x800 gto2 upgrade?

[Humate]

I currently have a sapphire x800 gto2 unlocked to 16 pipelines and overclocked... i managed 6,775 in 3Dmark05 with it.

Im currently building a friend a new PC... so i have the opportunity to get rid of my old graphics card and slot it in my mates machine for like £75 and then buy a new one. I dont really wanna spend much. I was wondering whether theres a card i could get for under £150 that would give me a GOOD performance increase over what i already have.

Thanks

my spec:
- AMD Athlon 64 4000+ San Diego 90nm (Socket 939) - Retail (ADA4000BNBOX) (CP-120-AM)
- Asus A8N-SLi Premium nForce4 SLi (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard (MB-111-AS)
- Corsair 2GB DDR XMS3200C2PT TwinX (2x1GB) CAS2 (MY-079-CS)
- Sapphire ATI Radeon X800 GTO² 256MB DDR3 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-101-SP)
- Western Digital Caviar Special Edition 320GB 3200JD SATA 8MB Cache - OEM (HD-045-WD)

 

[benjo]

HIS Excalibur ATI Radeon X1800 GTO ICEQ3 SILENT TURBO 256MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-054-HT) Price: £124.95 (£146.82 Including VAT at 17.5%)

when it comes out lol

Other than that, theres always the 7600's.. but not sure what kind of performance boost there is

 

[Humate]

hrmmm wonder when they are due in

 

[Gashman]

my 7600GT gets me over 7000 mark in 3D mark 05, which is pretty good, its running fine on air cooling as well, idle temperatures are 40*C pretty much all the time, not sure about load temperatures but no artifacts or discrepencies at all, but i read a review on those HIS X1800GTO and they got the core to 729Mhz and got 9000+ 3D mark 05, here is link if your interested in giving it a look http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=3624&s=6

 

[Humate]

thanks very much gashman

 

[nbkpsycho]

I know this is off topic btw :

In that review they use a tool that changes the voltage's can you get a tool that will do that with the X800 series ??

 

[locutus12]

well for a start off, if its an original GTO2 then its worth £95 of anyones money, not £75, next, go buy an X1800XT, personally i would stretch for the 512mb version as this will then last you till say march next year.

 

[oweneades]

TBH nothing under £150 will be that much faster than your GTO2 you have now. (to warrent the outlay for one)

As above I would save up a bit more and try to strcth to the X1800XT 512 / 256 or even if you don't mind Nvidia the 7900GT.

I used to have a X800GTO2 (original with Red PCB) I could score 7.6k in 05 with it which wasn't bad. I then changed to a X1800XT and the difference in games at least was noticable.

 

[trojan698]

TBH nothing under £150 will be that much faster than your GTO2 you have now. (to warrent the outlay for one)

As above I would save up a bit more and try to strcth to the X1800XT 512 / 256 or even if you don't mind Nvidia the 7900GT.

I used to have a X800GTO2 (original with Red PCB) I could score 7.6k in 05 with it which wasn't bad. I then changed to a X1800XT and the difference in games at least was noticable.

^ what he said.

 

[Humate]

thanks guys for your input. Yeh its an original GTO2... i suppose i will either keep my gto2 and buy my mate a HIS Excalibur ATI Radeon X800 GTO ICEQII TURBO 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (RX800GTO-256ICEQT) (GX-044-HT), or, i will just sell him it for 100 quid and buy an x1900

I dont think i can really justify the cost of an x1900, i dont really even play games very often because my fingers are read me , But then i wanna buy a 24" dell (if the revisions fix any problems it may have - we will have to wait and see) so it might be a reasonable investment.