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Rob G
.... and none of them is a clear winner. My 9800Pro died on me so I was left
scrambling for a replacement
video card on the weekend. It puts me in a dilemna because right now I have
a P4 2.8ghz with AGP bus.
I was not planning on a system upgrade for a while yet, but I don't want to
buy an AGP card that I cannot use
in the next system I buy. I'm also torn between sticking with ATI or going
with Nvidia because there's good
and bad points to each. So I bought a 6800GT on the weekend with the option
to return it if I don't like it.
For $30 more, I can get an X850 XT (not PE) which is faster, but lacks 3.0
shaders. Yeah I know they say 2.0b
is almost as good, but I think 3.0 is where the safe money is. Then I have
to think about do I want to spend
almost $600Cdn on a video card when the PC gaming market has seen better
days (losing a lot of ground to
console gaming). Then there's also the fact that while some cards are
faster than others, at what point does a
person draw the line? If my HL2 game plays at 60fps, does it really get
better at 100fps?
My choices:
Keep the 6800GT
Return 6800GT and buy the 850XT or save a bit and go with the 800XL.
If games are going to start supporting more HDR, are the ATI cards going to
suffer because they don't
have shader 3 support? Is Valve delaying the HDR ATI levels to give ATI
time to come out with their
next product? It probably would not be a good thing for the 'ATI Levels' to
come out and run alot
faster on the newly released 7800GTX compared to the hardware they were
named for. Hey this is just
speculation on my part.
I guess the bus type is my primary concern, but also the shader support.
Opinions?
scrambling for a replacement
video card on the weekend. It puts me in a dilemna because right now I have
a P4 2.8ghz with AGP bus.
I was not planning on a system upgrade for a while yet, but I don't want to
buy an AGP card that I cannot use
in the next system I buy. I'm also torn between sticking with ATI or going
with Nvidia because there's good
and bad points to each. So I bought a 6800GT on the weekend with the option
to return it if I don't like it.
For $30 more, I can get an X850 XT (not PE) which is faster, but lacks 3.0
shaders. Yeah I know they say 2.0b
is almost as good, but I think 3.0 is where the safe money is. Then I have
to think about do I want to spend
almost $600Cdn on a video card when the PC gaming market has seen better
days (losing a lot of ground to
console gaming). Then there's also the fact that while some cards are
faster than others, at what point does a
person draw the line? If my HL2 game plays at 60fps, does it really get
better at 100fps?
My choices:
Keep the 6800GT
Return 6800GT and buy the 850XT or save a bit and go with the 800XL.
If games are going to start supporting more HDR, are the ATI cards going to
suffer because they don't
have shader 3 support? Is Valve delaying the HDR ATI levels to give ATI
time to come out with their
next product? It probably would not be a good thing for the 'ATI Levels' to
come out and run alot
faster on the newly released 7800GTX compared to the hardware they were
named for. Hey this is just
speculation on my part.
I guess the bus type is my primary concern, but also the shader support.
Opinions?