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Best to get for AGP?

danceMB

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At the moment I have a Gainward 6800GT Golden Sampled to Ultra speeds. What I want to know is if there is any card out there, Nvidia or otherwise, that would be worthwhile upgrading to?
 
NO

Your card is very close if not faster in some games than the 7800GS (Nvidia's top AGP card). The X850XT (ATI's top AGP card) is faster but not by much.
 
Stick with the 6800U on AGP or move to PCI-e.

You won't see hardly any improvement in moving to X850XT-PE ot 7800GS.
 
So the general consensus is that I should wait until I decide to move to a new mobo with PCI-e? I thought that might be the case, better than wasting money now. I will just get the sound card/HDD combo instead. Thanks guys :D
 
I can say 100% without clicking on that link that its Toms, so no surprises there, Its not wrong, look at the millions of other reviews, and you will see the x850 XT PE wallops the GS, Fear/CoD2 etc.... the list goes on, the 7800 GS will be the AGP king when the x850's aint around anymore, but seen as these guys have the x850 XT's in stock still, then they are not the AGP kings yet, as you can buy the x850 XT and clock it to a PE which it will do easily, so the x850's are still the kings. :)

Everyone knows the x850 XT PE is faster than the 6800 Ultra, so how can the 7800 GS be faster than the x850 if it can only manage to keep up with the 6800 Ultra in some cases, as in some cases the Ultra whoops it!!. :)

Look anyone can post a link, look at this one here , trouble is though, this one mirrors all the rest of them, where as Toms is different, and probably why you keep posting it. :D
 
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ummm no.. the 7800GS is the best all round performing AGP card.. the X850XT is better on a few games but all round the 7800GS is faster. and it boasts more features making it a better buy.

but back to the OP theres no point in upgrading :o
 
egt said:
Sorry kid, you've lost this round :D
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Not at all, ACESHIGH was saying the x850xt is faster than the 6800ultra, not the 7800GS ;)

But on topic as has been said don't even bother, your 6800GT @ U is plenty fast enough for now just wait for AM2 and the new intels as well as DX10 cards to see what you can get then.
 
The simple fact is that when the 7800GS is clocked at reference clocks, 375/1200, it is slower than the X850XTPE.

When the 7800GS is overclocked it pulls ahead. With the EVGA Super Overclocked version, clocked at 460Mhz core, it pulls a fair amount ahead but it gets expensive

I'd agree with the general consensus though and I'd stay with your 6800Ultra
 
Is it true to say that you should no longer look at FPS to compare all cards? Surely if they do that it will be very much harder to see which card is the very best performer?
 
It's probably not quite as simple as that

I think that they mean that some cards offer slightly better image quality at the expense of a few frames per second. Some games also perform better on different cards - for example, an nVidia card performs far better in Doom 3 than an ATI card. The gap has been closed with newer drivers for the X1800 series but when comparing X800/6800 it's still there
 
I know that in yesteryear cards that they could easily tell the difference mainly by the FPS or a 3d Mark score, but is it true to say now that with the new cards and in the future someone will have to think up a new way to see how good a card truly is, due to FPS rating passing its cell by date?
 
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