Video card upgrade?

[Lothar1974]

I saw this card listed on the Hot Deals forum (Sapphire ATI Radeon HD3850 512MB DDR3 2DVI AGP Video Card) Wondering if it is worth it to upgrade? I currently have a BFG NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT OC 256MB. Any help is greatly appreciated!! I play a descent amount of games and do alot of picture and video editing. Thanks!!!!!!!!!!

Here are my current Specs:

Intel Intel Pentium 4/ 3.2C GHz 800MHz FSB, 512K Cache 3200MHz
Motherboard: Asus P4P800D-E Deluxe
Memory: 4056 MB of Corsair Twinx2048-3200c2pt
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT BGF
Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 8MB Cache SATA 250.0 GB @ 7200 RPMS

 

[JPB]

Yes it is worth the upgrade, The card should be almost 3 times faster than your current card. Although you may be bottlenecked a little.

 

[Denithor]

Bottlenecked a fair bit by that Netburst single-core but should still help your game performance, especially if you play at higher resolutions.

 

[Lothar1974]

I play games at 1280 x 1024 as this is as high as my monitor can read. I play FEAR, COD4, Unreal Tournament 2007, Half Life 2, Time Shift and a few older lower end games.
My current card is pretty good, I usually play at the highest settings. I do get a slow down on certain games wen there is alot of action going on, especially in FEAR. Would this perform alot better and not have slow downs? Thanks!

 

[Denithor]

Tomshardware FEAR benchmark: single vs dual vs faster dual cpus

If you look at those benchmarks, at 12x10 with an X2 4200 you're pretty much GPU bound (frame/sec don't increase much moving to dual core and then to faster dual core so cpu has little effect). A 3850 will be about equal to an 8800GS. Should be a nice upgrade for you!