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6800 oc still worthy?

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imported_SC4RF4C3

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my set consists of...
amd 64 3700
ga-k8u-939
2 gigs of ram
bfg 6800 oc AGP

I play quite a few games and not sure if my card is some what of a bottle neck or is the whole system.

Anywya if I wanted to upgrade which card is out there that would give me a nice boost as far as video goes?
 
wow and thats the 6800 ultra mine is the simple 6800.
that card is quite high priced for an AGP card, would it be better to wait until I can upgrade my whole machine to pci-e ?

I have been trying to just get this machine to go another year or so.
 
Originally posted by: SC4RF4C3
any other advice?
also would an X1300 be better?
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X1300 would be a horrendous downgrade

stick to what you have, it should be fine for another year @ 1024 w/ med/low settings on new games
 
keep your current setup, 6800 is not bad..

when r600 midrange/8800 midrange come out, upgrade your platform to pci-e.
 
Make sure it's not an XT equivelent with crippled pipelines The XT preforms close to a x1300 actualy n' the OC won't help it if it is. Yet if it's a GT or GS equal, it would be quite a worthy card.
 
A 7600GS AGP is around 5~15% faster than the 6600GT AGP. I would suspect that the 7600GS is faster than the 6800OC.

You could look for used cards like 6800GT AGP/X800XL etc.
 
7600 is probably slower than 6800 because of the configuration (# of pipelines and so on). Isn't the second number in the name a symbol of class while first number a generation. i.e. 6800 is a older generation of 7800 and 6600 older generation of 7600? Thus despite the 7 to 6 advantage, 6800 might still outperform 7600?
 
Originally posted by: yiranhu
7600 is probably slower than 6800 because of the configuration (# of pipelines and so on). Isn't the second number in the name a symbol of class while first number a generation. i.e. 6800 is a older generation of 7800 and 6600 older generation of 7600? Thus despite the 7 to 6 advantage, 6800 might still outperform 7600?
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Firstly the 7600GT is 10~20% faster than the 6800 ultra in newer games.
The 7600GS, although being crippled with a slower core speed and memory speed it still faster than the 6600GT AGP by 5~15%. A 6600GT was equal to performance with the 6800nu most the time if not faster due to the GDDR3 configuration.

The number of pipelines may matter etc but the 6 series "pipeline" differs with the 7 series "pipeline". There are many more architectural changes that make the 7 series more efficent than the 6 series.
 
Don't bother with the 6600GT or 6800GS... neither is much of an upgrade from the 6800nu.

If you really want to upgrade your AGP card, about the best bang-for-buck upgrade you could do now that would give you a boost in newer games is the 7600GT.
 
Originally posted by: Wolfshanze
Don't bother with the 6600GT or 6800GS... neither is much of an upgrade from the 6800nu.

If you really want to upgrade your AGP card, about the best bang-for-buck upgrade you could do now that would give you a boost in newer games is the 7600GT.
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Yep, I agree. I used to have a 6800, but gave it to my brother and replaced it with a $20 Geforce 2 MX (switched to Linux for a year or so).

I just bought a 7600 GT last week, and it's a decent upgrade from what I remember of the 6800 performance. It's not really a night and day difference in older games though.
 
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