Is this cards worth the money

[happy medium]

I found a good deal on a 7800+ 512 meg (g71 ,7900gt core with full 24 pipes) AGP card for 300.00$ delivered.
Good deal?
I'd rather upgrade my video card then do a full system upgrade at this time.
I figured I'd get 150.00$ for my 7800gs.

EDIT: Is my cpu is a little slow for this card? From what I understand this card easily overclocks to 7950gt speeds which would be faster then a x1950pro agp.

 

[CCityInstaller]

If you can do it for $150 out of pocket after selling your 7800GS, then I would say it's worth it if you want to prolong the life of your AGP system. If you consider the $150 cost is cheaper then buying a PCI-E 7900GT, you are actually comming out ahead IMHO. As far as your CPU bottlenecking the card, I think it depends on the resolution you play at. If you play anything higher then 1280x1024 with eye candy, then I think you are fine.

 

[happy medium]

I play at the highest possible smooth resolution with eyecandy. 1280x 1024 or 1600x1200 with my 19 inch crt.

 

[evolucion8]

Originally posted by: happy medium
I found a good deal on a 7800+ 512 meg (g71 ,7900gt core with full 24 pipes) AGP card for 300.00$ delivered.
Good deal?
I'd rather upgrade my video card then do a full system upgrade at this time.
I figured I'd get 150.00$ for my 7800gs.

EDIT: Is my cpu is a little slow for this card? From what I understand this card easily overclocks to 7950gt speeds which would be faster then a x1950pro agp.

As far as I know, the X1950 PRO outperforms the 7900GS, 7900GT and trade blows with the 7950GT, so if you overclock the X1950 PRO, a nice performing card you will have. And the Radeon is better running particularly in heavy shader games and lots of anti aliasing and Aniso, more info here. http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics....elx=33&model1=607&model2=581&chart=207 and http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics....elx=33&model1=607&model2=581&chart=199 Even though in this one the X1950 PRO trails a bit behind of the 7950GT, all this happens in stock, so overclocking a X1950 PRO will give you more gains than overclocking a 7800GS + Bliss.

 

[happy medium]

I'm tired of waiting for the x1950pro. Now realease date Jan 15, 2007.
I want something before the new year. But thanks for the info.!


Edit: Well it looks true

Decided to goto the horse's mouth so to speak. Called Sapphire USA Sales Office and I asked them 3 things regarding the X1950 Pro AGP.

Number of Pipes = 12 Pipes
Amount of GDDR3 = 256MB

When? = The card has been delayed until the end of December, beginning of January.

 

[evolucion8]

Originally posted by: happy medium
I'm tired of waiting for the x1950pro. Now realease date Jan 15, 2007.
I want something before the new year. But thanks for the info.!


Edit: Well it looks true

Decided to goto the horse's mouth so to speak. Called Sapphire USA Sales Office and I asked them 3 things regarding the X1950 Pro AGP.

Number of Pipes = 12 Pipes
Amount of GDDR3 = 256MB

When? = The card has been delayed until the end of December, beginning of January.

Yeah, I want that card, there's 512MB versions on www.zipzoomfly.com and cost barely 10 to 30 bucks more but they are at stock speeds. But they are out of stock, I hate to wait but for the sake of good investment, sacrifices has to be made

 

[happy medium]

bump
Any more input I have about 5 days till I purchase it.

 

[postmortemIA]

how about you share link with us so we can consider buying it too.

 

[Conky]

You'd be better off getting an ASRock 775Dual-VSTA motherboard, a C2D, and re-using all your old junk(ddr, agp, etc). It would be a far more noticable improvement too.

I went from a P4 Northy 3.06@3.45Ghz(same as yours) with my old X850XT AGP and DDR-pc3200 to the ASRock and it was seriously the best upgrade ever for under $300. Framerates pretty much doubled across the board.

I only recently bought a PCI-E 7900GS and some DDR2 ram so I can move to a real overclocking board(DS3). The downside to the ASRock board is that it doesn't overclock hardly at all but it is a great transitional mobo and is plenty fast at stock.

Just a suggestion. :beer:

 

[Sootymooty]

I got the 7800GS+ for US$450 and it was a fantastic upgrade for me. Pricey, yes - but worth it as it prolonged the life of my AGP system. My current system uses fairly good parts and it would be a shame to 'upgrade' to a PCI-E system that used lesser quality parts for the sake of getting PCI-E.

But if you can wait for the x1950pro I'd say go for that - it's just so annoying that it keeps being delayed! I've had this kind of performance for my AGP system ever since I got that Gainward and ATI is only coming out with something in January? The people that really care about games have gotten a 7800GS+, overclocked the heck out of the 7800GS (16 pipe, normal version) or moved on to PCI-E where there are more choices. It's more or less true.

 

[happy medium]

Originally posted by: postmortemIA
how about you share link with us so we can consider buying it too.

Its a secret only 1 left. If there was more I would post it up on hot deals.

 

[happy medium]

Originally posted by: Beachboy
You'd be better off getting an ASRock 775Dual-VSTA motherboard, a C2D, and re-using all your old junk(ddr, agp, etc). It would be a far more noticable improvement too.

I went from a P4 Northy 3.06@3.45Ghz(same as yours) with my old X850XT AGP and DDR-pc3200 to the ASRock and it was seriously the best upgrade ever for under $300. Framerates pretty much doubled across the board.

I only recently bought a PCI-E 7900GS and some DDR2 ram so I can move to a real overclocking board(DS3). The downside to the ASRock board is that it doesn't overclock hardly at all but it is a great transitional mobo and is plenty fast at stock.

Just a suggestion. :beer:

I would love to but I'd rather do a full system upgrade with Vista, r600?,8800 refresh,TRue quad core,(not just 2 duo"s together), in April/May next year (my birthday present to myself) when there some good games to use all that power.

Thanks for you input keep em comming.:beer: