Upgrading, unless it's to something much newer, won't have much of a performance gain. The problem isn't that my 8800 is getting slow--it's not--it's just rapidly becoming technologically insufficient.
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So what would I upgrade to, that is "budget" priced, that I won't suffer a performance hit with?
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You should wait till the card doesn't do the job anymore and then go for something like an ATI 48xx or 58xx or a Nvidia GTX265 or 275. I don't know of any "budget" cards better than the one you have.
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I would get rid of your 8800GTX even though it was once a great card.
Get something else.
Even if you got a 2nd 8800GTX, you miss out in newer OpenGL version, CUDA and Physx also. If you stick to Nvidia cards that is.
Ok, but it certainly seems that I can't both give it up and get a performance increase within my idea of what I can afford to pay.
And why would I replace it if I'm not getting a performance increase?
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