Which video card

[ShmooDude]

There's an OEM X800 for $189 which is not too much more than the Leadtek 6600GT at $169 that I was planning to get. Will the X800 be any kind of significant boost?

EDIT - One thing I forgot to mention was this was a 128MB model of an X800 which is probably why it is a lot cheaper. Pretty much any and all benchmarks I've seen using an X800 were of the 256MB model which of course would likely give it advantages at higher resolutions, does this change any of your conclusions?

Also this is X800 Vanilla, not an XL so it has 300 MHz less mem speed and 4 less pipelines. Though from just a statistical point of view 392*12 = 4704 vs 500 * 8 = 4000 which is (not the correct, but right ratio of the) fill rate right? 700 * 256 = 179k vs 1000 * 128 = 128k. So all other things being equal its an 18% faster GPU and 40% more memory bandwidth.

Anyone know anything about the noise generated from the sapphire card?

 

[Amplifier]

Get two 6800u's and SLI them.

 

[ShmooDude]

Yeah... my family is losing something like 20-40k/year (for various reasons I won't go into) and I'm gonna splurge and get an SLI setup.... I got a hard enough time convincing them to let me get A64 3000+ DFI Lanparty + Graphics Cards which is gonna come out to about $550 or so, so I'd appreciate a serious reply please.

 

[Extraordinary Cow]

I'd go for the X800, it'll probably give a bit more performance and last a bit longer....good luck through the financial problems.

 

[Amplifier]

Tell your family to put them on a CC before they file for bankruptcy

 

[akshayt]

though in doom3 your performance may not be as good.
compare 6600gt to x800xl in doom3

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/video/display/2004-27gpu2.html

 

[Regs]

1. 6800 128 MBs -http://www.chiefvalue.com/app/productdetails.asp?item=14-130-202

or the X800. The X800 beats out the 6600GT in everything except D3.

Far cry, UT2k4, Halo, Battlefield Vietnam..ext... all but a good margin of at least 5-10 FPS @ 1600x1200 resolution.

 

[kurt454]

Go X800.

 

[ShmooDude]

Added much more information, shoulda been way more informative And added a poll just for snicks (there aren't any rules about posting polls are there? if there are I'm sorry)

 

[ShmooDude]

Once more to the top

 

[johnnq]

the x800 has 12 pipelines and im pretty sure the 6600gt has less. go with the x800

 

[ddogg]

Originally posted by: ShmooDude
There's an OEM X800 for $189 which is not too much more than the Leadtek 6600GT at $169 that I was planning to get. Will the X800 be any kind of significant boost?

EDIT - One thing I forgot to mention was this was a 128MB model of an X800 which is probably why it is a lot cheaper. Pretty much any and all benchmarks I've seen using an X800 were of the 256MB model which of course would likely give it advantages at higher resolutions, does this change any of your conclusions?

Also this is X800 Vanilla, not an XL so it has 300 MHz less mem speed and 4 less pipelines. Though from just a statistical point of view 392*12 = 4704 vs 500 * 8 = 4000 which is (not the correct, but right ratio of the) fill rate right? 700 * 256 = 179k vs 1000 * 128 = 128k. So all other things being equal its an 18% faster GPU and 40% more memory bandwidth.

Anyone know anything about the noise generated from the sapphire card?

since they are close in price i would choose the X800 anyday over the 6600GT....it pretty much stomps the GT in all games xcept Doom3

 

[ddogg]

Originally posted by: johnnq
the x800 has 12 pipelines and im pretty sure the 6600gt has less. go with the x800

the GT has 8 pipes so thats one of the main reasons as to why it looses out to the X800Vanilla