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What's the best graphics card I can stick in my 9880?

post #1 of 5
5/4/08 at 6:04am
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I currently have an nVidia 7900GT 512MB card in my 9880. I was contemplating upgrading it to a 7950GT. But I was wondering if any of the 88XX series of cards is compatible with the 9880 casing/motherboard? If not, is it worth upgrading to the 7950 if I wanna play games like COD4, Oblivion and Bioshock? How much of an improvement is the 7950 over the 7900, and how well can I expect those games to run my machine?

Windows XP
P4 3.6Ghz
nVidia 7900GT 512MB
2GB DDR ram
160GB HDD

And by the way, should I upgrade my ram to 4GB instead of 2?

And is it possible to have Sager overclock my CPU if I wanted them to?
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post #2 of 5
5/5/08 at 12:31am
the 7950gtx is the best card that you can put into the 9880. you must have motherboard version 6.1 or 6.2, though (which i think you do have but you need to check).

it is not worth the upgrade. just overclock your 7900gt a little.

the 8 series cards are not available for the module socket that the 9880 uses.

not worth upgrading to 4gb of ram, do 3 instead as the chipset cannot read all 4 gigs, regardless.

sager does not do any overclock. besides, you cannot overclock the cpu as the bios does not allow it. the p4 runs very hot as it is so it's not even worth tampering with it.
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post #3 of 5
5/10/08 at 7:28am
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Originally Posted by Argh View Post

it is not worth the upgrade.
Hmm, why not?
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post #4 of 5
5/11/08 at 11:25pm
Caue the 7950 is just an OCed 7900 >.>
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post #5 of 5
5/21/08 at 7:10pm
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Originally Posted by isamu View Post
Hmm, why not?
going from 7900 to 7950 is not worth the cost of $300-$500 dollars. the 7950 is an overclocked 7900, basically.
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