New AGP card

[gutta]

A family member wants to start playing World Of Warcraft. They only have an Athlon 2400+ with 768MB ram and onboard video.

I took the BFG 6800OC out of my Shuttle (Athlon 3000+, 1mb ram) computer and loaded up World Of Warcraft on their system and it ran suprisingly well.

I plan on giving them the 6800OC but I need to replace the video card in my Shuttle. I am an occasional gamer who only plays WoW, CS: Source, and CS: DoD.

My 6800OC ran fine and I do not want to spend over $150. Should I just buy another 6800OC or should I move to a 7600GS? Since I have a Shuttle and only a 250w power supply, does the 7 series require more power? My 6800OC never gave me any power problems in my Shuttle.

Maybe I should just keep the 6800OC in my Shuttle and buy them a new video card?

Any opinions?

 

[Cookie Monster]

A 7600GS should be as fast as your 6800OC while consuming less power. It would be abit smaller as well. (in terms of PCB length)

 

[swtethan]

an ATI would get better frames on source engine

 

[gutta]

I've never owned an ATI card, only Nvidia. No good reason I guess. I use ATI laptops at work and I really don't care for the ATI control panels.

All the benchmarks that I've seen show the 6800 beating out the 7600 gs. I am not sure which flavor the BFG 6800 OC is. I know it is not an Ultra or a GT. Would it be similar to the XT?

 

[Cooler]

Right now if you have the cash the x1950pro AGP is the best agp card out.

 

[gutta]

Thanks for the suggestion but thats a little out of my budget.

I was really happy with my 6800OC with the games I play. Since I gave the card away, I just planned on buying another 6800OC.

I thought since I was buying a new card, maybe I should move up to the 7 series. The 7600gs is the same price as the 6800OC.

I am not looking for an upgrade, just a similar performing video card.

I will move to PCI-Express when I upgrade my system in the summer/fall.

I am leaning towards the Gigabyte 7600GS. It is a fanless card and I do some audio production. The 6800OC was rather noisy and this would be a nice feature. I'm just hoping it will give the same performance as the 6800OC.

Thanks!

 

[evolucion8]

Originally posted by: gutta
Thanks for the suggestion but thats a little out of my budget.

I was really happy with my 6800OC with the games I play. Since I gave the card away, I just planned on buying another 6800OC.

I thought since I was buying a new card, maybe I should move up to the 7 series. The 7600gs is the same price as the 6800OC.

I am not looking for an upgrade, just a similar performing video card.

I will move to PCI-Express when I upgrade my system in the summer/fall.

I am leaning towards the Gigabyte 7600GS. It is a fanless card and I do some audio production. The 6800OC was rather noisy and this would be a nice feature. I'm just hoping it will give the same performance as the 6800OC.

Thanks!

The 7600GS shoud run as fast as a vanilla 6800, but since the one you own is overclocked, you should then get the 7600GS and overclocked, or buy it pre overclocked, or go to the 7600GT which is a bit faster than the 6800 Ultra.

 

[gutta]

Thanks for all of the responses. I decided to spend a little more and go with an XFX 7600GT AGP. I didn't want to get the 7600GS and then find out it was actually slower than my 6800 OC.

I picked it up at Newegg and should be getting it in a couple of days. It sucks that the PCI-E is much much cheaper for the same card. 🙁

 

[Captante]

Originally posted by: gutta
Thanks for all of the responses. I decided to spend a little more and go with an XFX 7600GT AGP. I didn't want to get the 7600GS and then find out it was actually slower than my 6800 OC.

I picked it up at Newegg and should be getting it in a couple of days. It sucks that the PCI-E is much much cheaper for the same card. 🙁

Good choice & you should be pleased ... the GT is about the same performance as a 6800 Ultra but will run a lot cooler & quieter.

 

[Roguestar]

Try looking for a X850 XT PE. They should still be floating about in small numbers.