7800 GT or 7800 GS Price/performance OC'd

[SithUK]

Reading net forums the 7800GS overclocks to 500Mhz/1.4Ghz fairly easily.

How well does the 7800GT overclock? If anyone can give average % increases over stock that are achieved by the community I'd be very happy

I'm weighing up the price/performance to buying a card to compliment my high end Skt478 system.

It seems the 7800GS can be overclocked to 7800GT stock performance levels. Question is: how far can the 7800GT be pushed?

The pros/cons of Skt478 owners moving to a PCI-e system have been discussed to death so lets not re-hash old ground... I'm considering the 7800GS because it will hold its value (if not increase) in 12months when I make the move to the DX10 cards and new CPU architectures.

Anyone else surprised they haven't seen a direct overclock comparison of these two cards considering the size of the high end Skt478 market that are lumbered with AGP?

Thanks.

 

[man_from_uncle]

The 7800gts overclock really well. Most tend to get about a 15-20% increase on both core and memory (while staying artifact free) which make them a bit quicker than a stock 7800gtx.

When I ran with my card and CPU at stock I got about 6900 in 3dmark05. With both overclocked i get 8300.

 

[Seirrah]

Hi Sith, I was in the same situation as you and went for the 7800GS. I sold my 6800GT and it meant that the 7800GS cost me about £60 net - which is great.
I'm using the BFG which has a stock clock of 400Mhz and it's running at 475Mhz with the standard cooler, and that's not at its limit. It's much better than my 6800GT, especially at the resolutions I use it at.

Unfortunately I've not got any info to add about the 7800GT, I'm just waiting til DX10, new CPUs etc before a big upgrade.

 

[eatmuchpie]

The new range of nvidia cards will be release on 9th of march, so may be worth while waiting a week or two for that. They should be clocked higher and be better overclockers also because they are to be built on a 90nm process (the 7800's are 110nm)

Hope that helps!

EDIT: just realised that you are talking about AGP, not PCI-Express. Still, there is a posibility that they will be released for AGP.

 

[SithUK]

The new range of nvidia cards will be release on 9th of march, so may be worth while waiting a week or two for that. They should be clocked higher and be better overclockers also because they are to be built on a 90nm process (the 7800's are 110nm)

Hope that helps!

EDIT: just realised that you are talking about AGP, not PCI-Express. Still, there is a posibility that they will be released for AGP.

Thanks for the info! I'll certainly hang fire for a week and wait for the new range to come out and lower prices.

I'm basically wondering if it's worth my while pulling out my m/b and swapping it for a Skt478/PCIe board (the asus one). It wouldn't cost me anything financially as I can sell my P4C800e-deluxe for the same price as the PCIe board costs new.

That I can do this is actually a perfect example of top of the line old hardware holding it's price... which is my point about buying a 7800GS, It'll not lose much money over the course of a year whereas a 7800GT will plummet as new PCIe cards come out and outperform it.

I could be persuaded to put up with the hassel of rebuilding my system and auctioning components IF the 7800GT (overclocked) dwarfs the 7800GS (overclocked) in performance terms.

Thats the question I would like answered