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6800gt or x850xt

PostPosted: Feb 10, 2006 @ 3:26am
by RedruM

PostPosted: Feb 10, 2006 @ 3:47am
by Blade Runner

PostPosted: Feb 10, 2006 @ 5:05am
by RedruM
yea I agree about the processor, but I'm open to upgrading that down the road too.

I've seen pics of shader 2 vs 3 and I've noticed SM3 does have . But personally I've always perfered smooth fps vs picture quality since I play mostly fps's like . According to toms the ati's rule HL2.

Another thing I'm wondering is how much my 3200 would bottleneck either one of these cards, should match the 6800gs better than the x850xt, but I'm sure it will still have a noticible difference in speed.

I wonder if theres a list somewhere out there that compares cpus + video cards, so you can see the best combos and minimize bottlenecking. That would be nice.

PostPosted: Feb 10, 2006 @ 11:18pm
by Blade Runner

PostPosted: Feb 12, 2006 @ 8:00am
by Brig

PostPosted: Feb 12, 2006 @ 9:38am
by sponge

PostPosted: Feb 12, 2006 @ 7:33pm
by Brig

PostPosted: Feb 12, 2006 @ 8:20pm
by RedruM
Heres my history since your all so interested.

I went from Rendition Verite, sweet card (glquake was the bomb), one of the first 2d/3d card combos and a much better alternative to the 3dfx garbage going at the time, with an AMD k6-2 300.

Then moved to Nvidia with the TNT2 when Rendition stopped making cards (what a shame) and went for a o/c'd celeron 500 because there was a good deal and it was a very good o/c'er, next was the Geforce2 gts and back to AMD with a 1.2 athlon, then a 6600gt with a 3.2 64bit athlon.

Pretty much all AMD + Nvidia since the beginning for me excluding the Rendition and a Celeron.

I thought Nvidia won the last generation, the 6600gt was killer. So are you with the 6800gs then sponge?

Dual 19"s here, anyone else using multi screens? I figure I might as well make use of extra monitors available to me.

PostPosted: Feb 13, 2006 @ 7:08pm
by refractor

PostPosted: Feb 14, 2006 @ 12:26am
by David Horn
I had a PowerVR card in my first PC.

PostPosted: Feb 14, 2006 @ 3:04am
by Brig

PostPosted: Feb 14, 2006 @ 3:36am
by chuck

PostPosted: Feb 14, 2006 @ 3:59am
by James S

PostPosted: Feb 14, 2006 @ 4:35am
by Caesar

PostPosted: Feb 14, 2006 @ 7:10am
by refractor