-06-17 05:57:14 · answer #1 · answered by Proto 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To answer your video card question, the GeForce 8800 Ultra is more future proof, so you can't go wrong there. When DirectX 10 comes out, you will be ready.
For your sound card question, it depends on what features you will need and what you plan to do with it. X-Fi Elite is sufficient as an "install and go." If you want more software features and want to manipulate the sound field more, than you might consider platinum. I think it comes with a remote too which I could care less about since I don't need a remote control to play games on my computer.
2007-06-17 05:05:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
picture playing cards and sound playing cards artwork at the same time in a manner. because you upgraded the video card try updating the integrated sound card's driver from the motherboard's producer's internet website or the computing gadget's producer's internet website it must be basically a remember of an previous driver this is inflicting the subject
2016-10-09 09:37:16 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When I'm searching for "which is better" I always go to Cnet.com and look for users reviews on the items I'm interested in. Will your MB support SLI? It's much faster(like twice) than AGP 8x. It's usually only on the newer boards at this time! Check before buying! Good luck! ;-)=
2007-06-17 05:00:20 · answer #4 · answered by Jcontrols 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋