Quote Originally Posted by 'lans83',index.php?page=Thread&postID=77347#post77 347
if i go with the 8800 gt cards instead of the 9800s which of these two cards would be best to get? MSI vs Palit? Both have the same specs, same price, but the Palit is 10MHz slower on the core clock, but has 1gb on the memory size vs the MSI's 512MB. normally, you'd figure go with the 1gig over the 512MB, but is this really worth it? and is Palit a reliable enough brand to pick over MSI on this 1 card? plus, if i invest in 2 cards, would i be able to run them both as independant of each other with my main on one card and my slaves on the second card and run a single or two monitors off both cards with the following specs? yes i changed some parts out again. hopefully for the last time, but main concern now is the card investment. another thing, should i opt for the 10k raptors or would it be good enough to get 2x 7200 rpm drives and install WoW to seperate folders on each? i'm not worried about having to update it multiple times after each patch. would it benifit me to get 3x 80gigs for slaves and 1x 500gig, both 7200s, for main/storage/OS. for later use if i decide to go hardware boxing, i'll use the 80gigs for those rigs. or would there be a difference in performance vs the 2x 7200 500gigs? here are the links for them:
Ive never heard of the Palit brand myself Id like to hear someones opinion on it. I am also about to make a PC purchase and you nailed my HD question. I am having serious issues affording ~400 in 2 10k HD's and thinking of 2x 7200's myself. If anyone could explain the benefits Id appreciate it.

(First post, yea for me)

-Andrew