9600GT OR 3850? ? ?

[dirtyp]

SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 3850 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire VS
EVGA GeForce 9600 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready

The 9600 is ten bucks more at checkout, the same shipped.
I dont have any more money and was hoping this would work for the next year and a half?
Or should i wait a bit longer for the official blackfriday sales?

My MB has a lock on 4x, will that effect the cards?

Manufacturer: ATi
Series: Radeon HD 3k
GPU: RV670
Release Date: 2007-11-15
Interface: PCI-E 2.0 x16
Core Clock: 668 MHz
Shader Clock: 668 MHz
Memory Clock: 828 MHz (1656 DDR)
Memory Bandwidth: 52.992 GB/sec
FLOPS: 427.52 GFLOPS
Pixel Fill Rate: 10688 MPixels/sec
Texture Fill Rate: 10688 MTexels/sec

Manufacturer: nVidia
Series: GeForce 9
GPU: G94
Release Date: 2008-02-21
Interface: PCI-E 2.0 x16
Core Clock: 650 MHz
Shader Clock: 1625 MHz
Memory Clock: 900 MHz (1800 DDR)
Memory Bandwidth: 57.6 GB/sec
FLOPS: 208 GFLOPS
Pixel Fill Rate: 10400 MPixels/sec
Texture Fill Rate: 20800 MTexels/sec

 

[Special7]

Reviews show the 9600GT > 3850.

 

[BossBorot]

9600 unless you want to use hdmi to pass through audio or use it in an HTPC

 

[dirtyp]

You dont think Ill find anything better with the black friday deals?

I almost bought the 3870 for $95 a few days ago. So patience is working so far.
What about dx 10.1 and sm4.1 not big difference from 10 and 4?

 

[moocow]

Im pretty sure you cant use the nvidia g92 cards and up on that board. I had the intel version and you could only use ATI cards up to the 3870 and that was it.

 

[Cuiiey]

Go with the 9600 cause its newer but otherwise ATI FTW!!!