6800 oc still worthy?

[imported_SC4RF4C3]

my set consists of...
amd 64 3700
ga-k8u-939
2 gigs of ram
bfg 6800 oc AGP

I play quite a few games and not sure if my card is some what of a bottle neck or is the whole system.

Anywya if I wanted to upgrade which card is out there that would give me a nice boost as far as video goes?

 

[LittleNemoNES]

x1950 Pro AGP

http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/pow..._radeon_x1950_pro_agp_review/page4.asp

 

[imported_SC4RF4C3]

wow and thats the 6800 ultra mine is the simple 6800.
that card is quite high priced for an AGP card, would it be better to wait until I can upgrade my whole machine to pci-e ?

I have been trying to just get this machine to go another year or so.

 

[imported_SC4RF4C3]

any other advice?
also would an X1300 be better?

 

[AVP]

Check here for performance comparisons

http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics.html

 

[BassBomb]

Originally posted by: SC4RF4C3
any other advice?
also would an X1300 be better?

X1300 would be a horrendous downgrade

stick to what you have, it should be fine for another year @ 1024 w/ med/low settings on new games

 

[beggerking]

keep your current setup, 6800 is not bad..

when r600 midrange/8800 midrange come out, upgrade your platform to pci-e.

 

[imported_blacken]

Make sure it's not an XT equivelent with crippled pipelines The XT preforms close to a x1300 actualy n' the OC won't help it if it is. Yet if it's a GT or GS equal, it would be quite a worthy card.

 

[Cookie Monster]

A 7600GS AGP is around 5~15% faster than the 6600GT AGP. I would suspect that the 7600GS is faster than the 6800OC.

You could look for used cards like 6800GT AGP/X800XL etc.

 

[yiranhu]

7600 is probably slower than 6800 because of the configuration (# of pipelines and so on). Isn't the second number in the name a symbol of class while first number a generation. i.e. 6800 is a older generation of 7800 and 6600 older generation of 7600? Thus despite the 7 to 6 advantage, 6800 might still outperform 7600?

 

[Cookie Monster]

Originally posted by: yiranhu
7600 is probably slower than 6800 because of the configuration (# of pipelines and so on). Isn't the second number in the name a symbol of class while first number a generation. i.e. 6800 is a older generation of 7800 and 6600 older generation of 7600? Thus despite the 7 to 6 advantage, 6800 might still outperform 7600?

Firstly the 7600GT is 10~20% faster than the 6800 ultra in newer games.
The 7600GS, although being crippled with a slower core speed and memory speed it still faster than the 6600GT AGP by 5~15%. A 6600GT was equal to performance with the 6800nu most the time if not faster due to the GDDR3 configuration.

The number of pipelines may matter etc but the 6 series "pipeline" differs with the 7 series "pipeline". There are many more architectural changes that make the 7 series more efficent than the 6 series.

 

[BassBomb]

Isn't the 7600GS 12 pipe anyways? So wouldn't that equal a 6800 already.

 

[imported_SC4RF4C3]

my card is just a plain bfg 6800 OC not a gt or ultra.
http://www.bfgtech.com/6800OC.html this is mine.

 

[Mloot]

Have you tried unlocking the pipelines?

 

[imported_SC4RF4C3]

I did once before and I opened all of them and got some artifacts, I read also you can open some instead of all, havent tried that yet.

 

[Wolfshanze]

Don't bother with the 6600GT or 6800GS... neither is much of an upgrade from the 6800nu.

If you really want to upgrade your AGP card, about the best bang-for-buck upgrade you could do now that would give you a boost in newer games is the 7600GT.

 

[PorscheMaD911]

Originally posted by: Wolfshanze
Don't bother with the 6600GT or 6800GS... neither is much of an upgrade from the 6800nu.

If you really want to upgrade your AGP card, about the best bang-for-buck upgrade you could do now that would give you a boost in newer games is the 7600GT.

Yep, I agree. I used to have a 6800, but gave it to my brother and replaced it with a $20 Geforce 2 MX (switched to Linux for a year or so).

I just bought a 7600 GT last week, and it's a decent upgrade from what I remember of the 6800 performance. It's not really a night and day difference in older games though.