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Opinions... Worth the money for upgrade?

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Originally posted by: gregom
Sweet... This sounds like the deal for me. A compromize in screen size, performance, but with the advantage of widescreen, and a decent price ($490 or so I last saw this monitor on Dell a week ago). Sticking in a new video card will help... and I've been wanting to go back to nVidia for a while, something about the ATi drivers piss me off. And their multi-monitor support has issues.

So since 64 bit processing and the new PCI-E video cards are not all yet 'mature'... it would be best to hold off a while until they do. Save money and effort. I think this will work...

BTW... Any other ideas/suggestions on video card? Or stick with the 6800GT? I'm willing to go up, or better yet, down on the price a bit if I can get a bit more performance, especially in UT2003/2004. Farcry and HL2 is my other main games. But I don't really have any performance issues that bug me much at all.

Hmmm I think this may be my ticket here. I can do this for under $1000. Nice...
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It's not exactly that they're not "mature", it's just that PCI-E won't magically give you more performance over AGP. However, things are looking to move in that direction (and I'm going to upgrade to a system with PCI-E later this year), but for buying current cards it's a non-issue IMO. As for 64-bit...the Athlon 64 is substantially faster than the Athlon XP, but that has almost nothing to do with its 64-bit capabilities.

Anyways, yes, the 2005FPW is a sweet monitor, and I highly recommend it. The 6800GT is probably the best high-end deal in the AGP world - the ATI X800XL is quite good too, but in AGP it's not that much cheaper than the 6800GT enough to recommend it.
 
Ahhh... I see... Forgive me, as I said I haven't been keeping up on the technology well enough. Good info to know.

I just checked... and maybe I was crazy, but I swear that monitor was about $490 a week ago. Now it's $591.75 (25% off too). Maybe I was looking at something else, but I'm pretty sure it was that one. Odd... need to look around for some deals...
 
Originally posted by: gregom
Ahhh... I see... Forgive me, as I said I haven't been keeping up on the technology well enough. Good info to know.

I just checked... and maybe I was crazy, but I swear that monitor was about $490 a week ago. Now it's $591.75 (25% off too). Maybe I was looking at something else, but I'm pretty sure it was that one. Odd... need to look around for some deals...
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Yeah...definitely keep your eye on the Hot Deals forum. I think there was a deal within the last month where the 2005FPW was like $360. :Q

Check different deal sites too and look for Dell coupons. :thumbsup:
 
Awesome... I think that's what I'm gonna do. Thx a bunch for the help, really appreciated. Now what should I get first? hehe...
 
Yeah... I ain't crazy. It WAS $486.... Bastards. I may just get the video card first, then when the price on the monitor drops to an 'acceptable' level I'll buy it. Frankly I could buy it right now, but if I can get it for ~$150 less just waiting a week, I'll do it!
 
Originally posted by: gregom
Awesome... I think that's what I'm gonna do. Thx a bunch for the help, really appreciated. Now what should I get first? hehe...
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No problem...they've been going a little ban-happy in the OT forum lately, so I figured I'd seek refuge in the more technical forums here for a while and try to be helpful where I can. 😛

Assuming you can find a good deal on the monitor soon, I'd go ahead and buy that first, and then the video card. I would think that the 6800GT wouldn't get you that much of a boost at only 1280x1024.

Edit: And you will love 1680x1050 in Windows. 😉
 
Wonder how long it will be for the price to drop on that monitor... Could be a few weeks. I think I'll just buy the card now. Sure it may not help a ton, but I have $500 burning in my pocket, and I need to fuel my need to buy something... lol. Maybe that a new mouse too, been drooling over that MX1000.

In all honestly I think video card first would be better that what when I do get the monitor, I can jump right up to the res I want without a performance decrease.

😛
 
Originally posted by: gregom
Wonder how long it will be for the price to drop on that monitor... Could be a few weeks. I think I'll just buy the card now. Sure it may not help a ton, but I have $500 burning in my pocket, and I need to fuel my need to buy something... lol. Maybe that a new mouse too, been drooling over that MX1000.

In all honestly I think video card first would be better that what when I do get the monitor, I can jump right up to the res I want without a performance decrease.

😛
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Eh, either way you can't really go wrong I guess. 😛
 
Originally posted by: gregom
I'm liking this card here.... http://www2.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150073

Only one with Dual DVI... Nice... A 20.1" widescreen LCD and a 17" LCD both on DVI... Mmmmmmmm... I can taste the hapiness now. 8)

I this is what I'm gonna do. What do you think?
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That one looks good to me. I :heart: DVI on LCD's....so much so that I spent $70 on the DVI daughtercard for my HDTV tuner so I wouldn't have to run it to my monitor's VGA input. 😛
 
Bam! Done.... $391 total... Not bad, will most likely arrive next Tuesday I'm guessing judging from all other orders I've gotten from Newegg. Ordered a MX1000 laser mouse too. 😀

Yay! Now to save more money for that monitor.
 
Originally posted by: gregom
Bam! Done.... $391 total... Not bad, will most likely arrive next Tuesday I'm guessing judging from all other orders I've gotten from Newegg. Ordered a MX1000 laser mouse too. 😀

Yay! Now to save more money for that monitor.
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I'm sure you'll enjoy your new upgrades. 😀:thumbsup:
 
Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
If you want a less expensive upgrade, you could just get a new videocard.

I'm not sure how power requirements would work for you, but a 6800gt for about $300 would offer you a significant upgrade in games as a fraction of the whole new system cost.
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Just go to Best Buy and buy a x850xt, it's $400-10%=$360-$50 MIR=$310. This is an unbeatable deal.

edit: and that's an agp card.
 
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