worth upgrading from 6800gt to 7800gs?

[evolucion8]

Is quite interesting seeing many people saying their 6800GT/Ultra GPUS died, Do nVidia did something to make those GPU's last only a couple of years? I have almost 2 years with my card and I haven't gotten any problem with it (Though is a poor overclocker) and I haven't seen many people with dying X8X0 GPU's, most of them are X850 (Ironic because it's optimized silicon allows to reach higher clocks than the original R420 silicon)

 

[hans007]

yuou might as well bite the bullet and get a new board.


its just not worth it. a 7800gs is probably only barely faster than a 7600gt pci-e since it only has 16 pipes.

if you could get a 20 or 24 pipe 7800gs agp if they exist it might be worthwhile, but still might as well bite the bullet, since those cards are going to be expensive and a 7900gt pcie is going to be cheaper than either as well.