shall i upgrade?

[A2Z]

Currently have XFX 6600GT @ 600/1200 along with winnie 3000 @ 2.6 on asus a8n-sli mobo

i normally play cs, along with some css, hl2, q3, q4 etc

seeing the price of the ATI Radeon X1800 XT 256MB is £170 and is considered cheap for the card, is it worth to sell my 6600gt and spend another ~£110 on this new card?

or is the 512mb a much better improvement, or shall i just wait for DX10?

normally play at 1280X1024 on my TFT, i think its the same on my CRT, cant remember exactly

thanks

 

[Ladforce]

if those are all the games you really play id stick with the 6600 if your happy with the speed and just upgrade when dx10 comes out.

 

[ACESHIGH]

DX10 likely wont play any noticeable part in games for a quite while yet.
With the cheap price & considering how much an improvement over your current card the upgrade would be, i would say get the X1800XT.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Id say go for the XT to, from a 6600 GT thats gona be an absolute astonishing performance boost, i wouldn't go rushing out for a DX10 card when they appear, as £500+ a pop for an operating system (Vista) is not worth it, by the time theres some decent DX10 stuff out, games etc... that its worth buying a DX10 card for, the first lot of DX10 cards (R600/G80) are gona be well old and struggle in em, so your gona have to shell out yet another £500+ on another card that won't.

Im just keeping my x1800 XT till the DX10 stuff starts to appear that its worth buying a DX10 card for, that way im only going to be shelling out one lot of £500+, and not a grand odd, as as i said, if you buy the first lot of DX10 cards at £500+ a pop, then your gona have to shell out yet another £500+ when the DX10 stuff starts arriving, which wont be for a good while yet.

I just cant see R600/G80 DX10 cards arriving, and having about 100 DX10 games following them outa the traps, be lucky to see 5 a year, id say about 6 months after their release there may be 1x, and at £500+, thats seriously not worth it at all, not for 1x game and an operating system.

 

[A2Z]

ok thanks for replies, i will upgrade

 

[Darkwave]

What LoadsaMoney said. The performance of the X1800XT will blow you away when you compare it to playing on your 6600GT, I moved from a GTO² @ X850 XT PE and am still completely astonished.