intel to amd jump

[TStep]

From a purely practical standpoint, since you have a powerful rig as it is, I would not move on to a new rig until you are ready to move on to PCIe. I would imagine there will be more highend cards being offered in the PCIe format than AGP.

That being said, if you are a hobbiest, and change your rig alot, go for it, test the waters, and decide if you like it. I'm a recent convert to A64 754 from a highly oc'ed P4. There are differences, but nothing monumental.

 

[georgestark]

damn ive changed my mind and decided to go all the way

ok just orderd a DF1 NF4 SLI-DR and a athlon 3500 winchester from dabs

Im now after 2 6800 gts looked at the leadtek 6800gt any known probs or other recomendations

cheers warren
ps anyone wanna buy bfg 6800ultra o/c old agp card lol
pps I have a viewsonic vp201s so run all games at native res 1600x1200

 

[Super6]

georgestark:
the Leadtek 6800gt's have very large hsf. You may have a problem fitting two side by side on some mobos.

Super6

 

[carlosd]

I don't think you'll notice much difference, but it is a goog upgradeabilty path towards dual cores from AMD.

 

[RussianSensation]

Waste of money period.

Doom 3
Far Cry
HL2
IL2

Save the $ for a new generation videocard or upgrade to A64 in 6 months.

 

[Alex]

congrats on finally seeing the light! :beer:

 

[Jojo1971]

Originally posted by: RussianSensation
Waste of money period.

Doom 3
Far Cry
HL2
IL2

Save the $ for a new generation videocard or upgrade to A64 in 6 months.

what he said....

 

[georgestark]

just been looking at the GV-NX68U256D-B giga byte 6880 ultra pci card cant find much info on it anybody know if this is a goo d card i can buy it in the uk for 319.90 pounds sterling dunno what tht is in us dollars

 

[stevty2889]

Originally posted by: thriemus
Kini62: good point.
However georgestark has already stated that he wants to overclock and at the moment A64 is by far the best platform for overclocking. When you think about it I can out perform a watercooled Intel P4 system at 3.9GHz on an air cooled A64 platformed. Also many people like myself want to be running the best available, and at the moment thats an A64 overclocked in my opinion.

Hey whats wrong with a watercooled P4 @3.9ghz?

 

[thriemus]

Originally posted by: stevty2889

Originally posted by: thriemus
Kini62: good point.
However georgestark has already stated that he wants to overclock and at the moment A64 is by far the best platform for overclocking. When you think about it I can out perform a watercooled Intel P4 system at 3.9GHz on an air cooled A64 platformed. Also many people like myself want to be running the best available, and at the moment thats an A64 overclocked in my opinion.

Hey whats wrong with a watercooled P4 @3.9ghz?

I didnt say anything was wrong with it, but I will be able to run Micro$haft Winblows XP 64, and suse 64 and all the other 64 bit apps that will surely flood the market when they come out. A user of a P4 will not.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Originally posted by: thriemus

I didnt say anything was wrong with it, but I will be able to run Micro$haft Winblows XP 64, and suse 64 and all the other 64 bit apps that will surely flood the market when they come out. A user of a P4 will not.

Pffft, that's what the 6xx-series P4s are for!

Er, somethin.

 

[Emultra]

Let me just humbly say that what some people don't understand is that more FPS is always good. Even 5-10, and even if you're already high.

The simple reason for that is that spare FPS can be converted into higher image quality. Got 90 FPS? Up the texture resolution to the highest, if you're not already there. Or something else, for that matter, I'd there's not a lot of people who have run completely out of graphical settings to raise in the newest games.

You don't have too many FPS until you're running in 1600x1200 or higher, with full AA and AF, and all settings att high/highest/ultra (depending on the game in question) and you never notice any lack of sufficient and spare performance.

 

[kini62]

Originally posted by: Emultra
You don't have too many FPS until you're running in 1600x1200 or higher, with full AA and AF, and all settings att high/highest/ultra (depending on the game in question) and you never notice any lack of sufficient and spare performance.

At those resolutions, doesn't it become more a a GPU limit than CPU limit? It's a moot point now since the OP already ordered his AMD stuff.

 

[Forsa]

Hi as I see it there are only 2 options for gaming computers at this point in time.
1. Get a dfi SLI-dr board and purchase only 1GPU and upgrade to SLI when you can afford it
2. Get a dfi ultra-d and get a 6600gt and wait for the R520's from radeon. Dont bother buying the 3500+ becasue when you overclock you will probably end up lowering the multiplier to 10(the same as an 3200+)

I have the 3200 vx ram and am running at 10*246 with ram at tightest timings possible for best performance (i think i hit above 7000 for bandwidth in sandra). I also have the 6800gt OC'd to something. I get 115 fps in HL2 with 1600*1200 everything at max. I still need to find the ideal drivers.

 

[carlosd]

Originally posted by: DrMrLordX

Originally posted by: thriemus

I didnt say anything was wrong with it, but I will be able to run Micro$haft Winblows XP 64, and suse 64 and all the other 64 bit apps that will surely flood the market when they come out. A user of a P4 will not.

Pffft, that's what the 6xx-series P4s are for!

Er, somethin.

Yes but the 6xx series are too expensive having less performance than cheaper A64 chips.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Originally posted by: carlosd


Yes but the 6xx series are too expensive having less performance than cheaper A64 chips.

I agree. However, the point still stands that Intel does now have a desktop chip that supports x86-64. How it performs while running 64-bit apps is a whole different ballgame.

 

[thriemus]

I think the intel 6xx range is too little too late.