Video Card Advice

[Smudger]

Right, another query.

In my haste I bid on a card on eBay which is a normal 9800, thinking it was a 9800 pro. I won the card, and it has now arrived. Am I better off keeping this one and trying to overclock it, or going back to the 9700Pro when that comes back from repair?

[sawyen]

yeouch.. hmn.. tough question, you could see which ones gives u better performance.. then keep the other card for a collection or for future diagnostic purposes.

Or you could just sell the extra card to another blind ebay soul..

[wizzzzzuk]

Look at this
http://graphics.tomshardware.com/gra...705/index.html
this should give you a fair idea of what is appropriate to you.

[Thorsson]

Good point. IMO that shows that the 6600GT is the absolute minimum for running modern games. I'm unsure how you could be satisfied with Far Cry on a 9700 Pro. At any sort of reasonable resolution/video quality it would c_r_a_w_l...

[Smudger]

I've got no problems with how Far Cry runs now, it's at high settings on most stuff, and it's pretty smooth.

The 9800 does keep falling over in Windows though. A driver rollback required, I think...

[Smudger]

Also, if you think about it, When Far Cry came out, 18months - 2 years ago, the 9x00 cards were fairly high performance...

[D-BEAR]

Got a bfg 6800nu second hand for £85 unlocks to 16/6 what a buy....just keep a look out.

[Oakleyb]

I've read recently that the 6800 GS does not unlock. 12 pipes is all you get (but with a monster overclock on the vanilla 6800). Even so, it's still faster than an unlocked vanilla 6800 with 16 pipes (it's a different core, I believe)