What to get...

RuggieBear

HIS Excalibur ATI Radeon X800 XL ICEQII 256MB DDR3 TV-Out/DVI (AGP) - Retail (RX800XL-AGPVICEQ) (GX-037-HT)

or

XFX GeForce 6800 GS Extreme Edition 256MB GDDR3 VIVO TV-Out/DVI (AGP) - Retail (GX-060-XF)

Both reasonable value for the short term.... ANybody have any ideas?

Khannie

The 6800 series are a quality card. I have the 6800GT myself. Lovely piece of kit. If you intend even considering linux, there's no contest. Otherwise you're down to looking at benchmarks v's cost really. They should be fairly close cards, but I think the 6800GS will pip the X800XL in most benchmarks (though it is ever so slightly more expensive).

Don't forget to take the psp out of your sig.

edit: Just a personal thing....I wouldn't buy either card in AGP format. I'd wait until you're doing a full upgrade. If you need some extra graphics beef in the mean-time, depending on what you already have, I'd get a 128MB 6600GT. Just me though.

jonski

Giving advice is not my strong point but I have just finished reading an article on pc zone about which graphics cards to buy at the moment.

They are recomending the radeon x800gto from www.gecube.com for 115 sterling and they feel it can out preform the 6800gt at higher detail levels .


edit: had I looked more closely I would have seen that it was for agp you were looking ......sorry .

RuggieBear

Khannie wrote:

The 6800 series are a quality card. I have the 6800GT myself. Lovely piece of kit. If you intend even considering linux, there's no contest. Otherwise you're down to looking at benchmarks v's cost really. They should be fairly close cards, but I think the 6800GS will pip the X800XL in most benchmarks (though it is ever so slightly more expensive).

That's what i was thinking tbh...that XFX is suppossed to be oc'ed to near enough 6800GT levels which considering the price is a steal.

Only thing is the 6800gs only has 12 pipes versus the radeons 16....not sure if that makes a huge diff but i really don't know enough of this generations technology.

Don't forget to take the psp out of your sig.

Oops...i had quite forgotten that was there:)

RuggieBear

jonski wrote:

Giving advice is not my strong point but I have just finished reading an article on pc zone about which graphics cards to buy at the moment.

They are recomending the radeon x800gto from www.gecube.com for 115 sterling and they feel it can out preform the 6800gt at higher detail levels .


edit: had I looked more closely I would have seen that it was for agp you were looking ......sorry .

I'm getting a 754 shuttle and refuse to go pci express...i'm a bit mad tbh

RuggieBear

just realised....will that radeon fit in a shuttle with that bloody cooler...

/me runs off and sees which side AGP slot is

stevenmu

According to here the AGP version of the 6800GS can have the extra pipelines and vertex shaders unlocked. I've a plain 6800 and it worked very well, but it's not guarenteed to work and you shouldn't buy one because of it, but if you do get one and it does work then it's a nice bonus. Details on how to do it should be on the Rivatuner forum at Guru3d

RuggieBear

i tthink i'll get the 6800gs...now i wonder who's selling it cheapest?

hosi

RuggieBear wrote:

i tthink i'll get the 6800gs...now i wonder who's selling it cheapest?

I consider to buy this one: http://www3.hardwareversand.de/8V2LaQ4u_3BlLi/2/articledetail.jsp?aid=5950&agid=394

RuggieBear

hosi wrote:

I consider to buy this one: http://www3.hardwareversand.de/8V2LaQ4u_3BlLi/2/articledetail.jsp?aid=5950&agid=394

Problem is i'm [glow=4]AGP[/glow]

hosi

RuggieBear wrote:

Problem is i'm [glow=4]AGP[/glow]

ups...
maybe this one:
http://www3.hardwareversand.de/8V2LaQ4u_3BlLi/2/articledetail.jsp?aid=6144&agid=279

RuggieBear

hosi wrote:

ups...
maybe this one:
http://www3.hardwareversand.de/8V2LaQ4u_3BlLi/2/articledetail.jsp?aid=6144&agid=279

Nice one....That's about 35 euro cheaper than komplett inc delivery

Kintarō Hattori

jonski wrote:

Giving advice is not my strong point but I have just finished reading an article on pc zone about which graphics cards to buy at the moment.

They are recomending the radeon x800gto from www.gecube.com for 115 sterling and they feel it can out preform the 6800gt at higher detail levels .


edit: had I looked more closely I would have seen that it was for agp you were looking ......sorry .

It's my understanding that the X800GTO is a competitor for the 6600GT series of cards. I don't think it can out perform a 6800GT.