BF2S Forums 2 x 7900 GT cards OR 1 x 7900 GTX card

7900 GTX Listing on eBay


plenty there from $460 to $700

This is the one im looking at getting

Last edited by G.I.JOE¤MFA¤ (2006-04-20 10:46:05)

I would get the dual 7900gts, as with benches, etc they will beat out a 7900gtx (single).  If you can afford $1000+ to get dual 7900gtx's then go for it, but you have to have a good processor and ram, etc that won't bottleneck (at least not a lot) then I say go for it.  If you are running at 2.0ghz or something with a single core processor, don't waste your time.

slo5oh wrote:

....As for the rest of your system you can build SEROUS speed cheap if you try.
opteron 146 or 148 ($150 to $250), you can overclock these = with a FX series chip, my 146 is running at 2.9Ghz
nforce 4 mobo ($100 to $200)
2 gigs DDR500 ($150 to $200)
seagate SATA drive and you're SMOKIN'!
The cheapest I've seen the 7900GT is around $290 (check fatwallet for best prices)

yeah, your right about the opteron 146 and 148, but to go safe a "pretested" chip is recomended. The only problem about those CPUs, they are hardly available out and sometimes too expensive.

Before you buy a 148 for about 250€ you can take a AMD64 3800+ which one is much more faster in the standard clockings and runs stable a 2.7 Ghz too without big expenditure

Last edited by fon|sl4y3r (2006-04-20 23:16:43)

And this one is telling us what? Was there a 7900GT inside?

so you´ve karmaed me -1, thx
Sidenote: I give you a +1

fon|sl4y3r wrote:

slo5oh wrote:

....As for the rest of your system you can build SEROUS speed cheap if you try.
opteron 146 or 148 ($150 to $250), you can overclock these = with a FX series chip, my 146 is running at 2.9Ghz
nforce 4 mobo ($100 to $200)
2 gigs DDR500 ($150 to $200)
seagate SATA drive and you're SMOKIN'!
The cheapest I've seen the 7900GT is around $290 (check fatwallet for best prices)

yeah, your right about the opteron 146 and 148, but to go safe a "pretested" chip is recomended. The only problem about those CPUs, they are hardly available out and sometimes too expensive.

Before you buy a 148 for about 250€ you can take a AMD64 3800+ which one is much more faster in the standard clockings and runs stable a 2.7 Ghz too without big expenditure

opterons have 1 mb of cache (per processor if you go dual core) instead of all the A64s with half that at 512kb.
The worst opteron OCs better than the best a64.  The worst I've seen on the 146s (when not limted by their motherboard) is between 275 and 280Mhz fsb.  I've read a couple people having issues with getting out the 230 range, but from what I read they were running ddr400 ram and without knowing to enable a ram divider ddr400 will stop you at or before that stage.  You have to keep in mind too that there are many people that don't spend the time to figure out how to correctly OC their rig so they hit limits early.  I'm only running an XP90 (alum) HS with a super cheap 92mm fan and I can go up to 275 keeping the ram at a 1:1 ratio.  If I slow the ram down I can push the CPU to 290Mhz, but the ram (because of the divider) is only running in the high 240s, and the CPU gets toasty... 60* is too hot for me, I know it will do it, but I don't want to go past that.  I SERIOUSLY think that 99.9% of opterons are SUPER overclockers, but the couple people not knowing what they are doing scare the rest into thinking that it's hit and miss.  $ for $ you'll get A LOT more out of a opteron than you will out of an a64.  Monarchcompuer sells the oem 146 for $213, if you apply coupon code 41106-120331 it takes $70 off, that drops the price to $143.  Considering these can easily out perform any of the single core a64 chips (and can match an FX-55 or better), you're getting some serious CPU power for your $.