[Cew27]

rightcan anyone find me this card (evga 8800 ultra) for about 420 in the uk scan is out and overclockers dont sel the stock version only the ko and i dont know the difference between the two

[alex]

Here

[Cew27]

forget that i decided to get the ko,
here is my basket on ocuk just want to make sure what i am getting is top spec and good
Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-Bit Edition DVD - OEM - 1Pk (is this good, any driver issues?)
OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-8500C5 1066MHz SLI-Ready Edition Dual Channel DDR2 (ok for 64 but home premium?)
Akasa System Exhaust Blower (does it work well, will it help cool the ko ultra?)
the other products are the evga ultra 8800 ko, arctic cooling freezer 7 and arctic silver thermal compund, but i know all these are the best anyway
also will 64 bit run all 32 bit programs ??? e.g. all the c&c games

[Dave Hybrid]

http://www.evga.com/products/prodlist.asp

That link shows all the different cards and specs.

The KO is faster than the stock as it is OC'd a little.

[Cew27]

Originally Posted by alex Here

cheers, decided to get the ko from ocuk then i will have got all my componets from scan and ocuk narrowing down the warranties

[Dave Hybrid]

I run 64bit with no issues whatsoever.

[Cew27]

goood how much ram will home prem utilise i have read up to 8 gig

[Cew27]

oh and i will also order a
Sony NEC Optiarc DDU1615S 16x SATA DVD-ROM (Black) - OEM
until my asus writer drives appear will this be ok if i wanted to read from one drive and copy to another 2 or will the read speed slow down my other two drives writing speed

ASUS 2014L1T 20x DVD±R, 8x DVD±DL, DVD+RW x8/-RW x6, x14 DVD-RAM, SATA, Lightscribe, Black OEM

[alex]

Originally Posted by Cew27 goood how much ram will home prem utilise i have read up to 8 gig

64 bit vista can recognise upto 128gb of ram, but this only for multi-cpu configurations, max of 16gb per processor. This is also Vista Ultimate 64, not premium.

32bit can theoretically recognise 4gb (due to bandwidth) but some of this is automatically addressed to the graphics card's, i/o etc. Hence you'll only ever see around 3.1gb-3.4gb dependent on build.

Home-use motherboards tend to only be able to map 8gb anyway, regardless of o.s.

[alex]

Actually, you know what?

I've just re-read that and i'm confusing myself now.

Dammit. Let's all go Linux.

[Carbon]

The 8800 Ultra will be the first card made obsolete by the 9 series, specifically the 9800GX2. I wouldn't pay the money for an Ultra when you could SLI two 8800GTs or just wait for the GX2 (which will have two onboard GPUs using probably the G92 process used for the newer 8800s). Its expected retail is only about $450 (229 pounds) so you could SLI those for the same price as one of the Ultras (usually MSRP is broken for high-demand cards but I don't expect the 9800GX2 to have the sort of "must-buy-it" market the GT did where prices were inflated about 10% above).

[Cew27]

to late now its ordered