Author Topic: Lookin to upgrade Video Card (Read 1232 times)

Brenjen · « **Reply #15 on:** May 15, 2006, 04:30:16 PM »

You can score the 7900GT KO for under $300 & the 7900 is blazing fast, of course I'm not knocking the 7800 GT or GS or LE or any of the other models either, they're all good cards.

Eagler · « **Reply #16 on:** May 15, 2006, 06:02:29 PM »

think he's limited to AGP

Brenjen · « **Reply #17 on:** May 15, 2006, 07:11:01 PM »

Ah, then 7900 is out. I would save my money until the DX-10's come out & just upgrade the motherboard at the same time.

eagl · « **Reply #18 on:** May 16, 2006, 04:45:56 AM »

I think there is an AGP 7800. Not sure if there is an AGP 7900. The 7800 is essentially the same as a 7900, just a touch slower.

68DevilM · « **Reply #19 on:** May 20, 2006, 12:35:37 PM »

just ordered this from newegg....note the 512 of ram will bump me up to 1.5gig
and i was useing a 80gig HD for my OP.

eVGA 256-A8-N506-AX Geforce 7800GS CO 256MB GDDR3 AGP 4X/8X Video Card - Retail
Item #: N82E16814130274    $284.00
   1    Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6L200P0 200GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive - OEM
Item #: N82E16822144183    $78.99
   1    CORSAIR ValueSelect 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered System Memory Model VS512MB400 - Retail
Item #: N82E16820145026

68DevilM · « **Reply #20 on:** May 20, 2006, 12:46:54 PM »

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Originally posted by Brenjen
Ah, then 7900 is out. I would save my money until the DX-10's come out & just upgrade the motherboard at the same time.

yeah mother board and cpu.....its a 754 pin

gatt · « **Reply #21 on:** May 21, 2006, 03:53:16 AM »

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Originally posted by Brenjen
Ah, then 7900 is out ....

No, there is the Gainward BLISS 7800 GS+ (512MB) with the 7900 chip (and 24 pipeline) onboard. It is actually the fastest AGP video board in the market.

Kev367th · « **Reply #22 on:** May 21, 2006, 09:47:13 AM »

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Originally posted by 68DevilM
just ordered this from newegg....note the 512 of ram will bump me up to 1.5gig
and i was useing a 80gig HD for my OP.

eVGA 256-A8-N506-AX Geforce 7800GS CO 256MB GDDR3 AGP 4X/8X Video Card - Retail
Item #: N82E16814130274    $284.00
   1    Maxtor DiamondMax 10 6L200P0 200GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA133 Hard Drive - OEM
Item #: N82E16822144183    $78.99
   1    CORSAIR ValueSelect 512MB 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered System Memory Model VS512MB400 - Retail
Item #: N82E16820145026

Tip for the 7800GS -

To prevent game lockups go into your BIOS and set your PCI Latency Timer to 256.

Brenjen · « **Reply #23 on:** May 21, 2006, 10:06:25 AM »

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Originally posted by gatt
No, there is the Gainward BLISS 7800 GS+ (512MB) with the 7900 chip (and 24 pipeline) onboard. It is actually the fastest AGP video board in the market.

Cool, never heard of it. So if it's got the 7900 series chip, why is it still called a 7800 & a lowly GS model at that? Seems they'd make more sales advertising the faster series chip.

68DevilM · « **Reply #24 on:** May 21, 2006, 10:40:09 AM »

update....canceled the newegg order.......found the 7800 gs on ebay like new so they say, im bidding on it for 100 bucks less.

Brenjen · « **Reply #25 on:** May 21, 2006, 11:11:05 AM »

If it's worth the risk for the $100 cool. I trust the egg, RMA is never a hassle & they get products to you fast, I have had orders arrive in less than 24 hours from them.

E-Bay on the other hand has left my butt sore on more than one occassion.

gatt · « **Reply #26 on:** May 21, 2006, 11:11:06 AM »

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Originally posted by Brenjen
Cool, never heard of it. So if it's got the 7900 series chip, why is it still called a 7800 & a lowly GS model at that? Seems they'd make more sales advertising the faster series chip.

Actually, I really dont know why. Perhaps it could hurt the AGP-->PCI-e migration ...
Some specs:

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This is a one production run of 7900 GT's made available for AGP users making these truly the quickest AGP cards ever produced and extremely overclockable with 500MHz core speed easily achievable along with 1400MHz memory speed when overclocking.

This is the only 7900GT card with 24 pixel pipelines available on AGP. Then along with its 512MB of super-fast GDDR3 memory making this the worlds fastest AGP card ever produced.

This is a limited production card

GeForce™ 7900 GT GPU running at 450MHz+ (Great Overclocking Potential)

512MB 1.4ns 1250MHz+ high speed 256bit GDDR3 memory (Great Overclocking Potential)

24-Pipe GPU Architecture

SILENT Cooling solution

Dual 400MHz RAMDACs

Designed For Extreme HD Gaming – Delivering Ultra Realistic Gaming Experiences

Built for Windows Vista – The next generation operating system

Dual link DVI support

Shader Model 3.0 Support

True High Dynamic Range Rendering Support – Based on Open EXR technology

Brenjen · « **Reply #27 on:** May 21, 2006, 11:20:24 AM »

I see where you say, built for windows vista? So this is a DX-10 card? I'm really confused now as to why they are marketing a VC with a big bad GPU as a lower price model & doing it for AGP while making it a DX-10 compliant card. I was certain the first Nvidia DX-10 cards were going to be the 80' series.

I'm glad I got the card I have when I got it, so far I haven't had the mini-freezes & artifacting associated with the 78 & 7900 series. I was having a bit of a problem (only in AH though strangely enough-not) where the card would take quite some time while in the hangar view to "paint" in the frame. I was seeing a white outline of everything for a few seconds before it got on board with the frame & finished rendering it.

Eagler · « **Reply #28 on:** May 21, 2006, 02:58:34 PM »

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Originally posted by 68DevilM
update....canceled the newegg order.......found the 7800 gs on ebay like new so they say, im bidding on it for 100 bucks less.

sounds like buying a used car sight unseen ...
a used video card for any kind of money, would be the last thing I'd get from ebay .. g/l with that

68DevilM · « **Reply #29 on:** May 21, 2006, 07:21:10 PM »

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Originally posted by Brenjen
If it's worth the risk for the $100 cool. I trust the egg, RMA is never a hassle & they get products to you fast, I have had orders arrive in less than 24 hours from them.

E-Bay on the other hand has left my butt sore on more than one occassion.

this is true
hmm i may just hold off on the whole thing and wait a little longer then.....