might be grabbing a leadtek 7800GT, was supposed to be getting an X1800XL for £160 from an OCUK member but the guy turned out to be either fraudulant or just a plane idiot. (and notice after e-mails to 7 mods, ive had no reply...)
so it looks like im going for the GT as my budgets about £160. now the reason im upgrading is because im after SM3.0 + HDR, (im a half life 2 nut and no HDR is bugging me, plus i notice a lot of games are comming out which use sm3.0 now and although they will work with 2.0b, im missing out on certain details) and i guess i get the added bonus of going for SLI in say 6 months when i will need the extra power. but i wondered what your thoughts on the extra performance would be?
also do you think its worth buying a GT now? or should i wait till the 7900 comes out and see if the GT prices drop to save myself some money???
my current GTO2 (first batch, not the later crappy revisions) scores 6250 3D05 marks when clocked at its max of 540gpu 580 mem (up from 400 / 490) based on "that there auction site" i can probably get £110 to £130 so the outlay would be small...
so it looks like im going for the GT as my budgets about £160. now the reason im upgrading is because im after SM3.0 + HDR, (im a half life 2 nut and no HDR is bugging me, plus i notice a lot of games are comming out which use sm3.0 now and although they will work with 2.0b, im missing out on certain details) and i guess i get the added bonus of going for SLI in say 6 months when i will need the extra power. but i wondered what your thoughts on the extra performance would be?
also do you think its worth buying a GT now? or should i wait till the 7900 comes out and see if the GT prices drop to save myself some money???
my current GTO2 (first batch, not the later crappy revisions) scores 6250 3D05 marks when clocked at its max of 540gpu 580 mem (up from 400 / 490) based on "that there auction site" i can probably get £110 to £130 so the outlay would be small...
