BFG 7800 GT OC 256DDR3 still good?

[Magusigne]

Well With the advent of spore coming up I wanted to upgrade my video card to an 8800GTX but after reading up on the newer cards it was finally decided that it would be more advantageous to upgrade my rig as my Pentium 820 D @stock would be bottlenecking the hell out of the 8800 GTX.

My Old Rig is a Dell 9100 Vanilla. Only notable things are my BFG 7800GT OC (paid like 330 back in the day) and 4gb of ram.

My current rig is under construction but i should see a "slight" improvement in frame rates you think? Even with my old card?

E8400 on an Abit PRO+ 4gb of XMS2 RAM?

so is the BFG 7800 GT OC still hanging in there or is it almost time to upgrade?

 

[Snakexor]

i would say upgrade your vid card before the cpu/mem, especially since you have 4gb of ram and would also need to buy a new case/psu/hsf

3870ftw

 

[Magusigne]

I was told numerous times that 8800+ would be completely bottle necked by my processor.

By The way I've already bought my pieces of my new rig, at amazing prices btw so its already done.

I just wanted to know if the 7800 GT OC was sub par nowadays compared to the 8800's

 

[Munky]

Instead of getting an 8800gtx, get a 8800gt for like $200 less, and almost the same performance. You will still see a big improvement over a 7800gt, but your processor will definitely hold you back, so you will not be using the 8800gt to its full potential. Overall a 8800gt is about 3x faster than a 7800gt, and modern games stress the video card heavily, so a 7800gt will not run the latest games smoothly, no matter what processor you combine it with.

 

[kurt454]

I have a 7800 GT in my second computer. The newest generation of games choke on it. You can play smoothly by turning all the ingame video settings down, but if it was me, I would go ahead and spring for an 8800GT or 3870.