The basic question is it worth the upgrade cost now, or should I wait for another generation ?
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The basic question is it worth the upgrade cost now, or should I wait for another generation ?
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Personally I would keep it unless you find a really good bargain, and perhaps if you are a performance whore. Either way there's still a nice increase, but you might be a bit disappointed when you fire the machine back up and find that the money you spent buying a new one and the bother of getting rid of the 6800GT may not have been justified.
theres not THAT much of a difference, if the 6800gt is running all yourstuff well, then my advice is maybe add some more ram if youve only got 1gb or so
So general thought it leave it till next major change of GFX cards, as on paper the specs of the two are very close.
well i dunno about on paper but from past experience, theres a marginal difference between them. try and get a demo first to compare.
You might as well wait for the X1800XT to be lauched. Then prices should fall across the board.
thats an ATI card though, right ?Quote:
Originally Posted by crepness
Yup, its the next gen card (like the x800 was to the 9800). Unless you can get a really good price for your 6800gt, then there is very little point. Whats the specs of your PC otherwise?
Dave
um isnt the x1800 basically the same step the 7800 took so its not a next gen card!
No point moving from a 6800gt to a x1800 when a 7800 would be the same move, wait for the 8000 series nvidia cards or ATi's next step after the 1800
its the next gen for ATi if i've read the reviews correctly, I haven't looked much at the 7800 cause they don't make an agp version atm :(
Dave
x1800 finally brings shader 3 to the table that the 6800's already have. Granted ATi are still doing AGP. I will be sticking to the 6800gt for another year or two then look at upgrading. For now this 6800gt takes everything I throw at it.
System will be a s754 PCI-e setup (NF4 4x chipset), although the actual mobo make is not yet decided, its an A64 3000 clawhammer CPU
Your 3000+ won't be able to keep up with the 6800GT anyway, money will be better spent on a 939 motherboard (or even wait for the M2)Quote:
Originally Posted by Ricco
sorry all....what is an M2?
Socket M2 is the next socket that AMD will useQuote:
Originally Posted by Mullet
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05...t_m2_desktops/
Didn't nVidia just say that it isn't planning to reduce its prices anytime soon, reguardless of ATi cards slowly spreading?