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Upgrade-How much faster?

pete1336

pete1336

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I'm currently running an old Geforce 6800 gt 256 mb. I'm considering upgrading real soon to one of the below cards. I'm not a PC gamer so don't really need the power that the 8800 gts will give me...but what I'd like to know is :
1. How much faster will the BFG 9600 gt 512mb be than my 6800gt?
2. Same question for the BFG 8800 gts 512mb?
3. Lastly, how much faster will the 8800 gts be than the 9600 gt?

Other than web usage my main PC use is home video editing.

Thanks.
 
Pinnacle studio plus 11.
I'm upgrading the card now as I have the cash and need to make the jump from agp to pci express. After my summer holiday (when more funds will be available) I'm doing a system overhaul and trading my old dual core amd 4400 skt 939 to the overclocked q6600 which is part of the bundle offering here
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-101-OK

I know that the 8800 gts is 9.5 inches long but how long is the BFG 9600gt?
 
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Can anyone with a good knowledge of the above cards give me an indication as to how much more powerful they will be over a 6800gt please? I'm hoping to order this evening.
Thanks, appreciate your help
 
From the top, its 8800GTS (512MB) > 8800GT (512MB) > 9600

The 9600 & 8800 are single slot & not that long.

All are significantly faster than any 6000 series card. Compare here :cool:
 
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Thanks hp7909, I was aware that both the 9600 and 8800gts were faster than the 6800gt but what I'm after is an indication as to whether they are 2 or 3 times faster or whatever. The link you kindly provided didn't include the 9600 to compare against (unless I can't see for looking). I think it was an old(ish) chart.
 
pete1336 said:
The link you kindly provided didn't include the 9600 to compare against (unless I can't see for looking). I think it was an old(ish) chart.
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They don't yet have it up. But using reviews you can estimate that its also significantly faster, e.g. 6800GT scores 1158 in 3DMark 06 while a 9600GT, 9015 :eek: Like I said, don't forget we talking about 2/3 generations later from 6000 series :)
 
The 9600GT is slightly slower than the 880GT.

How much faster/ How long is a piece of string? It's very difficult to quantify exactly how much faster, unfortunately, but there are ways of getting rough indications.

Using VGA charts, if you start with the premise that the 9600GT is slightly slower than the 8800GT, then you can plot it from there. Alternatively, start from reviews of the 6800GT and track the evolution of graphics cards from there, taking processor scaling into account. Unfortunately, neither method is a precise one due to the inherent variability of chipsets, memory and processors used to condcut the benchmarks.

To answer another one of your questions:

9600GT (slower than) 8800GT (slower than) 8800GTS. But these three cards are very, very similar in terms of performance: I doubt you'd notice the difference ,tbh.

As an asdie from that, are you planning on upgrading your motherboard at the same time as the graphics card, as from your post it seems you're going to buy a PCI-Express card to replace an AGP one without changing the motherboard...? I don't think you need me to tell you it's not going to work...

Besides, if you're not a gamer, just buy a 2400PRO and enjoy the HD-decoding.
 
pete1336 said:
I'm doing a system overhaul and trading my old dual core amd 4400 skt 939 to the overclocked q6600 which is part of the bundle offering here
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=BU-101-OK
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mrthingyx said:
As an asdie from that, are you planning on upgrading your motherboard at the same time as the graphics card, as from your post it seems you're going to buy a PCI-Express card to replace an AGP one without changing the motherboard...? I don't think you need me to tell you it's not going to work...
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/bursts your bubble
 
Ok, thanks all for your replies.
@mrthingyx, whilst I'm grateful for you looking out for me, my current mobo is the asrock dual sata 939, it has an agp slot and a pcie slot. I'm ok on that front.
I've ordered the 9600gt, should be with me soon. Shame the wife is keeping it and my HP 22" monitor from me until my birthday on 9th April :-(
 
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