Author Topic: Opinions on video card (Read 950 times)

Morpheus · « **on:** July 12, 2006, 08:41:19 PM »

Title says it all.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102678

38ruk · « **Reply #1 on:** July 12, 2006, 09:26:08 PM »

Look at this article i found comparing the 1600 to other agp cards . What are you using now , if ya dont mind me askin ? 38

http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/article/337/9

Morpheus · « **Reply #2 on:** July 12, 2006, 10:04:35 PM »

nothing now. My PC got zapped in a storm, right past the surge protector. I have another box I use for internet crap, but its no gamming box by any stretch. Naturally the one that gets hit, is the one that costs the most jing.

That article really seems partial to the 6600. I had a 6800 ultra, which I liked, but got zapped too. But with playing lockon alot now, which seems to like ATI cards, I was thinking about going with one for a change.

Krusty · « **Reply #3 on:** July 12, 2006, 10:22:02 PM »

Going from another thread in this forum, the consensus was that maybe the 1600 Pro was outperformed by the x850. It has less ram, but it is a faster ram. I think it was 256-bit ram, too. Can't recall, but the post isn't too far down this forum.

38ruk · « **Reply #4 on:** July 12, 2006, 11:13:55 PM »

The X850's are a nice card, actually anything in the X8xx series (X800PRO ,X800XL, X800XT , X800GTO and GTO2 ) will still do a good job , espessially when playing games in D3D ( direct3d). In openGL it seems Nvidia has a clear performance advantage . I just did some quick checks on X8xx series cards at two vendors ( tiger direct, Newegg) and it seems that the AGP versions of those cards are starting to dry up ( atleast on those sites) .

If i was buying AGP in that price range i would look for:

Nvidia) 6800 GS ,GT, Ultra,
Ati) all listed above and including X850pro's and XT's .

I did read somewhere that Nvidia was going to produce the 7600GS in AGP , if so that would be a great card depending on the price. The lowest ive seen 7800GS's for are around 250 with a mail in , but if your going to be sticking with AGP for awhile , it's prolly the last higher end card AGP will see. 38

Morpheus · « **Reply #5 on:** July 13, 2006, 01:30:52 PM »

Im probably going to go with the Ati x850 pro or tx. Depends I guess on what mood i'm in when i get home tonight and order it. Tiger direct looks good, neweggs seems higher priced lately. This is it for this machine though. I'd like to keep it a semi gaming machine one that I use in conjunction with a newer one I plan on building in the near future. I'd rather not be buying parts for this thing, when I could be building a new box.

This will be the Last 250+ dollars I'll be putting into this one though.

Hajo · « **Reply #6 on:** July 13, 2006, 07:24:40 PM »

Morph X850XT has 16 pipelines....that's the one.

68DevilM · « **Reply #7 on:** July 20, 2006, 05:08:52 PM »

definatley the x850 morph....

handy169 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 20, 2006, 08:52:41 PM »

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2006/02/02/bfgtech_7800_gs_agp/1.html

DROOLS.. i was at compusa and saw this in the display case.. faster then the 6800 line!

tapakeg · « **Reply #9 on:** July 21, 2006, 06:59:52 PM »

I bought my X800 from ATI's Clearance center over a year ago and have not had a glitch.

Now they have the X850 AGP for $139

Now that is a deal.

http://shop.ati.com/product.asp?sku=2699206

Tapakeg

LePaul · « **Reply #10 on:** July 21, 2006, 07:50:07 PM »

Check this article out, lots of good deals to be had if you are leaning towards nVidia