Newegg has this: MSI x800 for 165 after a $30 Mail-in Rebate. I will also be purchasing (once I decide on a graphics card) an Venice 3000+ AMD64 in a DFI Lanparty Ultra-D.
Is this a good deal? (x800 vanilla @ 6600GT price?) Also, does anyone know anything about this card? Noise? My current FX5900 sounds like an airplane (when playing games) so most anything is probably an improvement.
I primarily play World of Warcraft (which most anything should support just fine), some Half-life 2, a little FarCry and a little Guild Wars.
Other thing is should I wait to see what graphics card prices do over the next couple weeks or so with the release of the 7800GTX. Should I see what Nvidia comes out for the mainstream market? Or is this too far off (my WoW performance is abysmal (10fps) with more than about 10 or so things around me (CPU bound so the people don't even have to be on the screen).
I bought my brother a couple months ago Leadtek 6600, Winchester 3000+ AMD64 in a DFI Lanparty Ultra-D. He maintains over 20 fps at almost all times. Most everything I've seen is my FX5900 should perform roughly onpar with that 6600 so I'm definatly CPU bound.
The other option is to get an AGP motherboard and upgrade my video card later. I think I'd rather have PCI-e now and possibly be able to upgrade to a mainstream r520/G70 with a dual core if they ever go mainstream.
On the horizon I plan to buy Neverwinter Nights 2 which will use SM3.0 at Q4 2006. This might lean me towards a 6600GT but I figured that its SM3.0 performance would be pretty abysmal and such pointless.
Well HOPEFULLY someone will actually read all this unorganized information and give me an informed opinion. One can always hope.
Thanks in advance.
Is this a good deal? (x800 vanilla @ 6600GT price?) Also, does anyone know anything about this card? Noise? My current FX5900 sounds like an airplane (when playing games) so most anything is probably an improvement.
I primarily play World of Warcraft (which most anything should support just fine), some Half-life 2, a little FarCry and a little Guild Wars.
Other thing is should I wait to see what graphics card prices do over the next couple weeks or so with the release of the 7800GTX. Should I see what Nvidia comes out for the mainstream market? Or is this too far off (my WoW performance is abysmal (10fps) with more than about 10 or so things around me (CPU bound so the people don't even have to be on the screen).
I bought my brother a couple months ago Leadtek 6600, Winchester 3000+ AMD64 in a DFI Lanparty Ultra-D. He maintains over 20 fps at almost all times. Most everything I've seen is my FX5900 should perform roughly onpar with that 6600 so I'm definatly CPU bound.
The other option is to get an AGP motherboard and upgrade my video card later. I think I'd rather have PCI-e now and possibly be able to upgrade to a mainstream r520/G70 with a dual core if they ever go mainstream.
On the horizon I plan to buy Neverwinter Nights 2 which will use SM3.0 at Q4 2006. This might lean me towards a 6600GT but I figured that its SM3.0 performance would be pretty abysmal and such pointless.
Well HOPEFULLY someone will actually read all this unorganized information and give me an informed opinion. One can always hope.
Thanks in advance.
This seems like a good deal. One last look for input!
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