I've got D-Vine case which is a regular ATX case and is about 4 years old. Hopefully I can find a room for the card as my 9300 seem a bit week on accelerating the Blu-ray movies.

BTW, I called Dell to bitch about the 9/15 shipping date and the friendly CSR assured me the shipping days hows as July 15 on their end, not September 15. He said the card ships directly from manufacturer and offered to send them a request for expedited shipping. From my past experience with Dell their "expedite requests" never materialize, but July 15 sounds reasonable enough, so I will just wait.

DarthWoo said:sleepybubba said:Just ordered one. Of course the delivery date is 9/15...Will be calling and bitching about it shortly. Hopefully it will fit inside my HTPC case. Anybody with experience of this card usage in HTPC?

I'm not very familiar with HTPC cases, but I do know that I have a rather large Antec case, and even with as much space as I have, I'm going to have to remove a drive cage just to fit this thing in. My old 9600GT is about 9" long, which gave it about one inch of clearance from the back of one of my hard drives. This one is 10.5", so that would put it right in the drive cage.

Off topic question, but since I'm going to have to put both of my SATA hard drives in the same three slot drive cage, is it a good idea to separate them with a USB/card reader bay? I wonder if having two hard drives right up against each other is going to cause heat damage to them. I can't really point any case fans directly at the drive cages in this case, although there is one intake fan pointing horizontally at the bottom of the front bezel, several inches below the drives.

SpiXe said:Awesome, jumped on it. Also got it for $156.05 after CA Tax and before rebate.Thanx OP.

Should be a huge upgrade to my 7600, especially superclocked. Super = Over? I imagine I'll just google something on "how to overlock the gtx 260", but just wanna make sure superclock and overclock means the same thing.

yes, superclocked is the factory sales nomenclature for overclocking.

i moved up from a 7600gt to the evga gtx260 core 216 superclocked card, and i overclocked it on top of what the factory superclocking was.

evga has a software utility called precision, that allows you to do the overclocking.

i got my evga superclocked card for $150 after rebate from frys, about 6 weeks ago(rebate took a month), but if this deal had been available at the time, i would have gotten the Dell card over the superclocked version, because it's so much cheaper, and it can be overclocked.

i don't know if evga hand-picks the cards that they use for superclocking, but since i would have been saving $36 with this Dell deal, it would have been a no-brainer, even if if the overclocking was very slightly limited.

What is better two 250 gts or one 260 core 216? I have been reading that SLI is jittery.

amptor said:What is better two 250 gts or one 260 core 216? I have been reading that SLI is jittery.

250 GTS is basically rebadged GTX+9800 with 1GB of memory. It's still the old 9xxx chip. Not the new 2xx chip. Each GTS 250 has 128 stream processors compare to 260's 216 processors.

amptor said:Foxbat121 said:amptor said:What is better two 250 gts or one 260 core 216? I have been reading that SLI is jittery.

250 GTS is basically rebadged GTX+9800 with 1GB of memory. It's still the old 9xxx chip. Not the new 2xx chip. Each GTS 250 has 128 stream processors compare to 260's 216 processors.

Yeah I know I've heard that before, but there are 250 gts models with 512 megs too. The ones that go on fatwallet for $70 after rebate are.

But if you SLI the 250's, they outperform a single 260.. a guy was telling me last night that not all games support SLI though and I have been reading that there are stutters in games if you do SLI but I'm not sure about that.

Do more research.

Depending on the games you want to play, and the resolutions you want to play it at SLI can be good. Usually buying one card that is more powerful is a better decision though. SLI only really starts to see a good advantage when you are playing at very high resolutions (1600x1200+). So if you are not playing at that high of resolution SLi is almost a waste depending on what game you are playing.

Don't go down a generation. Just pick up this card and you will be happy, thats my advice anyway.

woah! where do you live! like right next to the warehouse?!

10% off coupon expires today!

Yeah I'm hoping mine ships, they bumped it from 9/9 to 9/15 so I'm not sure. I'm going to check on it tomorrow and see if there is any update, month isn't over yet after all.

Well thanx for the advice about the cards and I was thinking that 260 core 216 single may be the better route to go. Right now I own a 9800 gtx+ and a 250 gts i'm going to try in sli and going to try out that 260 core 216 and see what I like better but it seems like a single 260 will probably win out overall.

Could not resist.

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