Comparison

**bennie** · 04-15-06, 10:43 PM

I've got some vidoe card money (around $200) and so I would like some advice on which to choose. I've had my eye on an x800/x850 since before I had any money and have pretty much shunted the 6800s over to the side but now that the next-gen gpus have come out, I've been looking at the 7600. I know bigdog will side with the x800s...and I'm leaning towards those aswell because of the fact that the x800s are 256-bit. I don't really plan on getting vista or whatever so it will probably be better to just get an x800. Any way, I would like some tech advice

**~~insanegammer109~~** · 04-15-06, 10:47 PM

u can get an nvidia 6600 for about 150 thats what im runnin on. works good. kinda outa date but cheap and good. just a suggestion.

**LethaL_ImpuLse** · 04-15-06, 10:57 PM

I would also suggest a 6600GT. I use it and can run DoD fine on high settings, and Oblivion on medium. Great card for the price, and it's only around 100 bucks now.

**geeseven** · 04-16-06, 09:31 AM

PCI-E or AGP?

**LethaL_ImpuLse** · 04-16-06, 09:37 AM

Mine's AGP. Outdated .. but hell, it works.

**jason_jinx** · 04-16-06, 09:38 AM

man the hell with nvidia buy that shit if you plan on playing doom a lot. When you want a good card that will run a hell of a lot better on the valve/source engine go with the x800 or x850. My x800 works badass
ATI all the way YEAH!!!!!!!!!! :twisted:

**fury** · 04-16-06, 12:44 PM

If you don't already have a PCI-E compatible motherboard, you would have to buy a whole new setup, seeing as how you would probably need to buy new RAM, a better processor to go with the motherboard, and of course, the 150+ video card.

I'm using a 7800GT, I like it.

On the other hand, all the AGP cards that no-one buys anymore because they've all moved up to PCI-Express are still the same price, so you could either spend 150 on an AGP card, or 500+ on the PCI-E Video Card, Motherboard, Processor, and RAM. But if you already have a PCI-E compatible motherboard + all the other necessary stuff, it's all good.

**bennie** · 04-23-06, 01:05 AM

i've got a kickass system already...minus the video card. 2.2 ghz (2 ghz fsb) Athlon64 3500+ 1 GB DDR400 Radeon X200. Yes I do have PCI-E. I have system that I play CSS in at another house and it's AGP. My grandma thought I needed a 7800 because I mentioned it to her once so she got the only AGP 7800 around for me. The sad thing is that the computer totally sucks otherwise so I can only run CSS at 1027x768. What a waste of a 7800. oh well that's still better than what I play on now. I can only run CSS at 800x600 with 30 fps. Thanks for the advice guys. I found an absolutely beautiful x800 512mb for only $130 before rebate. Take a look at this thing.. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814102684
The only thing I can see that isn't so good is the GDDR2 memory but with 512mb for only $130...jesus. I can put up with the RAM thing. Plus it's 256-bit so +++++ for it.