6800XE AGP - anyone know about it

[NovaPolice]

I found a mobo/vga combo deal at Newegg I was thinking about using to replace my roomate's old kt400a / 2500 barton / 9600 pro combo that's dying.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16813138087

Basically it's a full atx NF3 mobo with a "6800XE" agp card and I don't know how the card would do for gaming. Wonder how it would perform vs a 6800XT? 6600GT?

It gets hot up there in her room so I'm aiming for something that's not a space heater.

It says "Video: V6802XE21 (GeForce 6800XE DDR2 256MB 128BIT AGP)"

Can't find crap about it on the web.

Anyone have one, what does it compare to? Appreciate any info.

 

[daveybrat]

Well it is a Geforce 6800 card that is cut down in speeds quite a bit.

Core speed = 275MHz
Ram speed = 533MHz (also 128-bit)

This card will not be much faster if at all then the 9600pro she had before.


If you really wanna upgrade her, there are much better options out there. Socket 754 is extremely old and dated and AGP is too old as well. If you're gonna upgrade her, fine a nice cheap AM2 socket board with a good cheap PCI-e video card.

If you need suggestions, let us know.

 

[NovaPolice]

Thanks for the info mang.

Yeah if it were me and I was starting from scratch, I'd definitely go PCI-E and DDR2.

But I have a scavenged low end Athlon 64 socket 754 & hsf sitting right here along with her 2 gb of Corsair DDR1 in the machine currently and she has several IDE drives so, I'm probably still gonna go 754 and AGP, or maybe, NF4 with PCI-E.

I don't like to be wasteful.

The video card is basically about free with the board, more or less, that's kinda why I was wondering about it. I'm sure it'd kick the crap out of the integrated on all the 6100/6150 boards out there.

She plays WoW.

 

[Arkaign]

That card is more than enough for WoW (even Doom 3 / Quake 4 on modest settings)

It's an 8-pipeline card like the 6600s, and for the most part it's between a vanilla 6600 and the 6600GT.

That 2GB DDR1 will be great with the S754+AGP setup. If you're going new, obviously it'd be better to go PCIE/AM2/S775/DDR2/etc, but to make a decent system out of existing parts for decent performance, you're on the right track.