2008 XS Cheapazchips 3D challenge

Looks like the UK can get a sapphire HD3470 happily. Looks to be a generic PCB though. IS there any not on the standard layout, or different ram chips. If there isn't, it will be a very level playing field, unlike the 8400gs was!

- Paul

Edit - looking at prices, wouldn't the hd 3650 make more sense??? like a tiny bit more, but a chunk more power. just me thinking that??

all i can seem to even FIND is sapphire 3470. nobody i can see even makes them besides sapphire. at least in the usa..

Dunno coz then again, its a cheapazchip 3d challenge...

then the price would go up a notch more and after that, there is a new card that only cost a notch more with more pwr and so on until we are at gx2s or x2s or sth like that...

3450/3470s might be the card to go with imo...

only one hd3470 from sapphire available in germany for 44€

lots of 3450 for around 30€

Just dropping in some canadian prices for consideration.. all from ncix.com

HD3450: $49-$135
HD3470: $76
HD3650: $80-$176

IMO HD3470 is too overpriced. It was meant to be sub-50 $, and 80 is almost 2 times more. Also, it's hardly available, I know of one shop that has them in Poland. That leaves us with HD3450

I guess most of us are leaning more towards the hd3450. The price is more then great. For 30 euro you can even buy 2 cards from different brands to play with. Maybe we should make a poll.

I like sticking to the cheap cards because you can buy two lol ;)

cheap card ftw

aight plenty of 3450s around here.. $30ish but we will have to live with gddr2. since the gddr3 3450s are same price as the 3470 :p:

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Originally Posted by JamesBong420

aight plenty of 3450s around here.. $30ish but we will have to live with gddr2. since the gddr3 3450s are same price as the 3470 :p:

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Are there GDDR3 3450s? Couldn't find any that weren't the FX 3450 Quadro :p:

As other also state, i think we should stick to the 3450s and hold us to the cheapaz 3d challenge...

hmz.. 64bit ddr2.. i have the feeling that these cards are terribly bottlenecked by their ram (especially when overclocked), which automatically means that your final score will be pretty much determained by how you can get the ram (which isn't going to be that high because it's ddr2)

BTW what are you guys gonna use as benchmark? can't be bothered with reading the whole damn thread :D

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Originally Posted by [XC] gomeler

Are there GDDR3 3450s? Couldn't find any that weren't the FX 3450 Quadro :p:

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i could have sworn i saw like 5 gddr3 3450s but they were $70.. and now that i go search again. i cant find a single one. :p: so i guess not....

i take it we will have to deal with gddr2 until the next challenge.. :down: :slap:

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Originally Posted by JamesBong420

i take it we will have to deal with gddr2 until the next challenge.. :down: :slap:

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Not certain if I want to fight with another GDDR2 card. I still have my 8400GS here, a painful reminder of what garbage GDDR2 is :D

I've seen 2400XT's with ddr3 for 30-40euros.. seem allright to me.

the 2400xt's its going to be the same thing as the 3470s.. everyone is going to have the exact same card. the sapphire... :cool:

yo guys. Just a qucik heads up. you seen how these 3450's are performin g on 03 for example! the 8400gs i had on stock was wiping the floor with it. Guess i personally wana see some numbers as good as, or better than the 8400gs did. Not really moving the price point in the uk for the 3450, but the performance is less :S

Anyway, my two cents

- Paul

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Originally Posted by SpikeP

yo guys. Just a qucik heads up. you seen how these 3450's are performin g on 03 for example! the 8400gs i had on stock was wiping the floor with it. Guess i personally wana see some numbers as good as, or better than the 8400gs did. Not really moving the price point in the uk for the 3450, but the performance is less :S

Anyway, my two cents

- Paul

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Does it matter? I don't think many of us will game on it after the competition. Most important thing is that everyone has the same card to race each other.

Exactly ownage, thats the hole idea with this competition...

although it would be nice to break out of the 64-bit memory bus...

what about 8500gt

available for ~ 40€ and at least 128bit memory bus :D

wow those cards are very powerful and cheap here ~US$50

we would be hitting past 40K '01 with these EEK :)

i could go with that

Strangely the 8500GT is nearer the £40 mark in the UK - eBay has them at nearer £33 so if we're not picky about brands then I see no reason not to use these cards :)

What about something like the 7600GS in either GDDR2 or GDDR3? They're older so should be cheap and easy to get ahold of - I'm sure shops will want to move old stock so should be easy to get in bulk even!

im down for the 8500($50 usd).. alot of different layouts.:up: for some reason the people around here are charging $100 usd for a 7600. :down:

think we should start a poll¿? :)