As I said in Led's thread, I am looking to get a new vid card (mainly cos the one I have now is only a 4800Ti SE, and doesnt really run BF2 all that well), and it seems that the card of choice here (from the searching/reviewing I've done of threads) is the GeForce 6800...
The question is though... do I go for the 6800 Ultra, or a 6800 GT? and which is the better manufacturer (eVGA, BFG, Asus, etc)???
Thoughts and comments muchly appreciated!!
The main reasons I ask is because current pricing for the boards appears to be as follows (all Leadtek boards):
128Mb 6800GT - A$499 (AGP) [US$374.25]
128Mb 6800 Ultra - A$820 (AGP) [US$615.00]
(interestingly, the only 6800 series boards I can find that are 256Mb are all PCIe, like the 7800GTX)..
256Mb 6800GT - A$585 [US$438.75]
256Mb 6800 Ultra - A$799 [US$599.25]
256Mb 7800GTX - A$915 [US$686.25]
Is there a huge performance difference between AGP and PCIe (or is AGP being phased out, as it seems all the newer boards with 256Mb are PCIe as opposed to AGP)??
And, as mentioned above, would there be compatability issues between the mobo and the card if I went PCIe??
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Abbikat had this to say about pies:
It's all in the topic folksAs I said in Led's thread, I am looking to get a new vid card (mainly cos the one I have now is only a 4800Ti SE, and doesnt really run BF2 all that well), and it seems that the card of choice here (from the searching/reviewing I've done of threads) is the GeForce 6800...
The question is though... do I go for the 6800 Ultra, or a 6800 GT? and which is the better manufacturer (eVGA, BFG, Asus, etc)???
Thoughts and comments muchly appreciated!!
wow, I'm glad you brought this up since I'm going through the same problem right now. I'm gonna buy the 6800GT PCIe. Go with PCIe because mobo's are leaving the AGP realm
And unless you're finding Socket472 boards with PCIX (I haven't seen any personally) you're just as screwed with Intel as you are AMD. The LGA775 socket means new chip, and most of the LGA775 boards are DDR2 instead of DDR.
If I go for a PCI(e/x/wtfbbq) vid card (which is most likely since it seems every place I scan on the web says AGP is on the way out like you guys said, what kind of new mobo should I be looking for also (ie: manufacturer, etc) as recommendations?
I can always go back to the place that built the puter for me (cos they have the old spec-sheet and know what they put into it) and get them to pick a mobo that will be compatible to the new vid card as well as the old RAM and processor chip
.. but I'd like some suggestions from folks so I can hunt pricing and figure out just how much more than just a vid card this is all gunna cost.
Thanks.
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How.... Noxhil2.... uughhhhhh:
PCI-e and PCI-X aren't the same.
Yeah... PCIX is the previous version where they didn't gay up the physical interface. PCIe is work done on top of that, which has increased speed, but also brought about a gay physical interface that was unneeded.
anyone have any thoughts on the 9600/9700 series Ati cards??
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Abbikat wrote this stupid crap:
just for my own sake, and cos it seems I can get an ATi card for 1/2 the price of the nVidia ones...anyone have any thoughts on the 9600/9700 series Ati cards??
I used to have a 9600.
Not the best card in the world, not the worst.
Edit: And it ran BF2 fine with the settings tweaked (I was running it around 1280x1024 with AA) but I also had 1.5gb of ram. Demos fucked around with this message on 07-17-2005 at 10:59 PM.
