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7800 AGP

jeffa123

jeffa123

jeffa123

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Nvidia not only insult us by releasing the latest card 6 months out of date but make it uneconomical and downright stupidity to upgrade. I don't see what the 7800 GS is going to offer me over my 6800 Ultra as they both support the same hard and software rendition programs and and a 16 pipeline burst. Whereas the PCI express versions come in 20 and 24 pipeline burst modes. The architecture is largely the same. Perhaps it may have a few bells and whistles but not enough to warrant me upgrading to. Or are Nvidia taking the P*** as usual.

One abused user! :mad:
 
They released for people with slower cards than your 6800ultra. As you say there is no point you buying one, but other people will benefit from them.

You are going to have to bite the bullet and go PCI-E to see an improvement in Graphics performance. I dont think Nvidia meant it as a personal attack at you! :)
 
Yeah its no benefit at all to you, it only manages to keep up with your Ultra in some cases, so your Ultra is better. :)

Anyone with a 6 series, or x8 series card should forget it.
 
I didn't take it as a personal attack on me but an attack on all 6800 ultra owners. Why not give it 20 pipelines rather than 16, then there would be some extra benefit derived from new users. Nvidia are getting as indicisive as they are about charging extra money for the software support package designed speciffically for the card in both AGP and PCI-E. Are nvidia out to grab as much as they can before they are bought out?
 
I highly doubt Nvidia are being bought out... but they are a business, of course they are out to grab as much money as possible. The 7800GS was all the NEEDED to produce and it will have much higher success rates at the fabrication plants which means it is far cheaper to produce. Basically any that have 2 quads damaged get used for the 7800GS rather than being thrown away.
 
jeffa123 said:
I didn't take it as a personal attack on me but an attack on all 6800 ultra owners. Why not give it 20 pipelines rather than 16, then there would be some extra benefit derived from new users. Nvidia are getting as indicisive as they are about charging extra money for the software support package designed speciffically for the card in both AGP and PCI-E. Are nvidia out to grab as much as they can before they are bought out?
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You really have no idea about how a business works. Nvidia bought out.. I literally LOL'ed at that.
 
St0rmer66 said:
You really have no idea about how a business works. Nvidia bought out.. I literally LOL'ed at that.
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Agreed, if you want better (like me with my 6800GT) then were looking at a new PCI-e board I'm afraid mate.

Don't diss Nvidia, they've done many people with AGP systems and poorer cards a real favour, not to mention saved them a packet in new hardware.

Welcome to the PC business! :rolleyes: ;)
 
90% of that power is gained from shader model 3.0 i guess.
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to the op: i dont see why your ranting tbh, you want power?
then you have no choice but to upgrade to pci-e simple as that realy.
no **** taking at all, its called business and nvidia knows how to go about it.
the fact is, is the 7800gs is designed for people with fx cards and 9x00 cards as a final upgrade for the agp systems that they run, not people who got the best possible stuff for agp systems.


i think people running agp should be happy that nvidia bothered, i havnt heard of an agp version of the x1800 or x1900, so nvidia now has the agp side of things covered. :)
 
The new card doesnt have same as your 6800U

It has 16 pipes and 6 vertex processors but only 8 (cant remember term for it,where as yours has 16)
Someone will fill in the term I cant remember and its movie time, If not I get info later.

http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/319/

http://www.guru3d.com/article/Videocards/319/2/

There you only see the above pipes and vertex's, I cant find other site where it showed you more info, I could be wrong, I can only just remember reading it and someone here pointed it out also.

Anyhow movie time
 
Ok back from movie, not sure, I cant find review that had a feature table with more info than the above I posted.

It was one of the more famous sites. :confused:
 
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