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So I am buying a new VCard. X800XT vs 6800GT

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PVD

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I am buying a new system and am trying to decide between these 2 cards. I know the 6800 can OC to Ultra speeds in most scenarios, but can the x800XT OC to PE speeds?? Anybody out there with a XT tahn can comment?? I know I can score the GT for around $400 and an XT for around $450. I am upgrading from a 9700 pro. I will not be playing that much Doom3, but maybe a game in the future that has its engine?? I am looking for the best card after it is OCd. $400-$450 is pretty comparable prices. Thanks for your input in advance guys.

PVD
 
u can get a xt for 450 AGP. i would say get the x800xt but i am a ati fan myself whatever u decide dont go buy what people say i have used a gt and a x800xt. the x800xt is alot clearer and more detail it might not get as much frames but i would rather have quality and 20 frames more the xt can play anygame out fine. i dont know why u would oc a x800xt.

here is the link for the x800xt's that is 450 and a little more

http://www.newegg.com/app/View...=14-102-397&depa=0
http://www.newegg.com/app/View...=14-142-030&depa=0
http://www.newegg.com/app/View...=14-102-423&depa=0
http://www.newegg.com/app/View...=14-131-289&depa=0
i would check newegg out some more but those are some i just saw they keep going up and up in price as i go so i just stopped there. read some reviews on which ones overclock the best if you are going to overclock a 500 dollar card. just dont make your card turn into ashes
 
get the 6800GT, you would have to be stupid to get the X800XT, the 6800GT kills the X800XT by far in EVERYTHING!.....theres no more to say. Go read the reviews every shows the 6800GT beats the X800XT plus you can overclock/flash it to 6800 ultra....what more do you want...go buy it!
 
yeh ok thats hl2.... thats like doom3 for ati, but overall nvidia wins and is the king at moment. you can still run hl2 perfect at maxed out settings on a 6800gt
 
I say x800xt. Lots of games will come out on source engine, or at least a lot more than doom 3 engine I am guessing. x800xt will outpeform 6800gt in basically all games except for openGL games, like doom3 and call of duty.
 
Originally posted by: AssyrianKing
get the 6800GT, you would have to be stupid to get the X800XT, the 6800GT kills the X800XT by far in EVERYTHING!.....theres no more to say. Go read the reviews every shows the 6800GT beats the X800XT plus you can overclock/flash it to 6800 ultra....what more do you want...go buy it!
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Ummm... No. The 6800GT definately DOES NOT beat the X800XT by far in everything. Quite the contrary, in fact. And you say that you can overclock the 6800GT, you can also overclock the X800XT too (not sure what the point is for such fast cards, though)
 
Originally posted by: Sc4freak
Originally posted by: AssyrianKing
get the 6800GT, you would have to be stupid to get the X800XT, the 6800GT kills the X800XT by far in EVERYTHING!.....theres no more to say. Go read the reviews every shows the 6800GT beats the X800XT plus you can overclock/flash it to 6800 ultra....what more do you want...go buy it!
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Ummm... No. The 6800GT definately DOES NOT beat the X800XT by far in everything. Quite the contrary, in fact. And you say that you can overclock the 6800GT, you can also overclock the X800XT too (not sure what the point is for such fast cards, though)
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it does
 
If it's between an X800XT and a 6800 GT I would say the XT is going to be the faster card in most cases. Keep in mind you're comparing ATI's top dog to Nvidia's 2nd best card. A better race would be a X800XT versus the 6800 Ultra.

What it all comes down to is what games to you play? If you play more OpenGL games Nvidia is going to be faster and if you play more DirectX games the ATI card will be faster. After seeing both HL2 and UT2004 (DX games) versus Doom3 (OpenGL) I think I'd buy the ATI card - and I own a BFG 6800GT. 🙂
 
The X800XT is a faster card is most games, especially HL2 and Source. The X800 line also does extremely well in shader intensive games, better than their 6800 counterparts. Might change though when more games support SM3 though.

I'd probably get the X800XT if prices were close, like they are.
 
ssyrianKing

The only thing the 6800GT beats the x800XT in is doom3 get your facts straight before posting. the 6800GT is pretty much the same as the x800pro maybe a little better but not by much at all, and the x800pro is better at hl2 then the 6800GT. You better start reading some reviews

Bateluer
SM3 is useless, the performance gain is pretty much the same when implimenting 3dc on the x800's so its pretty much equal
 
I just barely sold my 6800GT for an X800XT PE and I had a chance to try them both out in a few games. I did benchmarks with FarCry, UT2004, and HL2. The X800XT was faster in all the games when all the eye-candy was turned up, and frankly, who pays $400+ for a video card and doesn't turn up the eye-candy? I even oced the GT to Ultra speeds and the X800XT was still faster. In FarCry it was only a few frames ahead, but in both UT2004 and HL2 it was considerably faster.

Here is a link to some HL2 benchmarks I ran:
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...446603&STARTPAGE=1

Like other people have said, it really depends on which game you want to play. I was very happy with my 6800GT and it would play most games at max eye-candy. It would definetely thrash my X800XT at Doom3 so if that's our main game I'd say go for the GT. About any other new popular game though I'd say go for the X800XT.
 
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