Radeon 9800 Pro died..while I am upgrading, do you think this would help?

[tydas]

Hi, my 9800 recently died, have a 9500 pro until i get a new card. I am thinking of getting a 6800GS but are there any good ATI options? Also, I have two sticks of 512mb and was thinking of adding two more for a toal of 4 512 sticks, would that make a difference?

I want to keep the same mb and stuff and would like to avoid a clean install..other components:

Albatron 845
200 GB WD
SB Audigy
Assorted DVD drives
P4 2.4C

 

[Ricemarine]

X800GTO2 is an ATI option.

 

[imported_Dvesilly]

Here is another one, lots cheaper, but no where near the performance of the x800. I would go with two 1 gig sticks instead of four 512 meg sticks. Performance would suffer with four sticks. I don't think they would run dual channel.



http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102677

 

[tydas]

TY for the feedback..i wanted to try and keep my two 512 sticks but i could just ebay them...

 

[WobbleWobble]

If it just died on you, maybe you could warranty your card?

It's not an AMD64 so he won't have to worry about the 1T/2T issues with 4 sticks. You might actually get slightly better performance with 4x512MB than 2x1GB. 4x512MB would run in dual channel.

 

[tydas]

HHmmm...I bought the card over two years ago and can't find the reciept or anything..but i just looked at ATI site and they don't need the receipt..i think i will try that...

 

[Budman]

https://apps.ati.com/rma/rma.html