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the Chase

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This time w/Nvidia as the Inquirer is reporting them coming out with a AGP 6800GS model!! Whats odd to me is they are having IBM refire up the NV40 chip....But with 12 pipes yet?? C'mon Nvidia, bring out a vanilla 7800 AGP card already.(16 pipes please).
 
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A PCI-e 6800GS is interesting because it's cheap and is an affordable SLI solution. An AGP 6800GS is kind of pointless; didn't we have a 12-pipe card with a higher clockspeed selling for <$200 for the last year or so (the X800 Pro)? The X800 Pro has been selling for $179 for months at the ATI store - what 'value' does the 6800GS bring to the AGP market?

I don't think an AGP 6800GS is very exciting because it doesn't bring any new performance to the AGP market, and isn't any faster than the 6800GT. If the 7800GT or GTX were to come to AGP, then it would be a totally different story.

Btw, good to see inquirer totally go back on their word in a span of 24 hours. Downright impressive!
 
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Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
A PCI-e 6800GS is interesting because it's cheap and is an affordable SLI solution. An AGP 6800GS is kind of pointless; didn't we have a 12-pipe card with a higher clockspeed selling for <$200 for the last year or so (the X800 Pro)? The X800 Pro has been selling for $179 for months at the ATI store - what 'value' does the 6800GS bring to the AGP market?

I don't think an AGP 6800GS is very exciting because it doesn't bring any new performance to the AGP market, and isn't any faster than the 6800GT. If the 7800GT or GTX were to come to AGP, then it would be a totally different story.

Btw, good to see inquirer totally go back on their word in a span of 24 hours. Downright impressive!
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I agree.It fills a much needed spot in the card lineup for Nv but only because they stopped making the 6800GT AGP card. I know they are in this to make money but a price reduced 16 pipe 6800GT would have been fine with me.(Was going to probably buy one as soon as they hit the $200 mark- looks like that will never materialize.
 
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Originally posted by: jiffylube1024
A PCI-e 6800GS is interesting because it's cheap and is an affordable SLI solution. An AGP 6800GS is kind of pointless; didn't we have a 12-pipe card with a higher clockspeed selling for <$200 for the last year or so (the X800 Pro)? The X800 Pro has been selling for $179 for months at the ATI store - what 'value' does the 6800GS bring to the AGP market?

I don't think an AGP 6800GS is very exciting because it doesn't bring any new performance to the AGP market, and isn't any faster than the 6800GT. If the 7800GT or GTX were to come to AGP, then it would be a totally different story.

Btw, good to see inquirer totally go back on their word in a span of 24 hours. Downright impressive!
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THe X800PRO performed very horribly compared to the 6800GT. THe GS performs EXACTLY like the GT, so its more performance.
 
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jiffylube1024

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Originally posted by: Hacp

Btw, good to see inquirer totally go back on their word in a span of 24 hours. Downright impressive!
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THe X800PRO performed very horribly compared to the 6800GT. THe GS performs EXACTLY like the GT, so its more performance.[/quote]

No it didn't! Rollo has warped your mind! Performance was actually quite close. The X800 Pro was almost neck and neck with the GT in some instances; it got smoked bad in OpenGL games like Doom3 (although later drivers would at least make it competitive), but was about a tie in D3D games like Far Cry, HL2, etc. And it was a much more solid competitor than the 6800nu.

Plus, the X800 Pro came with RAM rated for either 1Ghz or the same stuff on the X800XT (depending on if you got the VIVO version or not); most 475/900 Mhz X800 Pros could overclock easily to 525/1050 and above, making them a bit slower than a 6800 Ultra (which most GT's would clock to), but faster than the base 6800GT.

The X800Pro was underrated; it had 256MB of GDDR3 just like the X800XT and 6800GT, but it has been dissed so much that people make it sound like it was in the same class as the 6800nu. It wasn't.

The main knock on the X800 Pro was the "features" argument because it had SM2.0b, while the 6800 cards had SM 3.0. Which turned out to be all but a moot point for that generation.
 
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Hi guys,
Can someone tell me what my options are if I want an AGP card that will accelerate HD (H.264) video? The inquirer is saying that there aren't any unless a AGP X1800 comes out...
 
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