Mission: Upgrade

Originally Posted by Gazz

A nice deal indeed. Not a great deal though and that is what you should be looking for.

Do you mean the stuff enclosed in the package (e.g. software), the price or simply a better card?

• EVGA GF 9600, overclockedand comes with Crysis. Komplett.nl
  

• Gainward Geforce 8800GT @ Komplett.nl reviewed here: Fudzilla
  

Prices going up and up, anyways, crysis isn't that good of a game ,
but 188 is pretty expensive still.

Originally Posted by Magus

Prices going up and up, anyways, crysis isn't that good of a game ,
but 188 is pretty expensive still.

I know that Crysis isn't state-of-the-art, I just mentioned that it is included.
What brands / prices should I aim at?

This one sounds nice
Komplett.nl - Point of View GeForce 8800GT 512MB,DDR3 PCI-Express, 2XDVI/Tv-Out, HDCP/HDMI
It's from a dutch company, so RMA shouldn't take that long

Originally Posted by Magus

This one sounds nice
Komplett.nl - Point of View GeForce 8800GT 512MB,DDR3 PCI-Express, 2XDVI/Tv-Out, HDCP/HDMI
It's from a dutch company, so RMA shouldn't take that long

Looks nice, the bundled software changes from time to time so a little surprise is included
At least, if you are lucky and get a limited edition.

So, what is wrong with Crysis? I thought it was kinda fun. A little short for my taste, but fun anyway.

Originally Posted by BuffaloChips

So, what is wrong with Crysis? I thought it was kinda fun. A little short for my taste, but fun anyway.

From that point of view nothings wrong with it. It was as you said kinda fun. However, they promised us a revolution amongst games and we didn't get within a cubic universe of that promise. A generic fps that ran poorly on even the highest configurations and absolutely not something that's worth getting Vista or DX 10 for.

Originally Posted by Gazz

A generic fps that ran poorly on even the highest configurations and absolutely not something that's worth getting Vista or DX 10 for.

Crysis has run excellant on my PC since it came out. I enjoyed Crysis alot. I didn't like the underwater levels that much, but I can find parts of any game that I don't like.

What would be a better choice, if we don't look so much to the extras but focus on the card itself?
The 8800GT of POV that Magus pointed to, or that overclocked 9600GT from EVGA? I know that a 8800GT is faster than a standard 9600, but in this case I can't determine wich one is the better card.