7800gt and new mobo or 7800gs?

[TrueEevil]

My 6600gt is killing my gaming performance and its time to upgrade. However i Have a socket 754 A64 3000+ and I dont have the money to buy an new CPU and a Vid card. My mobo is a nF3 Lanparty which only has an AGP slot.
I was set on getting the 7800gs but the benchmarks underwhelmed me and i began to look for a PCI-E solution. Unforunately all the mobos ive found that will work are budget boards that all seem to have one problem or another. So should i continue to look for a new Mobo and then get the 7800gt or Is it a better idea to go with the 7800gs and keep the lanparty?

 

[Powermoloch]

upgrade the mobo and have a 7800GT....how much you'll willing to spend?

 

[TrueEevil]

I have about $280 on hand + whatever i can get for the Lanparty and 6600gt.

 

[Piuc2020]

You can get a 7800GT and a half decent mobo for 350ish, you can get definitely get 120+ for your mobo+6600GT.

 

[Cooler]

7800GT you wil be better off since have to go PCI-e sometime

 

[TrueEevil]

Good point, I wont get a new rig till i go to college, which is 18 months away. So its probably worth it to go PCI-e instead of waiting till later in its lifecycle, i dont forsee more 754 boards comming out .

 

[hooflung]

Why not buy a ASRock 939Dual SATA 2, cheap socket 939 CPU and use your AGP card. You will get a performance boost over the 754 ( I did ) and you can use your 6600GT right now then upgrade later. It has a PCI-E slot at full 16X as well as fullspeed AGP 8X. It is what I did. I went from a 6800NU unlocked/overclocked to a 7800GT and its great.

Not to mention you will step up to dual channel memory now and have the option of the new AM2 socket when it drops. Its the perfect board for your situation.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: hooflung
Why not buy a ASRock 939Dual SATA 2, cheap socket 939 CPU and use your AGP card. You will get a performance boost over the 754 ( I did ) and you can use your 6600GT right now then upgrade later. It has a PCI-E slot at full 16X as well as fullspeed AGP 8X. It is what I did. I went from a 6800NU unlocked/overclocked to a 7800GT and its great.

Not to mention you will step up to dual channel memory now and have the option of the new AM2 socket when it drops. Its the perfect board for your situation.

The only trouble with that is, there's no such thing as a really cheap socket 939 cpu.

The asrock is a fun board though, but its quirky.

My suggestion is to do some research on the pci-e socket 754 boards out there and find one that you can tolerate and make the switch. Seems like the only AGP solutions coming out these days are screw jobs compared to their pci-e counterparts.

 

[hooflung]

My 939Dual SATAII is not quirky. Worked fine with an X2 3800+ with 2GiG cas2 OCZDDR400 at 1T and an AGP eVGA 6800NU ( circa 10/2004 ) unlocked and overclocked with NV Silencer, WD 80gig 8mb 7.2 and Maxtor 60gig 2mb 7.2 HD PATA's on primary EIDE and Toshiba 16x DVD-ROM ( circa 2001 ) and NEC DVD+/- R/RW ( circa 2003 ) on Windows XP Home Service Pack 2. Soundblaster Audigy 2 and Intel 100/1000 PRO PCI NIC.

Now its fun and gunning same setup except I just moved the 6800NU to a barton 2800+ and aquired a eVGA 7800GT. I got the 78GT with a SLI mobo combo and decided to not use it. Its still unopened in the box. I also upgraded to XP PRO SP2 ( thx to MSDN sub ).

Haven't got anything but good things to say about the 939Dual SATAII. I use 1.5 bios that was flashed from Windows XP HOME from 1.20 that came stock.

happy happy hooligan I am.

 

[beggerking]

Yes. Go for PCI-E and GT. 7800gt is a much more capable than 7800gs.
board for $60.99