All users who hold a 9800 series, stand up and be proud!
To this day we can run every game fine on high resolution, and better than console graphics quality!
These little cards, which are now many years old...are here to give hope to the length of PC gaming, and proof that you don't need to upgrade every year like some people think.
Nvidia did a great job with the 9800 series, and for this...we shall show our respects!
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9800 Series, The Little Cards That Could
ahhh yes, the 9800. until like a couple months ago, that card could play like, anything on at least medium.
I still use sli 9800gt sc cards from evga.
I play most games on high at 1920x1200. Cards are unreal.
I almost cried a little. I still have my 9800 GT. First monitor is a 27" HDTV running at 1360x768 and the second monitor is a 20" LCD monitor running at 1600x900.
The reason my HDTV is running at a small resolution is because these damn TV's only have VGA connections. Well, I think that's the problem.
Based on the same tech but not the same tech. There's a die shrink and added full H264 acceleration between the two. The 9800 series also have a much lower TDP and work with higher resolutions more efficiently." Hell, the 8800 series is similar architecture, and I'm still rocking the 8800GT just fine. I won't be feeling the pressure to upgrade until the next generation of engines. Rage and Unreal Engine 4. Also, the trick is to overclock. "
My 9800 GT ran great for the first year and a half. It crapped out on me early this year and the replacement only lasted a month or two. I think that was mostly XFX's fault though. Their 9800s run hot and have tiny fans compared to other manufacturers. Now I've got a GT 240 that they sent me instead.
XFX specifications: 9800 GT / GT 240
Nvidia specifications: 9800 GT / GT 240
@Valkyr said:
" @KaosAngel: The "new" 9800 GT cards you could find now on sale are stocked cards, production stopped a long time ago so they gave him a new card with similar raw power I assume "Also, this.
My 8800GT's still rocken hard at 1080p on Medium-high on most games (I can't complain at medium at this resolution with a 3 year old card and CPU). Graphics tech has definitely slowed this generation, since most PC games are console ports. Tis okay with me though since console games still look good, and the PC only makes em look better.
" @KaosAngel: Overall, they are actually very similar, but the GT 240 has a slight edge on the 9800 GT. For example, my 9800 had 512MB memory, while the 240 has 1GB. The 240 also has a larger fan allowing it to run much cooler and it draws less power. So, in the end, I actually got a slight upgrade.Hate to be the bearer of bad tidings but the GT 240 is often slower than the 9600 GT, let alone the 9800 GT. More RAM doesn't equal more performance.
XFX specifications: 9800 GT / GT 240
Nvidia specifications: 9800 GT / GT 240
@Valkyr said:" @KaosAngel: The "new" 9800 GT cards you could find now on sale are stocked cards, production stopped a long time ago so they gave him a new card with similar raw power I assume "Also, this. "
playing Civ 5 and F1 2010 maxed out 1680x1050 but i too think the 8xxx series were much better when they first came out.
I just found my 9600gt laying out in the closet. It served me well when I was running at 1280x1024 native. Now my GTX 260 is carrying the torch. I'm thinking about just popping the 9600 in and use it as a physx card, and I just want to see what my case looks like with 2 GPUs in it.
I bet it looks awesome.
I also have an entirely different "9800" sitting in one of my many boxes of PC parts which I consider to be the superior one :P
" @SeriouslyNow: Actually due to the shrink in ram and bus size the 9800GTX wasn't as good at high resolutions over the 8800GTX if memory serves, the extra wiggle room on the 8800gtx made it a little better at 1920x1200(at least in my experience). I also have an entirely different "9800" sitting in one of my many boxes of PC parts which I consider to be the superior one :P "Depends, they jumped the GTX+ and then to GTS250 pretty quickly and both of those cards trump 8800GTX in almost every benchmark. The 768MB B/W of the 8800GTX was pretty nifty for sure but then a lot of game devs used 'profiling' to specifically tune performance for the 8800GTX and once those profiles are overridden the 8800GTX doesn't actually perform any better than the 9800GTX+.
I had an ATI 9800XT too. Hated it, or rather despised its drivers.
Damn straight. Still rocking the 9800GTX listening to my fans kick into overdrive when I try to max out anything these days lol. Might finally make the jump to a whole new system next year, but we'll have to wait and see.
itd be the perfcet card if only the series was qualified for maya. really should have checked that out before i built this rig. big fail for crashing when i try to display textures in hardware mode.
I would be cheering my 9800 GT on, but I'm sure everyone already know my dilemma.
http://www.giantbomb.com/forums/general-discussion/30/my-poor-baby-blew-out-graphic-card/455091/?
It's sad and I wanted to cry. The many games that it would let me play without any problems on high settings. Crysis, Just Cause 2, Red Faction Guerilla, Gears of War, etc. Excuse me everyone, I have something in my eye.
Okay i'll bite, I used to use a 9800GTX, damn card was really big though, replaced the heatsink. Also I used to use a 9800GX2.
9800 series is not a little card. 9800 series is 9,000 times stronger and faster than your niece's 5450.
8800 series is powerful too. 8800 GTS 512mb kick the fuck out of 4650 and 8800 GTS 512mb is about 7% faster than 8800 GT
who already got 8800 Ultra then so called upgrade to 5450 is a fucking idiot.
console vs pc? pc gaming is only for benchmark and hardware nerds. pure gaming cant beat console with its varieties of genre and titles.
pc gaming is pretty dead but pc performance hardware is not dead.... lot sof nerds includes myself. i like to fuck around with it and use crysis and other games for benching.
7900 GTX kick you 4650 goodbye.
8800 ultra kick you 5450 goodbye.
X1950XTX kick you 9500 GT goodbye.
8600 GTS kick you 4550 goodbye.
X850 XT kick you 4650 goodbye.
4670 kick you 5450 goodbye.
@JJOR64
said:thats baddish. 8600 GT is slow but 8600 GTS is fast. 8600 GT and 8600 GTS is big gap apart. if you have any any dual core or mroe core cpu combine with 4gb ram with win xp then your good to go. or 8600 GTS with any dual core, 8gb ram and win7 64bit." I have a 8600 GT. That's good right? "
fx-74 - 8gb ram - two 8600 GTS in sli kill core 2 E8600 - 2gb ram - 4890
I thought I was the only one still jammin' with a 9800 GT. Except for Civ 5, I it plays anything on at least medium settings at my monitor's native resolution of 1680 x 1050. I'm tempted to get me a 400 series card but so far this fucker refuses to give. Best card I've ever had to be honest. Shit I bet there will be plenty of games within the next year that it could run just fine because it sits right at the middle between the extreme low and high for what cards games have to be optimized for. Although the fact that a game came out and it chugged a bit tells me that it isn't getting any younger. Another calender year before I give 'er the boot.
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