Upgrading my 6800 vanilla?

[ddviper]

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?

 

[akshayt]

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

 

[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.

 

[hans030390]

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.

 

[Captante]

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.

This is very good advice.