Hi,
I'm building a cheap comp (S754 with PCI-e) and I wanted to know if the PowerColor X800GTO 128MB is a good card for it... Do keep in mind that I live in Belgium (and hardware is quite expensive here), so don't give me any links on Newegg etc... (that only makes me cry...
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This is the card I am talking about, it has the standard DDR1, but with its 256-bit memory bus, that gives it already a decent amount of bandwidth I'd say... Does anyone know what core this possibly could be, and if this DDR1 overclocks well too...?
The price is approx. $ 180, I know that you can get better cards in the States for that money, but here the cheapest X800GTO 256MB is already $ 225... A 6800GS is a no-go too, because here it costs at least $ 310... I know, it's sad...
The only cards I can get at that price point are a 128MB 6600GT (not even a vanilla 6800), or a 256MB X800GT... With its extra pipelines and some overclocking, the GTO will probably outperform them both... Not?
Seeing that this is going to be a budget gaming comp, the $ 180 (? 155) is really the highest I can go...
And I still had another question, is there still some life in it, and I mean with Pixel Shader 2.0b... I know it supports up to 1.536 instructions (I know too that Far Cry and HL2 maximum only have some 60 instructions), but the upcoming Unreal Engine 3 should already take up to 1.000 instructions... I know I will have to turn everything down, but the question is how long I am still going to manage to "play" games with this PS 2.0b... How many years do I have...?
Thanks a lot!
I'm building a cheap comp (S754 with PCI-e) and I wanted to know if the PowerColor X800GTO 128MB is a good card for it... Do keep in mind that I live in Belgium (and hardware is quite expensive here), so don't give me any links on Newegg etc... (that only makes me cry...
)This is the card I am talking about, it has the standard DDR1, but with its 256-bit memory bus, that gives it already a decent amount of bandwidth I'd say... Does anyone know what core this possibly could be, and if this DDR1 overclocks well too...?
The price is approx. $ 180, I know that you can get better cards in the States for that money, but here the cheapest X800GTO 256MB is already $ 225... A 6800GS is a no-go too, because here it costs at least $ 310... I know, it's sad...
The only cards I can get at that price point are a 128MB 6600GT (not even a vanilla 6800), or a 256MB X800GT... With its extra pipelines and some overclocking, the GTO will probably outperform them both... Not?
Seeing that this is going to be a budget gaming comp, the $ 180 (? 155) is really the highest I can go...
And I still had another question, is there still some life in it, and I mean with Pixel Shader 2.0b... I know it supports up to 1.536 instructions (I know too that Far Cry and HL2 maximum only have some 60 instructions), but the upcoming Unreal Engine 3 should already take up to 1.000 instructions... I know I will have to turn everything down, but the question is how long I am still going to manage to "play" games with this PS 2.0b... How many years do I have...?
Thanks a lot!
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