9800GTX or 8800GT?

which would you recommend for a gaming rig

if you are going to spend 199 dollars then you should be getting a HD4850 instead of 9800GTX.yoyo462001

Wrong. The 9800GTX beats the HD4850 in some games and vice versa.

4850 is faster than a normal 9800GTX, the margin is really small I would say less than 5%

Wrong. The 9800GTX beats the HD4850 in some games and vice versa.

nVidiaGaMer

Wrong. The HD4850 beats an overclocked 9800GTX.

[QUOTE="yoyo462001"]if you are going to spend 199 dollars then you should be getting a HD4850 instead of 9800GTX.nVidiaGaMer

Wrong. The 9800GTX beats the HD4850 in some games and vice versa.

All the reviews done on 4850 were done on a stock card, with the fan speed increase it becomes another cool card, so a 4850 OC'd compares really good to a 9800+ probably beating it by a hair and a 4870 heavily overclocked will come pretty close to a 280GTX which is crazy at only 299$, go amd.