6800GT to 7800GT

[Ricco]

The basic question is it worth the upgrade cost now, or should I wait for another generation ?

Thanks

[unreal]

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.

[fullfat]

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

[Ricco]

So general thought it leave it till next major change of GFX cards, as on paper the specs of the two are very close.

[fullfat]

well i dunno about on paper but from past experience, theres a marginal difference between them. try and get a demo first to compare.

[crepness]

You might as well wait for the X1800XT to be lauched. Then prices should fall across the board.

[Ricco]

You might as well wait for the X1800XT to be lauched. Then prices should fall across the board.

thats an ATI card though, right ?

[dave87]

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

[Grey M@a]

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

[dave87]

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

[Grey M@a]

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.

[Ricco]

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

[arthurleung]

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)

[Mullet]

sorry all....what is an M2?

[arthurleung]

sorry all....what is an M2?

Socket M2 is the next socket that AMD will use
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05...t_m2_desktops/

[unreal]

Didn't nVidia just say that it isn't planning to reduce its prices anytime soon, reguardless of ATi cards slowly spreading?