Your Graphics cards

[VIPFREAK]

$399 for the x1800 xt ?! You guys are nuts...

 

[Event]

$399 for the x1800 xt ?! You guys are nuts...

$399 for the XT????? WHERE?!?! That would be a STEAL! MOst XT's are going for $500+. $399 is pretty much the max price for X1800XL's, and that's what I'm getting.

 

[emad]

Sapphire x800xl, running the Omega Drivers. Will be modded for "quiet" cooling at high temperatures.

 

[Raghavan]

They want $399 for that thing at BB!? Oh well AGP... not gonna have that.

400 bucks? I got mine from newegg.com for 260 and it's a PCI express card. It's made by PowerColor, though, but it's a great card.

 

[VIPFREAK]

Either way... that's pretty nuts. This whole gaming stuff is getting out of hand.

 

[RobcioPL]

Either way... that's pretty nuts. This whole gaming stuff is getting out of hand.

We are hardcore like that, hehehe.

BTW, the new ATi drivers have been released, not sure if there is any power increasement, but i know it now supports the ATi 1000 series.

 

[VIPFREAK]

We are hardcore like that, hehehe.

You guys are a bad influence...

I wanna go back to the days of just a PS2 and a normal puter. Having to buy an insanely expensive and powerful puter and game console is crazy because I'm not even a gamer. I just wanna play GT5 and FEAR damn it.

 

[Event]

We are hardcore like that, hehehe.

BTW, the new ATi drivers have been released, not sure if there is any power increasement, but i know it now supports the ATi 1000 series.

They help a lot, my 05 score went from 2600 to 2900! There are pretty much performance increases all around the board. FEAR runs so much better now!

 

[VIPFREAK]

FEAR runs so much better now!

Bastard...

 

[Event]

Bastard...

 

[Pebb]

I have a AGP 256MB GF6800 GT its one of those bargin people cannot let by, if its either AGP or PCI Express.

 

[Vasco]

You have a 6800 GT and you can only play BF2 in 800x600? That must be a pretty poor 6800 Gt...or maybe it's not a GT at all? Even a basic 6800 should be able to play BF2 at 1280x1024 with at least medium.

 

[Pebb]

It is a GT I just have 2 different types of ram speeds. Which makes my PC unstable at times. Also a higher res does take away frames, what would you rather have lots of lag with 2 different types of ram.

Both DDR2700 while online or being to put it at a good balance, while running 2 different types of rams. While helping the team out and getting kills.

And to prove I have a 6800GT here is a screen shot:

 

[amp88]

Having RAM modules of different spec isn't a problem, they'll both run at the clock/timings of the slower module.

 

[Pebb]

Not mine one is something like 200MHZ and the other is 355MHZ, plus there made by 2 different companies. But I am replacing my 1GB of 2 different sticks of DDR2700 Ram, for 2GB which is 2 1GB Dimms of Dual Channel DDR3200 Ram.

Which is also low latency ram aswell, so that should allow me to finally turn up the settings higher next year yay.

 

[amp88]

I've never heard of 355MHz RAM (could be 333MHz? (i.e. DDR2700)), but they'll both be running at the speed of the slower module. They may be rated at different speeds, but in operation they'll be running at the same speed. Being made by two different companies doesn't make a difference in this situation.

 

[Pebb]

Not what IT Experts think.

 

[amp88]

Not what IT Experts think.

What?

 

[Taurine]

Wow, self confessed computer expert on the loose...!

Anyway, Radeon 9800Pro here. Haven't done any gaming in aaaaaaaages though

 

[DARRKCLOUD]

Look what i found:

70 per cent of upgrade market is still AGP

PCIe what's that?

By Fuad Abazovic in Londinium: Friday 09 December 2005, 14:57

WE LEARNED that seventy per cent of upgrade market is still AGP. There are far too many people using AGP systems that will try to get the new graphic card for the Yule shopping madness. Nvidia just cannot fill the demand and is still struggling to get its 6800 GS AGP cards out while ATI is happy with its X800 GT, GTO, XL sales. Those cards are all native AGP but some of them can be bridged with the Rialto.

When it comes to the entry level, ATI has Radeon 9550 while Nvidia wants to fight this market with 6600 chips but just cannot get enough of them. The demand is too great.

Too many of my gamer friends have AGP systems and it's much cheaper to upgrade the graphic only than to change the motherboard and sometimes CPU and memory. AMD kind of messed up as it didn’t release any socket A PCIe motherboard and it's forcing its supporters to go for Sempron or Athlon 64 socket 754 or socket 939 boards. It’s a great platform but it costs you money to upgrade.

Nvidia and ATI are still getting quite significant revenues from PCI sales, not PCIe. It's more than a decade old marchitecture but it's still good for many people. Longhorn might push people to upgrade. but that’s late Q3 or Q4 2006. Most of the AGP based cards will be good for Longhorn – Vista especially the ones with Shader Model 2.0 or higher support to support the Aero glass user interface. µ

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=28253

 

[kragbees]

Check out www.tomshardware.com for full tests off all cards ... and all overclocking etc.

I've got the 6600GT AGP ... mediocre against what you guys got ... but for me it's good enough ... can run NFSMW on 1024x768 with everything on full ...

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

Not mine one is something like 200MHZ and the other is 355MHZ, plus there made by 2 different companies. But I am replacing my 1GB of 2 different sticks of DDR2700 Ram, for 2GB which is 2 1GB Dimms of Dual Channel DDR3200 Ram.

Which is also low latency ram aswell, so that should allow me to finally turn up the settings higher next year yay.

I don't think they don't even make 200Mhz DDR. You must have a 400Mhz and a 333Mhz stick. In any case they should both work at 333Mhz.

 

[xAkirax2004]

I rock a BFG 6800GT PCI-X. Hope to buy another one for a shweet SLI setup soon.

 

[Raghavan]

I have a AGP 256MB GF6800 GT its one of those bargin people cannot let by, if its either AGP or PCI Express.

How much did you pay for it?

 

[I6-4-eva]

first video card was some 3dfx voodoo card then mx400, fx 5200 now x850 xt P.E. oc 585/626.

 

[Evolution.]

My first video card was a dreaded NVidia GeForce 100/200 MX. OMG That graphics card sucked...but I thought it was the uber leetness when I had it.

I now have a NVidia GeForce 4 MX onboard video. I know it sucks. I'm, planning to upgrade to a 6600 or maybe a 6800 AGP soon.

 

[RobcioPL]

My first video card was a dreaded NVidia GeForce 100/200 MX. OMG That graphics card sucked...but I thought it was the uber leetness when I had it.

I now have a NVidia GeForce 4 MX onboard video. I know it sucks. I'm, planning to upgrade to a 6600 or maybe a 6800 AGP soon.

MX is a horrible card, it cant even run half of the games, because it doesnt have pixel shader.

 

[Evolution.]

MX is a horrible card, it cant even run have of the games, because it doesnt have pixel shader.

Word to your mother.

Like I said, not long before I have a 6600. I just want to be able to run games that are 3493 years old on high settings (yes, i can't run old games on high settings at all....thank NVidia and their gay ass MX).

 

[RobcioPL]

I dont know why people get the Nvidia 6 series. Dont artifacts and things popping up bother you? Or did Nvidia fix this with some drivers?

 

[Event]

I dont know why people get the Nvidia 6 series. Dont artifacts and things popping up bother you? Or did Nvidia fix this with some drivers?

Plus, using any image quality filters like FSAA and AIF KILLS the framerate. ATi cards only take a small hit when adding these features. 👍 That's why I'm going for the X1800XL. The 7800GT has more raw power and yields higher framerates, but the X1800XL excells in AIF and FSAA. They're better at it, and still run hella fast with it on. Putting that stuff on is essentially free. All thanks to the Adaptive Anti-Aliasing and ringed memory bus-thingy.