what do you guys think....

[Wulf190]

I have been kicking around the idea of upgrading my video card. I have run AM3 and I see a huge score difference between my CPU and GPU. I would like to make my GPU be more on terms with my CPU.

My current setup:

A64 3200+ 939 @ 2.1ghz 1.4V stock cooling
ASUS A8N-E
1024MB PC3200 Corsair value RAM
Gigabyte 6600GT 128mb cooled by a Zalman VF700-cu
(The stock cooler just sucked!)
Sound blaster 2 audigy value
80GB+120GB Seagate Barracuda SATA HDDs
Windows XP pro 32bit

I have been asking and a lot of people have said that I should go for a 7800GT. But I am not really all that keen on spending $300us on a video card. I have thought about possibly going for ther eVGA overclocked 6800GS, and also picking up a 2GB ram kit. Agian I dunno. The Primary game I run are FS9, CFS2, and IL2 FB+AEP+PF.

 

[Wulf190]

I have a PCI-E board, there won't be a 7800GS in PCI-E format.

 

[Wulf190]

Thanks for the help guys. I decided to go with hte 6800GS. The Radeon looked nice. And the price was not bad at all. But I have just had some really bad experiances with useing ATI stuff. Maybe a next upgrade.

 

[Wulf190]

Well It would have been interesting to see how my system, which uses Nvidia's N force 4 ultra chip set would have done with a radeon card. I have heard of conflicts though I could be totally wrong. But Either way I don't think I made a mistake going with eVGA's 6800GS super overclocked edition. Now Its no where near the X850XT's memory and core clock speeds, and the ATI card will trounce the 6800GS as far as benching goes.

But at 490 for the core and 1100 for the memory with added in SM3.0 I don't think its too much of a bad thing. Besides the card should perform as good, if not better then a standard 6800GT. I should see an increase when it comes to what my system will be able to handel as far as higher AF and AA setting and more eye candy from my sims, I'll probibly try experimenting with different water types in IL2 FB+AEP+PF. Thats exactly what I am looking for stability and strength, not an over all jump in FPS. Being on top oif the tech heap is great, but the problem is always trying to stay there. I'm content in finding good stuff which gives me what i'm looking for.