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Upgrading my 6800 vanilla?

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ddviper

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I was thinking about upgrading my 2 year old 6800. It runs games pretty well at good settings and I'm pretty pleased with it. But then i get to hearing about the x1900's and 7900's and that gets my mouth watering.

The only thought I had against this was the thought of DX10 and how Ill need to upgrade the card anyways.

So my question is, should I upgrade now to a faster DX9 card? If so should I stick to my favorite NVIDIA or go with ATI's x1900 series? Or should I jsut wait for the DX10 cards to surface and purchase one then?
 
then you will need to upgrade the entire system with dx10 unless you all already have dual core 4400 types of higher.
if you can upgrade card in next 6-12 months, again, then go with radeon 1900xt or cheaper 1800xt solutions
 
More importantly, are you on AGP or PCI-E?

If AGP, then I would sit tight for a bit longer. There isn't much sense in going with a higher-end AGP card as they are priced at a premium now. I would at least wait until Conroe is out and evaluate at that time whether you want to get a new CPU/mobo/PCI-E card or just migrate you cpu (if this is a K8 already) into a new mobo and PCI-E card.

If you are already on PCI-E , then a 7900GT on the Nvidia side, or an X1800XT or even X1900XT on the ATI side would all be good choices without breaking the bank.
 
If it's an AGP 6800, can you unlock the pipelines on it?

If so...would you consider selling it to me for a good price?

if it is AGP, you'll have to get a new mobo. If not, you're good.

If you're content right now, just wait for DX10 to come around.
 
Originally posted by: aka1nas
More importantly, are you on AGP or PCI-E?

If AGP, then I would sit tight for a bit longer. There isn't much sense in going with a higher-end AGP card as they are priced at a premium now. I would at least wait until Conroe is out and evaluate at that time whether you want to get a new CPU/mobo/PCI-E card or just migrate you cpu (if this is a K8 already) into a new mobo and PCI-E card.

If you are already on PCI-E , then a 7900GT on the Nvidia side, or an X1800XT or even X1900XT on the ATI side would all be good choices without breaking the bank.
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This is very good advice.
 
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